Political FameWilliam Pickering, 1847 - 99 páginas |
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... holy zeal . To fight was the belle passion of that bloody age ; and the first Crusade was certainly sufficiently sanguinary . Here was work for politicians rather than for a bigoted priest . When the latter think of fighting they are ...
... holy zeal . To fight was the belle passion of that bloody age ; and the first Crusade was certainly sufficiently sanguinary . Here was work for politicians rather than for a bigoted priest . When the latter think of fighting they are ...
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... defend themselves . And Peter the Hermit might have told his beads far better than send an army to the holy wars . We do not absolutely defend the arbitrary conduct of his contemporary , William the Con- queror , 10 POLITICAL FAME .
... defend themselves . And Peter the Hermit might have told his beads far better than send an army to the holy wars . We do not absolutely defend the arbitrary conduct of his contemporary , William the Con- queror , 10 POLITICAL FAME .
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... holy consciousness of a responsible duty when he enters the Houses of Parliament ; not the ambition , not the power , not the littleness ascribed to most men , must always be mixed in his composition from the hour M.P. signs its ...
... holy consciousness of a responsible duty when he enters the Houses of Parliament ; not the ambition , not the power , not the littleness ascribed to most men , must always be mixed in his composition from the hour M.P. signs its ...
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... holy beauty in his death he has so lived as to look forward to a brighter inheritance ; his conscience has echoed language born above ; his sins have been the heir - looms of our first parents ; his virtues have been his own training . A ...
... holy beauty in his death he has so lived as to look forward to a brighter inheritance ; his conscience has echoed language born above ; his sins have been the heir - looms of our first parents ; his virtues have been his own training . A ...
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... faces ? Have ye seen the poor upon a Sabbath day , kneeling in God's holy place of worship , imploring blessings and preparing for another week's honest labour . If it has never been your lot to behold such 62 POLITICAL FAME .
... faces ? Have ye seen the poor upon a Sabbath day , kneeling in God's holy place of worship , imploring blessings and preparing for another week's honest labour . If it has never been your lot to behold such 62 POLITICAL FAME .
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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.