The Boston Quarterly Review, Volume 4Benjamin H. Greene, 1841 - American literature |
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... faith in the future , whose mental vision sweeps a broader than the vulgar horizon , whose souls burn to raise up the low , to break the fetters of the slave , to open the prison doors to them that are bound , to preach glad tidings to ...
... faith in the future , whose mental vision sweeps a broader than the vulgar horizon , whose souls burn to raise up the low , to break the fetters of the slave , to open the prison doors to them that are bound , to preach glad tidings to ...
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... faith in the practicability of removing all social evils , and who would do their best to communicate that faith to their pupils ? I need not ask you , if you would choose a man of my opinions to be the educator of your child- ren ; for ...
... faith in the practicability of removing all social evils , and who would do their best to communicate that faith to their pupils ? I need not ask you , if you would choose a man of my opinions to be the educator of your child- ren ; for ...
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... faith in nor desire for Reform yourselves . You have the instinct of self- preservation . You are not likely to be suicides ; and yet it were suicidal for you to encourage Reformers ; for they would reform the abuses by which you are ...
... faith in nor desire for Reform yourselves . You have the instinct of self- preservation . You are not likely to be suicides ; and yet it were suicidal for you to encourage Reformers ; for they would reform the abuses by which you are ...
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... faith in the capaci- ties of human nature , and we believe there is already enough of virtue and intelligence in our community , to arrest any dangerous tendency in the government , be- fore it shall be too late . Moreover , we believe ...
... faith in the capaci- ties of human nature , and we believe there is already enough of virtue and intelligence in our community , to arrest any dangerous tendency in the government , be- fore it shall be too late . Moreover , we believe ...
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... faith in dry calculations , in the cool deductions of logic . Intellect to them is a god , only when it is accompanied by high moral qualities , nobleness of soul , generous emotion , warmth of affec- tion , and a contempt of ...
... faith in dry calculations , in the cool deductions of logic . Intellect to them is a god , only when it is accompanied by high moral qualities , nobleness of soul , generous emotion , warmth of affec- tion , and a contempt of ...
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Page 179 - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, Cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiada, facilis descensus Averno ; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est.
Page 427 - tis rough and narrow, And winds with short turns down the precipice. And in its depth there is a mighty rock, Which has, from unimaginable years, Sustained itself with terror and with toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down...
Page 78 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 392 - My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you...
Page 151 - Remove far from me vanity and lies : give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord 1 or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 428 - Hark ! the rushing snow ! The sun-awakened avalanche ! whose mass, Thrice sifted by the storm, had gathered there Flake after flake, — in heaven-defying minds As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now.
Page 438 - There is no other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved, but the name of Jesus.
Page 226 - Naught doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying round ; and small birds, how they fare, When mother Autumn fills their beaks with corn, Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn...
Page 381 - I exempt, however, from these remarks, the distribution among the States of the proceeds of the public lands, and their application to pay the debts of the States, should the States choose so to apply the money.
Page 426 - SPIRITS The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and they flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.