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... Church , which encircles with a halo of poetry and authority even its most vulgar agents . " What a place must that Church be , and how great must he be who dwells in it , and when the whole tendency of the teaching of the ministers of ...
... Church , which encircles with a halo of poetry and authority even its most vulgar agents . " What a place must that Church be , and how great must he be who dwells in it , and when the whole tendency of the teaching of the ministers of ...
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... church : yet it is not late . The large rose - window of the portal flushes in the setting sun . One thing astonishes and creates a feeling of fear : quite at the extremity of the church is that mysterious old stained - glass window ...
... church : yet it is not late . The large rose - window of the portal flushes in the setting sun . One thing astonishes and creates a feeling of fear : quite at the extremity of the church is that mysterious old stained - glass window ...
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... church and educational establishments on each estate , and a due en- forcement of the regulations regarding the attendance of the tenants and families at church , and of their children at school , a highly moral and religious tone would ...
... church and educational establishments on each estate , and a due en- forcement of the regulations regarding the attendance of the tenants and families at church , and of their children at school , a highly moral and religious tone would ...
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... church , Publicola occasion- ally gives a flowery description of liberty , merely by way of a hint to the readers of the Dispatch , " as to the extent of the benefits which might be expected to accrue to them , if to the will , they ...
... church , Publicola occasion- ally gives a flowery description of liberty , merely by way of a hint to the readers of the Dispatch , " as to the extent of the benefits which might be expected to accrue to them , if to the will , they ...
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... church of Notre Dame be changed into a temple consecrated to reason and truth . " The proposal being converted into a mo- tion and immediately carried , the goddess seated herself close to the president , who gave her a fraternal ...
... church of Notre Dame be changed into a temple consecrated to reason and truth . " The proposal being converted into a mo- tion and immediately carried , the goddess seated herself close to the president , who gave her a fraternal ...
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Page 268 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar...
Page 287 - I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining bright; I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me — who knows how?
Page 337 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee...
Page 268 - Oh ! that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements!
Page 284 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth, her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.
Page 129 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Page 129 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Page 271 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 267 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me ; and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...