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... becomes , when eagerly seized and faithfully used . It has often been observed , that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least . A single hour in the day , steadily given to the study of some interesting ...
... becomes , when eagerly seized and faithfully used . It has often been observed , that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least . A single hour in the day , steadily given to the study of some interesting ...
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... become a close observer of little things . Our observations are inaccurate and indefinite , because we too frequently attempt to seize upon the whole be-- fore we have the parts , rather than mount gradually from the parts to the whole ...
... become a close observer of little things . Our observations are inaccurate and indefinite , because we too frequently attempt to seize upon the whole be-- fore we have the parts , rather than mount gradually from the parts to the whole ...
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... becomes fainter , until the roar of the waves upon the shore prevails over it . Meantime , far as the eye can reach , the ocean boils and heaves , presenting one wide extending field of foam ; the spray , from the summits of the billows ...
... becomes fainter , until the roar of the waves upon the shore prevails over it . Meantime , far as the eye can reach , the ocean boils and heaves , presenting one wide extending field of foam ; the spray , from the summits of the billows ...
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... becomes warmer and drier ; the refraction of heat is not so severe in summer , the atmosphere is not so charged with frequent furious electric fires , it is not so cold in winter , the snow does not lie so thick upon the fields , and ...
... becomes warmer and drier ; the refraction of heat is not so severe in summer , the atmosphere is not so charged with frequent furious electric fires , it is not so cold in winter , the snow does not lie so thick upon the fields , and ...
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... becomes illuminated with reality , and all the buried men and buried buildings are brought distinct before the eye . Books inflame our estimation of character ; the good Biography transfuses the life of the departed into us ; Arnold ...
... becomes illuminated with reality , and all the buried men and buried buildings are brought distinct before the eye . Books inflame our estimation of character ; the good Biography transfuses the life of the departed into us ; Arnold ...
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Page 185 - And fades the grass away. 3 Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone ; Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long...
Page 159 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the 'will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Page 126 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Page 74 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making him a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
Page 74 - ... the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
Page 162 - They went through the world like Sir Artegale's iron man Talus with his flail, crushing and trampling down oppressors, mingling with human beings, but having neither part nor lot in human infirmities ; insensible to fatigue, to pleasure, and to pain ; not to be pierced by any weapon, not to be withstood by any barrier. Such we believe to have been the character of the Puritans. We perceive the absurdity of their manners. We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits. We acknowledge that the...
Page 154 - If he does not know every thing that has been done in the immeasurable ages that are past, some things may have been done by a God. Thus, unless he knows all things, that is, precludes another Deity by being one himself, he cannot know that the Being whose existence he rejects, does not exist.
Page 23 - I learned grammar when I was a private soldier on the pay of sixpence a day. The edge of my berth, or that of my guard-bed, was my seat to study in ; my knap-sack was my book-case ; a bit of board lying on my lap was my writing-table ; and the task did not demand anything like a year of my life.
Page 107 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
Page 161 - He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him.