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... natural point of view . once entertained , once rendered by habit a The minds of both parties relax out of a part of nature , can never be wholly eradi- certain tension and artificial condition cated ; so that the humbly - born , who ...
... natural point of view . once entertained , once rendered by habit a The minds of both parties relax out of a part of nature , can never be wholly eradi- certain tension and artificial condition cated ; so that the humbly - born , who ...
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... natural and very wrong . She , of course , imagined Eva slinking out of the back - door at Llynbwllyn , with all the silver spoons in a bundle under her shawl , - or under the shawl of some- body else . And on the proceeds of the ...
... natural and very wrong . She , of course , imagined Eva slinking out of the back - door at Llynbwllyn , with all the silver spoons in a bundle under her shawl , - or under the shawl of some- body else . And on the proceeds of the ...
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... natural face , though much and the same mind , in one and the same younger and less lined altogether , is no body , manages to assume and throw off doubt nearer to that of the professor , - a this immense variety of widely separated ...
... natural face , though much and the same mind , in one and the same younger and less lined altogether , is no body , manages to assume and throw off doubt nearer to that of the professor , - a this immense variety of widely separated ...
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... natural interpretation of the meaning of certain lines and attitudes of the face de- pends not so much on those lines and atti- tudes themselves , as on the context in which we find them , and which is made to suggest to us an ...
... natural interpretation of the meaning of certain lines and attitudes of the face de- pends not so much on those lines and atti- tudes themselves , as on the context in which we find them , and which is made to suggest to us an ...
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... natural with all civilized men to wear clothes , and clothes are not an insin- cerity , but a decency of the body ; so that it is natural with all civilized minds to wear moral clothes ; and that moral clothes , that is , moral lines of ...
... natural with all civilized men to wear clothes , and clothes are not an insin- cerity , but a decency of the body ; so that it is natural with all civilized minds to wear moral clothes ; and that moral clothes , that is , moral lines of ...
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Page 520 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 367 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Page 347 - God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God .always ascribe to Him ? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Page 347 - With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in ; to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his...
Page 347 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 11 - Amen ; so let it be : Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.
Page 179 - How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Birds build their nests; while canopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellised bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas lowers! Ah! from what agonies of heart and brain...
Page 346 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 177 - As Sir Launfal made morn through the darksome gate, He was 'ware of a leper, crouched by the same, Who begged with his hand and moaned as he sate ; And a loathing over Sir Launfal came ; The sunshine went out of his soul with a thrill, The flesh 'neath his armor 'gan shrink and crawl...
Page 180 - So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature's geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own.