The Voyage of the Wenonah: A Tale of the Sea - Fact and FictionC.M. Clark publishing Company, 1909 - 476 sider |
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Side 296 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason like a deadly blight Comes o'er the Councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might! May Life's unblessed cup for him Be...
Side 80 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Side 24 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give ; Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime 's by action dignified.
Side 367 - A person who looked on them only for five minutes might fancy that they were rushing capriciously to and fro. But when he keeps his eye on them for a quarter of an hour, and sees one seamark disappear after another, it is impossible for him to doubt of the general direction in which the ocean is moved. Just such has been the course of events in England.
Side 80 - For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise...
Side 80 - For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, but the foolish things of the world hath God chosen that He may confound the wise, and the weak things of the world hath God chosen that He may confound the strong.
Side 297 - Dead-Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips ! His country's curse, his children's shame, Outcast of virtue, peace, and fame, May he, at last, with lips of flame, On the parch'd desert thirsting die, — While lakes that shone in mockery nigh Are fading...
Side 116 - Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly, 32 But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.
Side 296 - Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned ; repenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and ancients, saying : I have sinned, in betraying innocent blood. But they said : What is that to us ? look thou to it.
Side 367 - We have often thought that the motion of the public mind in our country resembles that of the sea when the tide is rising. Each successive wave rushes forward, breaks, and rolls back ; but the great flood is steadily coming in.