The Introductory Discourse and Lectures ...Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1832 |
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... rendered subservient to the promo- tion of political intelligence and morality , 94 - the want of such an institution in the present political condition of the country , 95 . Man , as an intellectual and moral being , has higher claims ...
... rendered subservient to the promo- tion of political intelligence and morality , 94 - the want of such an institution in the present political condition of the country , 95 . Man , as an intellectual and moral being , has higher claims ...
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... subjects , lectures , or any other matter , which , in their opin- ion , may tend to render the exercises of the next anniversary interesting and useful . Half past 3 , P. M. August 30 . Institute JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS . xix.
... subjects , lectures , or any other matter , which , in their opin- ion , may tend to render the exercises of the next anniversary interesting and useful . Half past 3 , P. M. August 30 . Institute JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS . xix.
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... rendering their possessor an object of attention for a brief period ; and when they have served this purpose , they are too frequently thrown aside as of no farther use . Why should it be so ? When a woman has found a home possessing ...
... rendering their possessor an object of attention for a brief period ; and when they have served this purpose , they are too frequently thrown aside as of no farther use . Why should it be so ? When a woman has found a home possessing ...
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... renders the succeeding one more easy . The heart advances from victory to victory , or , as a writer of high authority , very forcibly expresses it , " from strength to strength . " If however temptation should once be too strong , and ...
... renders the succeeding one more easy . The heart advances from victory to victory , or , as a writer of high authority , very forcibly expresses it , " from strength to strength . " If however temptation should once be too strong , and ...
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... rendered the great- est blessing of his existence , or will prove , by his own fault , the cause of his misery and ... render a plebeian odious and suspicious , while a moderate share of these distinctions will raise a patrician to the ...
... rendered the great- est blessing of his existence , or will prove , by his own fault , the cause of his misery and ... render a plebeian odious and suspicious , while a moderate share of these distinctions will raise a patrician to the ...
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Page 218 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, • And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals. Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 143 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 148 - And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Page 145 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 114 - One particular only, though it may appear trifling, I will relate. Having often forgot which was the cat and which the dog, he was ashamed to ask, but catching the cat, which he knew by feeling, he was observed to look at her steadfastly, and then setting her down said, so puss, I shall know you another time.
Page 113 - When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects whatever touched his eyes (as he expressed it), as what he felt did his skin ; and thought no objects so agreeable as those which were smooth and regular, though he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him.
Page 71 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 23 - A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more...
Page 114 - ... the room he was in, he said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger.
Page 179 - He was indeed, the parent of English verse, and the first that showed us our tongue had beauly and numbers in it.