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... genius in the philosopher . Protect , and you destroy . Emulation is the soil from whence the noblest efforts of the human mind have taken root ; transplant genius from that fruitful earth , and you convert the hardy and vigorous plant ...
... genius in the philosopher . Protect , and you destroy . Emulation is the soil from whence the noblest efforts of the human mind have taken root ; transplant genius from that fruitful earth , and you convert the hardy and vigorous plant ...
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... genius . We who behold the river sweeping past us in the full tide of its course , after it has received the waters of a thou- sand tributary springs , are too apt to forget the obstacles which impeded and delayed the progress of the ...
... genius . We who behold the river sweeping past us in the full tide of its course , after it has received the waters of a thou- sand tributary springs , are too apt to forget the obstacles which impeded and delayed the progress of the ...
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... genius , a soldier , a legislator , and a philoso- pher ; he could discern character at a glance , and read the human heart like a book ; he understood mankind practically , and moved them about like chess - men ; but he never organized ...
... genius , a soldier , a legislator , and a philoso- pher ; he could discern character at a glance , and read the human heart like a book ; he understood mankind practically , and moved them about like chess - men ; but he never organized ...
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... genius , are already aufcientig dark , without our superadding the bleak and withering bigat of neglect . The rewards of mental talent may , it is true , occasionally appear internistently lavish ; but we should recollect how many pass ...
... genius , are already aufcientig dark , without our superadding the bleak and withering bigat of neglect . The rewards of mental talent may , it is true , occasionally appear internistently lavish ; but we should recollect how many pass ...
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... genius , and of wit . Thus , classes , with all the resources of opulence and power at their command , are enabled to follow the inclinations of talent , and indulge in the gratifications of taste , without preju- dicing the interests ...
... genius , and of wit . Thus , classes , with all the resources of opulence and power at their command , are enabled to follow the inclinations of talent , and indulge in the gratifications of taste , without preju- dicing the interests ...
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Page 496 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or, if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 277 - If you aim at a Scottish Presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy as God and the devil. Then Jack, and Tom, and Will, and Dick, shall meet, and at their pleasure censure me and my council, and all our proceedings ; then Will shall stand up and say, It must be thus ; then Dick shall reply, Nay, marry, but we will have it thus.
Page 494 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ! Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still through all the song ; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft, responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope, enchanted, smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Page 496 - O'erhang his wavy bed, Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn...
Page 489 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Page 494 - Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul: And dashing soft from rocks around Bubbling runnels jtiin'd the sound ; Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round an holy calm diffusing, Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.
Page 204 - O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull ; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
Page 424 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home.
Page 218 - That as to dispute what God may do is blasphemy, ... so is it sedition in subjects to dispute what a king may do in the height of his power.
Page 497 - Winter yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes : So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name ! ODE TO PEACE.