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... sense of a mighty capacity for evil . The passion of war is doubtless a superior passion to that which nerves the arm of the midnight marauder ; it partakes less of the weakness of humanity ; it has less respect to selfish objects ; it ...
... sense of a mighty capacity for evil . The passion of war is doubtless a superior passion to that which nerves the arm of the midnight marauder ; it partakes less of the weakness of humanity ; it has less respect to selfish objects ; it ...
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... sense of St. Paul , " the ordinance of God , " and without any repugnancy , in the sense of St. Peter's words , " the ordinance " of man * . " It were idle , then , to combat such objections on religious grounds , inasmuch as they who ...
... sense of St. Paul , " the ordinance of God , " and without any repugnancy , in the sense of St. Peter's words , " the ordinance " of man * . " It were idle , then , to combat such objections on religious grounds , inasmuch as they who ...
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... sense . We are not prepared to go all the length of some of the Abolitionists , the Society of Friends for instance , on this subject , because , if War be considered simply as the exercise of violence , whether strictly in resistance ...
... sense . We are not prepared to go all the length of some of the Abolitionists , the Society of Friends for instance , on this subject , because , if War be considered simply as the exercise of violence , whether strictly in resistance ...
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... sense of pas- siveness , cannot be applied to the term War , without bordering on a solecism . Besides , what is Defensive War ? In its pro- per sense , it can refer only to the case of actual invasion : in its usual sense , it simply ...
... sense of pas- siveness , cannot be applied to the term War , without bordering on a solecism . Besides , what is Defensive War ? In its pro- per sense , it can refer only to the case of actual invasion : in its usual sense , it simply ...
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... sense , not only the destroyer of the frame , but the executioner of the soul of a fellow - creature , by sealing up it irreversible condition in death ; and not the soul of one human being only , but the souls of hundreds of human ...
... sense , not only the destroyer of the frame , but the executioner of the soul of a fellow - creature , by sealing up it irreversible condition in death ; and not the soul of one human being only , but the souls of hundreds of human ...
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Page 90 - For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead...
Page 20 - They say it was a shocking sight after the field was won; for many thousand bodies here lay rotting in the sun; but things like that, you know, must be after a famous victory. Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, and our good Prince Eugene. "Why, 'twas a very wicked thing!" said little Wilhelmine. "Nay... nay... my little girl," quoth he, "it was a famous victory.
Page 293 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake," With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Page 290 - Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child ! Ada ! sole daughter of my house and heart ? When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled, And then we parted, — not as now we part, * But with a hope.
Page 292 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Page 293 - He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill ; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes, Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Page 230 - That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,' saying, I will open my mouth in parables ; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Page 297 - I found him not. 7 only stirred in this black spot; / only lived — / only drew The accursed breath of dungeon-dew; The last, the sole, the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.
Page 479 - And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Page 604 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.