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... human mind , and shackled the conscience , that connecting link between God and man , and open for us the avenues to ... Humanity . • Rhode - Island has proved herself worthy of her illustrious founder . In the revolutionary struggle ...
... human mind , and shackled the conscience , that connecting link between God and man , and open for us the avenues to ... Humanity . • Rhode - Island has proved herself worthy of her illustrious founder . In the revolutionary struggle ...
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... human mind A " weathercock " they call ; And thus , unthinkingly , mankind Abuse thee , one and all . They have no right to make thy name A by - word for their deeds : — They change their friends , their principles , Their fashions ...
... human mind A " weathercock " they call ; And thus , unthinkingly , mankind Abuse thee , one and all . They have no right to make thy name A by - word for their deeds : — They change their friends , their principles , Their fashions ...
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... human arts or arms ? Which flatters the senses and gross inclinations of men ? Which adorns and improves the most excellent part of our nature ? Which hath * Modern Free - thinkers are the very same with those Cicero called Minute ...
... human arts or arms ? Which flatters the senses and gross inclinations of men ? Which adorns and improves the most excellent part of our nature ? Which hath * Modern Free - thinkers are the very same with those Cicero called Minute ...
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... human alloy from that which is divine ; and upon the whole , form his judgment like a reasonable free- thinker . But instead of taking such a rational course , one of those hasty sceptics shall conclude without demurring , that there is ...
... human alloy from that which is divine ; and upon the whole , form his judgment like a reasonable free- thinker . But instead of taking such a rational course , one of those hasty sceptics shall conclude without demurring , that there is ...
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... human sound I heard , All , all , had passed away- And the years stole by So silently , I thought that Nature slept in mortal lethargy . * * * * * * Hark ! thunder wakes the world , It rives the THE LIVING - DEAD . 43.
... human sound I heard , All , all , had passed away- And the years stole by So silently , I thought that Nature slept in mortal lethargy . * * * * * * Hark ! thunder wakes the world , It rives the THE LIVING - DEAD . 43.
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Page 33 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Page 32 - The Muse, disgusted at an age and clime Barren of every glorious theme, In distant lands now waits a better time, Producing subjects worthy fame : In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of art by nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools...
Page 232 - There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Page 6 - It pleased the Lord to call me for some time, and with some persons, to practise the Hebrew, the Greek, Latin, French and Dutch. The Secretary of the Council, (Mr. Milton) for my Dutch I read him, read me many more languages.
Page 220 - Long labour, why, forgetful of his toils And due repose, he loiters to behold The sunshine gleaming as through amber clouds O'er all the western sky? Full soon, I ween, His rude expression and untutor'd airs Beyond the power of language will unfold The form of beauty smiling at his heart, How lovely!
Page 33 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts, Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 18 - My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Page 262 - ... cannot wholly forget her true vocation. Strains of pure feeling, touches of tenderness, images of innocent happiness, sympathies with what is good in our nature, bursts of scorn or indignation at the hollowness of the world, passages true to our moral nature, often escape in an immoral work, and show us how hard it is for a gifted spirit to divorce itself wholly from what is good.
Page 130 - THE awful shadow of some unseen power Floats, though unseen, among us — visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower ; Like moonbeams, that behind some piny mountain shower, It visits with inconstant glance Each human heart and countenance, Like hues and harmonies of evening, Like clouds in starlight widely spread...
Page 67 - And rung the heavy oaken floor with many a martial tread; While from the rich, dark tracery, along the vaulted wall, Lights gleamed on harness, plume, and spear, o'er the proud old Gothic hall.