A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects, Alphabetically and Systematically ArrangedCharles Simmons C. Simmons, 1852 - 552 pages |
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... existence . It reigns and operates through all the secrecies of the inner man . It gives birth to every purpose . It gives impulse to every desire . It gives shape and color to every conception . It wields an entire ascendency over ...
... existence . It reigns and operates through all the secrecies of the inner man . It gives birth to every purpose . It gives impulse to every desire . It gives shape and color to every conception . It wields an entire ascendency over ...
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... existence , without weariness . He pondereth all our goings , and not a sparrow or insect falls to the ground without His notice . An omnipresent being can simultaneously attend to all things . And he who inhabits eternity can see every ...
... existence , without weariness . He pondereth all our goings , and not a sparrow or insect falls to the ground without His notice . An omnipresent being can simultaneously attend to all things . And he who inhabits eternity can see every ...
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... existence , will be more and more valuable and valued , by those who prize and enjoy universal good for its own sake . Hence , Divine beneficence will magnify , as progression advances . [ See 395 , 763. ] 69. BENEVOLENCE ...
... existence , will be more and more valuable and valued , by those who prize and enjoy universal good for its own sake . Hence , Divine beneficence will magnify , as progression advances . [ See 395 , 763. ] 69. BENEVOLENCE ...
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... existence . [ See 782. ] 86. BOREAS . There is a teremendous hole That's centered near the northern pole , From whence these flambeaus take their rise , And spangle round the azure skies . Ed . If the above lines do not satisfactorily ...
... existence . [ See 782. ] 86. BOREAS . There is a teremendous hole That's centered near the northern pole , From whence these flambeaus take their rise , And spangle round the azure skies . Ed . If the above lines do not satisfactorily ...
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... existence , which begins with insignificance , expands till it becomes swollen with pride , and decked with vanity , but is ever liable to break its golden cord , and drop into dust and oblivion , like the burst- ing of a bubble ...
... existence , which begins with insignificance , expands till it becomes swollen with pride , and decked with vanity , but is ever liable to break its golden cord , and drop into dust and oblivion , like the burst- ing of a bubble ...
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Page 329 - He that holds fast the golden mean And lives contentedly between The little and the great Feels not the wants that pinch the poor Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state.
Page 472 - Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring ; Flings from the Sun direct the flaming day; Feeds every creature ; hurls the tempest forth ; And, as on earth this grateful change revolves. With transport touches all the springs of life.
Page 369 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Page 252 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Page 449 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 518 - The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half a sentence at a time enough ; The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff— and speak, and pause again. Such often, like the tube they so admire, Important triflers ! have more smoke than fire. Pernicious weed ! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex, whose presence civilizes ours...
Page 120 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps.
Page 236 - FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts, That finds not here an end : Were this frail world our final rest, Living or dying, none were blest. Beyond the flight of time, Beyond this vale of death, There surely is some blessed clime, Where life is not a breath ; Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward and expire...
Page 224 - Rivers to the ocean run, Nor stay in all their course ; Fire, ascending, seeks the sun ; Both speed them to their source : So a soul, that's born of God, Pants to view His glorious face, Upward tends to His abode, To rest in His embrace.
Page 529 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.