The Greatest Works of the Greatest Authors, Ancient and Modern ...H.W. Hagemann Publishing Company, 1894 - 896 pages |
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... perfect than any which had at that time been known in the world . He reformed the representative system in a manner which has extorted praise even from Lord Clarendon . For himself he demanded indeed the first place in the com ...
... perfect than any which had at that time been known in the world . He reformed the representative system in a manner which has extorted praise even from Lord Clarendon . For himself he demanded indeed the first place in the com ...
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... perfect candor . We shall not charge upon a whole party the profligacy and baseness of the horse - boys , gamblers and bravoes , whom the hope of li- cense and plunder attracted from all the dens of Whitefriars to the standard of ...
... perfect candor . We shall not charge upon a whole party the profligacy and baseness of the horse - boys , gamblers and bravoes , whom the hope of li- cense and plunder attracted from all the dens of Whitefriars to the standard of ...
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... perfect hatred , he had | should think for themselves as well as tax nevertheless all the estimable and ornamental themselves , and should be emancipated from qualities which were almost entirely monop- the dominion of prejudice as well ...
... perfect hatred , he had | should think for themselves as well as tax nevertheless all the estimable and ornamental themselves , and should be emancipated from qualities which were almost entirely monop- the dominion of prejudice as well ...
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... perfect field of cloth of gold . The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery . Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings ...
... perfect field of cloth of gold . The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery . Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings ...
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... perfect state of the human mind , the interests out of a standard of ethics in which the only of truth require a diversity of opinions . It worth , professedly recognized , is that of obe- is not necessary that in ceasing to ignore the ...
... perfect state of the human mind , the interests out of a standard of ethics in which the only of truth require a diversity of opinions . It worth , professedly recognized , is that of obe- is not necessary that in ceasing to ignore the ...
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Page 363 - For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Page 438 - Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid ; for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is a minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Page 480 - To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There, in close covert, by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring, With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep.
Page 382 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 495 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 477 - Of every hearer ; for it so falls out » That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 366 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity : so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 340 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 429 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy ; Which is as thin of substance as the air ; And more inconstant than the wind...
Page 333 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another ;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.