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... thing to learn . No one was ever born a Newton or an Edwards . It is patient , vigorous and long continued application that makes the great mind . All must begin with the simplest elements of knowledge , and advance from step to step in ...
... thing to learn . No one was ever born a Newton or an Edwards . It is patient , vigorous and long continued application that makes the great mind . All must begin with the simplest elements of knowledge , and advance from step to step in ...
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... things should be kept steadily in view : -first , that the mind itself is to be formed ; is to be gradually expanded ... thing , he has got to make himself ; or in other words , to rise by personal application . Let him always try his ...
... things should be kept steadily in view : -first , that the mind itself is to be formed ; is to be gradually expanded ... thing , he has got to make himself ; or in other words , to rise by personal application . Let him always try his ...
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... thing in the most engaging light ; and when men are in high good humour with themselves , they are apt to be so with all around ; the face of nature brightens up , and the sun shines with a more agreeable lustre . But when old age has ...
... thing in the most engaging light ; and when men are in high good humour with themselves , they are apt to be so with all around ; the face of nature brightens up , and the sun shines with a more agreeable lustre . But when old age has ...
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... thing to expect . They may have their little day of sun- shine and pleasure ; then they will vanish and be forgot- ten as if they had never been . This is unworthy the character of a rational being . Man was made for a no- bler end than ...
... thing to expect . They may have their little day of sun- shine and pleasure ; then they will vanish and be forgot- ten as if they had never been . This is unworthy the character of a rational being . Man was made for a no- bler end than ...
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... things ; and never , without a due consideration of them , can you be qualified for the duties of life , or sustain the responsibilities so soon to come upon you as members of society . Another requisite for meeting the claims of ...
... things ; and never , without a due consideration of them , can you be qualified for the duties of life , or sustain the responsibilities so soon to come upon you as members of society . Another requisite for meeting the claims of ...
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Page 89 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Page 89 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not, and having ears hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
Page 91 - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations ; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Page 132 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free!
Page 89 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Page 204 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Page 173 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set - but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
Page 205 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity ; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course (wheel) of nature ; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 238 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who, though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; As which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; That, as I slew my bes't lover" for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Page 172 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came : nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next, with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.