Hogg's Weekly Instructor, Volúmenes1-2J. Hogg, 1845 |
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... possessed over others was mingled something between intellectual power and moral depravity . From of misery and debasement . He was sprung from a house , the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics , ancient indeed and noble ...
... possessed over others was mingled something between intellectual power and moral depravity . From of misery and debasement . He was sprung from a house , the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics , ancient indeed and noble ...
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... possessed by those around him , only serve to provoke his resentment to- wards them , and call forth his slanders . He is a moral assassin ; and , if character be more sacred than life , the malign traducer of it is every way as ...
... possessed by those around him , only serve to provoke his resentment to- wards them , and call forth his slanders . He is a moral assassin ; and , if character be more sacred than life , the malign traducer of it is every way as ...
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... possessed the vision and the faculty divine , and whose prose has all the eloquence , all the feeling , all the imagery , and much of the melody of rhythmical com- position , the Taylors , the Burkes , the Fosters , the Halls , the ...
... possessed the vision and the faculty divine , and whose prose has all the eloquence , all the feeling , all the imagery , and much of the melody of rhythmical com- position , the Taylors , the Burkes , the Fosters , the Halls , the ...
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... possessed of this mighty agent . It preserves the balance of power ; and so long as they maintain a good understanding with each other , it secures the peace of the world . What would a Napoleon or a Nelson have done - what tactics ...
... possessed of this mighty agent . It preserves the balance of power ; and so long as they maintain a good understanding with each other , it secures the peace of the world . What would a Napoleon or a Nelson have done - what tactics ...
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... possessed . Happy days of virtue and industry ! But in this world , where the wicked have their inheritance as well as the good , even virtue and industry cannot always prosper . Were all mankind vir- tous , earth would be heaven , and ...
... possessed . Happy days of virtue and industry ! But in this world , where the wicked have their inheritance as well as the good , even virtue and industry cannot always prosper . Were all mankind vir- tous , earth would be heaven , and ...
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Página 47 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Página 32 - There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. "Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
Página 46 - But the grave of those we loved, — what a place for meditation ! There it is that we call up in long review the whole history of virtue and gentleness, and the thousand endearments lavished upon us almost unheeded in the daily intercourse of intimacy ; there it is that we dwell upon the tenderness, the solemn, awful tenderness, of the parting scene.
Página 304 - Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a" that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A Man's a Man for a
Página 32 - Where is the child that would willingly forget the most tender of parents, though to remember be but to lament? Who, even in the hour of agony, would forget the friend over whom he mourns?
Página 46 - ... if thou art a lover and hast ever given one unmerited pang to that true heart which now lies cold and still beneath thy feet — then be sure that every unkind look, every ungracious word, every ungentle action, will come thronging back upon thy memory, and knocking dolefully at thy soul...
Página 62 - But, guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those, to whom nothing could give influence or weight, but their power of betraying.
Página 46 - Ay, go to the grave of buried love, and meditate ! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited, every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never — never — never return to be soothed by thy contrition...
Página 132 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Página 83 - Annals of Great Britain, from the Accession of George III. to the Peace of Amiens...