The cruet stand, select pieces of prose and poetry, Volumen2 |
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... spirit of Christianity to seek , and can allow themselves to exult and droll over
the errors and frailties of their fellow creatures , which even common humanity
forbids us to think of or mention without the utmost seriousness and compassion .
... spirit of Christianity to seek , and can allow themselves to exult and droll over
the errors and frailties of their fellow creatures , which even common humanity
forbids us to think of or mention without the utmost seriousness and compassion .
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... as well as of the weakness of human reason , I should be very fearful of
pronouncing them absolutely false , ( much less to call them antichristian ,
damnable , & c . , ) their appearing so to me is a sufficient reason for my declaring
my dissent ...
... as well as of the weakness of human reason , I should be very fearful of
pronouncing them absolutely false , ( much less to call them antichristian ,
damnable , & c . , ) their appearing so to me is a sufficient reason for my declaring
my dissent ...
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... their sacred function to very good purposes ; nor discourage us from wishing
and praying for a reformation of those abuses which worldly politicians have
introduced into it . Most people , indeed , who look upon the evil to lie in human
nature ...
... their sacred function to very good purposes ; nor discourage us from wishing
and praying for a reformation of those abuses which worldly politicians have
introduced into it . Most people , indeed , who look upon the evil to lie in human
nature ...
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SONG - BIRDS IN CAPTIVITY . For very many years has our pen been
unceasingly employed in pleading hard for the unrestricted freedom of our sweet
singers among the feathered tribe ; but , alas ! the human heart is a perplexing
curiosity .
SONG - BIRDS IN CAPTIVITY . For very many years has our pen been
unceasingly employed in pleading hard for the unrestricted freedom of our sweet
singers among the feathered tribe ; but , alas ! the human heart is a perplexing
curiosity .
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Yet nature speaks within the human bosom , And spite of reason , bids it look
beyond His narrow verge of being , and provide A decent residence for his clayey
shell , Endear'd to it by time . And who would lay His body in the city burial place
...
Yet nature speaks within the human bosom , And spite of reason , bids it look
beyond His narrow verge of being , and provide A decent residence for his clayey
shell , Endear'd to it by time . And who would lay His body in the city burial place
...
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Página 240 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Página 240 - Out of my grief and my impatience, Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not ; for he made me mad, To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting gentlewoman...
Página 274 - It is easy' in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 238 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 266 - I was ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population.
Página 96 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Página 221 - Then holding the spectacles up to the court — Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is ; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.
Página 291 - My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed Forever.
Página 221 - So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning ; While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship...
Página 238 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.