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His faculty of speech . A solitary human being associations with his fellow
creatures are loses every impulse to action , other than loose and precarious .
His tribes can nev . that of self - preservation . Instances have er be numerous ,
and they ...
His faculty of speech . A solitary human being associations with his fellow
creatures are loses every impulse to action , other than loose and precarious .
His tribes can nev . that of self - preservation . Instances have er be numerous ,
and they ...
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This alone can deserve Which time but strengthens , and which death withstands
; the name of marriage , and from this root spring all the comforts and all the virtu
First of the social charities that form ous enjoyments of which human life is That ...
This alone can deserve Which time but strengthens , and which death withstands
; the name of marriage , and from this root spring all the comforts and all the virtu
First of the social charities that form ous enjoyments of which human life is That ...
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tured - Dorr had not fought for human Again he asks— " During the half centu-
rights , and Counsellor Hurlbut had not ry now ... of past times vanish before it .
character , even were he disposed to learn The Bible told us , that human nature
it .
tured - Dorr had not fought for human Again he asks— " During the half centu-
rights , and Counsellor Hurlbut had not ry now ... of past times vanish before it .
character , even were he disposed to learn The Bible told us , that human nature
it .
Page 439
The most something final , and that final reaching spiritual philosophy teaches us
, not only to something out of human nature itself , that the end of existence must
be some then everything falls into its proper place . thing else than happiness ...
The most something final , and that final reaching spiritual philosophy teaches us
, not only to something out of human nature itself , that the end of existence must
be some then everything falls into its proper place . thing else than happiness ...
Page 450
They may truly ihink , some acquaintance with human rights that the best
interests of society require and human duties ? ... if you can ever find them as
ignorantly undervaluing the true such contemptible twaddle as this : interests of
humanity .
They may truly ihink , some acquaintance with human rights that the best
interests of society require and human duties ? ... if you can ever find them as
ignorantly undervaluing the true such contemptible twaddle as this : interests of
humanity .
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Page 34 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Page 34 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners...
Page 329 - Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! — let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 34 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 33 - I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 206 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
Page 177 - But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill...
Page 33 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 329 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 384 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.