Political FameWilliam Pickering, 1847 - 99 páginas |
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... fall to the ground . Peace would be a greater scourge than war ; and yet a succession of the latter must , by thinning the populace , end in total annihilation . We cannot sufficiently admire the plan of our polished continental ...
... fall to the ground . Peace would be a greater scourge than war ; and yet a succession of the latter must , by thinning the populace , end in total annihilation . We cannot sufficiently admire the plan of our polished continental ...
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... fall to the increasing selfishness of those who put on the deceptive mark of philanthropy . " Oh , thou fair Greece ! by Turkish hands profaned , By Britons plunder'd , and by Moslems chain'd ! " Greece , thy fame was martyred at the ...
... fall to the increasing selfishness of those who put on the deceptive mark of philanthropy . " Oh , thou fair Greece ! by Turkish hands profaned , By Britons plunder'd , and by Moslems chain'd ! " Greece , thy fame was martyred at the ...
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... give free vent to their rebellious disposition . And there is something melancholy when we find men of high ability falling to such a mark . Thus has he reasoned at first : - " I am not a Radical , if men mean RADICALISM . 75.
... give free vent to their rebellious disposition . And there is something melancholy when we find men of high ability falling to such a mark . Thus has he reasoned at first : - " I am not a Radical , if men mean RADICALISM . 75.
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... falling into error , who began their political career with a holy feeling of patriotism at their heart , and are ending by sickening at the ingratitude around them . Thus is life , ingratitude is the reward of merit , and politicians ...
... falling into error , who began their political career with a holy feeling of patriotism at their heart , and are ending by sickening at the ingratitude around them . Thus is life , ingratitude is the reward of merit , and politicians ...
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... falls like rainbow , type of earth's relief , upon the haunts of penury , the eye of memory will consecrate these when the tears which once flowed upon the cold grave of the beloved had ceased to fall . A member of Parliament is , in ...
... falls like rainbow , type of earth's relief , upon the haunts of penury , the eye of memory will consecrate these when the tears which once flowed upon the cold grave of the beloved had ceased to fall . A member of Parliament is , in ...
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Página 45 - The world is still deceived with ornament. In law what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it. and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Página 81 - ... life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity! While vacant hours of beauty roll Their magic o'er some yielded soul, Ah ! little do the happy guess, The sum of human wretchedness ; Or dream, amid the soft farewell That Time of them is taking, How frequent moans the funeral knell, What noble hearts are breaking, While myriads to their tombs descend, Without a mourner, creed, or friend!
Página 81 - A moment is a mighty thing, Beyond the soul's imagining; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot! How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity!
Página 63 - Is there not A mood of glory, when the mind attuned To heaven, can out of dreams create her worlds ?Oh ! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind : When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God...
Página 82 - How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven...
Página 63 - The calm of thought, the melody of mind ! When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away ; The Heavens are open'd ! and the eye of Faith Looks in, and hath a fearful glimpse of God ! HAPPINESS OF HUMBLE LIFE.