 | 1864 - 868 pages
...convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness. Nay, it is worshipped with a positive idolatry, in extenuation of whose grotesque fanaticism, its intrinsic... | |
 | 1861 - 716 pages
...convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor...are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It ifl the representative of his best moments,... | |
 | 1870 - 878 pages
...hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things instead of words ; it is a part of the national mind, and the anchor of national...are stereotyped in its verses ; the power of all the griefs and trials of a man is bidden beneath its words ... In the length and breadth of the land there... | |
 | 1911 - 856 pages
...forgotten, like the sound of church bells which the convert scarcely knows how he can forego. . . . The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent...traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. lt is the representative of a man's best moments; all that there is about him of soft and gentle and... | |
 | 1854 - 518 pages
...subject to neglect or contempt among the jchildren of the departed. " The memory of the dead has passed into it The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the companion and the consecration of... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...the convert knows not how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness. Nay, it is worshipped with a positive idolatry, in extenuation of whose grotesque fanaticism its intrinsic... | |
 | 1855 - 336 pages
...convert hardly tnows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost tilings rather than mere words. It Is part of the national mind, and the anchor...national seriousness. . . . The memory of the dead paases Into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped In Its verses. The power of all... | |
 | 1856 - 504 pages
...the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor...are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments,... | |
 | Horace Bushnell - 1853 - 154 pages
...hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be almost things, rather than mere words. It is a part of the national mind, and the anchor of national...are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments,... | |
 | Massachusetts Bible Society - 1853 - 814 pages
...which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities seem to be things rather than words. The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent...are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of man are hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments,... | |
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The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. 
