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... look for the origin of mind ? Whence sprang the young idea ? Was it produced by the immediate agency of the Almighty One ? or is it a ne- cessary emanation from the great fountain of nature , the soul of the universe ? Our first thought ...
... look for the origin of mind ? Whence sprang the young idea ? Was it produced by the immediate agency of the Almighty One ? or is it a ne- cessary emanation from the great fountain of nature , the soul of the universe ? Our first thought ...
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... look at my brother Quibo . Is he asleep ? let us awake him . His face is cold ; his eyes are closed ; his limbs are stiff : he is dead . If I touch him , he cannot feel me ; If I cry , he cannot hear me ; Should I pull open his eyes ...
... look at my brother Quibo . Is he asleep ? let us awake him . His face is cold ; his eyes are closed ; his limbs are stiff : he is dead . If I touch him , he cannot feel me ; If I cry , he cannot hear me ; Should I pull open his eyes ...
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... look up for support ? He is conscious of his own weakness , and feels his dependence on every thing that surrounds him . He cannot subject nature to his empire , nor drive the planets from their orbits . Must he submit to the opera ...
... look up for support ? He is conscious of his own weakness , and feels his dependence on every thing that surrounds him . He cannot subject nature to his empire , nor drive the planets from their orbits . Must he submit to the opera ...
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... look for this jewel in the bowels of the earth . They said that truth was at the bottom of a well , probably to signify that it was acquired by immense labor and with great difficulty . These philosophers have thought pro- per to bring ...
... look for this jewel in the bowels of the earth . They said that truth was at the bottom of a well , probably to signify that it was acquired by immense labor and with great difficulty . These philosophers have thought pro- per to bring ...
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... look back upon our past lives and examine our own minds that we may see if there be not more happi- ness in error than in reality . Which have been our hap- piest moments ? those , in which we have searched suc- cessfully into the ...
... look back upon our past lives and examine our own minds that we may see if there be not more happi- ness in error than in reality . Which have been our hap- piest moments ? those , in which we have searched suc- cessfully into the ...
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Page 289 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 10 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 156 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Page 78 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children unto them, the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown.
Page 225 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 217 - For pronunciation the best general rule is, to consider those as the most elegant speakers who deviate least from the written words.
Page 301 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Beth day and night.
Page 202 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 94 - And he said bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat : and he brought him wine, and he drank. And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.