The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. CarpenterJoseph Edwards Carpenter 1869 |
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Page 39
... heart of the worker rises the celestial force , breathed into him by Almighty God , awakening him to all nobleness , to all knowledge . Hast thou valued patience , courage , openness to light , or readiness to own thy mistakes ? In ...
... heart of the worker rises the celestial force , breathed into him by Almighty God , awakening him to all nobleness , to all knowledge . Hast thou valued patience , courage , openness to light , or readiness to own thy mistakes ? In ...
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... heart . Again he cuts another niche , and again he carves his name in larger capitals . This is not enough ; heedless of the entreaties of his companions , he cuts and climbs again . The gradations of his as- cending scale grow wider ...
... heart . Again he cuts another niche , and again he carves his name in larger capitals . This is not enough ; heedless of the entreaties of his companions , he cuts and climbs again . The gradations of his as- cending scale grow wider ...
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... heart , his life must hang upon the next gain he cuts . That niche is his last . At the last flint gash he makes , his knife - his faithful knife - falls from his little nerveless hand , and , ringing along the precipice , falls at his ...
... heart , his life must hang upon the next gain he cuts . That niche is his last . At the last flint gash he makes , his knife - his faithful knife - falls from his little nerveless hand , and , ringing along the precipice , falls at his ...
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... heart it was which arises from hope deferred . Upon looking nearer , I saw him pale and feverish . In thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood : he had seen no sun , no moon , in all that time , nor had the voice of ...
... heart it was which arises from hope deferred . Upon looking nearer , I saw him pale and feverish . In thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood : he had seen no sun , no moon , in all that time , nor had the voice of ...
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... heart , and brain , and tongue , all the days of his life to help forward the great scheme of the Demiourgos , the ... hearts and souls , upon wretched black slaves , upon prisoners , upon the whole world , so far as his own lights went ...
... heart , and brain , and tongue , all the days of his life to help forward the great scheme of the Demiourgos , the ... hearts and souls , upon wretched black slaves , upon prisoners , upon the whole world , so far as his own lights went ...
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