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Side 37
... truth of the ancient scandal , that The long list of sturdy bachelors above mentioned , is , however , no argument against the marriage of men of genius ; nor yet does it afford any evidence that they deemed themselves disqualified for ...
... truth of the ancient scandal , that The long list of sturdy bachelors above mentioned , is , however , no argument against the marriage of men of genius ; nor yet does it afford any evidence that they deemed themselves disqualified for ...
Side 44
... truth , I have stretched out a good deal to - day , and don't feel inclined to go much farther . I suppose I could not have the bachelor's hole ? " " Quite impossible , " said Urith , with decision . " It is locked up . Besides , we ...
... truth , I have stretched out a good deal to - day , and don't feel inclined to go much farther . I suppose I could not have the bachelor's hole ? " " Quite impossible , " said Urith , with decision . " It is locked up . Besides , we ...
Side 73
... truth , he would gain the ill - will of the owners of pictures and their friends , who , although they might acknowledge that he could himself paint , would declare that he was no judge of other people's pro- ductions . Those who go ...
... truth , he would gain the ill - will of the owners of pictures and their friends , who , although they might acknowledge that he could himself paint , would declare that he was no judge of other people's pro- ductions . Those who go ...
Side 80
... truths which are sa- cred . Rawlinson's Herodotus ought to be named in this connection . In the history and antiquities of Egypt , Sir J. G. Wilkinson is the highest author- ity , and he may be read either in his larger work , Manners ...
... truths which are sa- cred . Rawlinson's Herodotus ought to be named in this connection . In the history and antiquities of Egypt , Sir J. G. Wilkinson is the highest author- ity , and he may be read either in his larger work , Manners ...
Side 87
... truth . It has made the name of Cromwell respected in cir- cles that for generations had named it with contemptuous scorn . It has al- most given Cromwell a statue among Guizot's History of the Revolution of 1848 , and his Cromwell ...
... truth . It has made the name of Cromwell respected in cir- cles that for generations had named it with contemptuous scorn . It has al- most given Cromwell a statue among Guizot's History of the Revolution of 1848 , and his Cromwell ...
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Side 186 - My heart is smitten, and withered like grass ; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Side 442 - For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Side 477 - Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave : Nail to the mast her holy flag. Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!
Side 240 - And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee : Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly ; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Side 501 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Side 36 - I soon discovered that my father would not hear of this strange alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son;* my wound was insensibly/ healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Side 174 - Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Side 502 - If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man...
Side 501 - He is the rock of defence for human nature; an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere with him relationship and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things...
Side 113 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.