Political FameWilliam Pickering, 1847 - 99 páginas |
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... hour , and eight o'clock , in 1066 , was not the time when the dessert is brought on the table . William the Conqueror felt that law was the only power capable of making subjects the pupil , the sovereign the master ; and as the justice ...
... hour , and eight o'clock , in 1066 , was not the time when the dessert is brought on the table . William the Conqueror felt that law was the only power capable of making subjects the pupil , the sovereign the master ; and as the justice ...
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... hour M.P. signs its contract with power . There are diviner virtues in man's breast , sweeter theories than self , and it is with loathing that liberal minds turn from those biting sarcasms upon man , showing him in his worst light and ...
... hour M.P. signs its contract with power . There are diviner virtues in man's breast , sweeter theories than self , and it is with loathing that liberal minds turn from those biting sarcasms upon man , showing him in his worst light and ...
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... contented smile - the helpless happiness of infancy and young days in all ranks of life . Behold those lovely hours of youth , ere lips have learned sighing , and eyes have shed a tear ; behold the beggar's 38 RESPONSIBILITY . 29.
... contented smile - the helpless happiness of infancy and young days in all ranks of life . Behold those lovely hours of youth , ere lips have learned sighing , and eyes have shed a tear ; behold the beggar's 38 RESPONSIBILITY . 29.
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... hour of calm reflection , when the world is closing , when the dearly- prized joys of earth are retreating dimmer and dimmer down the receding panorama , when the fleeted years seem like some distant ship momentarily bearing further and ...
... hour of calm reflection , when the world is closing , when the dearly- prized joys of earth are retreating dimmer and dimmer down the receding panorama , when the fleeted years seem like some distant ship momentarily bearing further and ...
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... hours in enriching our libraries , enlarg- ing our understanding , and expanding our hearts . Not only do statesmen rationally em- ploy their time by penning their well - digested opinions , but they also raise literature to that ...
... hours in enriching our libraries , enlarg- ing our understanding , and expanding our hearts . Not only do statesmen rationally em- ploy their time by penning their well - digested opinions , but they also raise literature to that ...
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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.