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... OF YESTERDAY · OF TO - DAY OF TO - MORROW OF AUTHORSHIP OF MYSTERY OF GIFTS OF BEAUTY OF FAME OF FLATTERY OF NEGLECT \ OF CONTENTMENT OF LIFE OF DEATH OF IMMORTALITY OF IDEAS OF NAMES OF THINGS OF FAITH OF HONESTY OF SOCIETY Contents . vi !
... OF YESTERDAY · OF TO - DAY OF TO - MORROW OF AUTHORSHIP OF MYSTERY OF GIFTS OF BEAUTY OF FAME OF FLATTERY OF NEGLECT \ OF CONTENTMENT OF LIFE OF DEATH OF IMMORTALITY OF IDEAS OF NAMES OF THINGS OF FAITH OF HONESTY OF SOCIETY Contents . vi !
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... fame , dangers and death ; for a name among the learned , a spirit overstrained ; For honour of all kinds , the goad of ambition ; on every acquirement , the tax of anxiety . He that would change with another , must take the 26 Of ...
... fame , dangers and death ; for a name among the learned , a spirit overstrained ; For honour of all kinds , the goad of ambition ; on every acquirement , the tax of anxiety . He that would change with another , must take the 26 Of ...
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... fame ; And greatest is the power of a mean , when its power is least suspected . A low name is a thorn in the side , that hindereth the footman in his running ; But a name of ancestral renown shall often put the racer to his speed . Few ...
... fame ; And greatest is the power of a mean , when its power is least suspected . A low name is a thorn in the side , that hindereth the footman in his running ; But a name of ancestral renown shall often put the racer to his speed . Few ...
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... breach in the citadel of truth , That he may fill the gap , for fame , with his own weak body . Zeal without judgment is an evil , though it be zeal unto good ; Touch not the ark with unclean hand , yea , Of Discretion . 117.
... breach in the citadel of truth , That he may fill the gap , for fame , with his own weak body . Zeal without judgment is an evil , though it be zeal unto good ; Touch not the ark with unclean hand , yea , Of Discretion . 117.
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... fame , While watching at deep midnight , he buildeth up the verse , - Let the calm child of genius , whose name shall never die , For that the transcript of his mind hath made his thoughts immortal , - Let these , let all , with no ...
... fame , While watching at deep midnight , he buildeth up the verse , - Let the calm child of genius , whose name shall never die , For that the transcript of his mind hath made his thoughts immortal , - Let these , let all , with no ...
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Page 497 - Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?" Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.
Page 497 - Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. As many were astonied at thee, (his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men...
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Page 221 - A BABE in a house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love : A resting place for innocence on earth ; a link between angels and men...
Page 6 - A TREATISE on the RECORDS of the CREATION, and on the MORAL ATTRIBUTES of the CREATOR.
Page 210 - LOVE : — what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment...
Page 508 - And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple : and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin : and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
Page 15 - They are, in truth, as appears to us, compositions of very rare merit, and realise a notion we have always entertained, that a sermon for our rural congregations there somewhere was, if it could be hit off, which in language should be familiar without being plain, and in matter solid without being abstruse."— Quarterly Review.
Page 498 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel ; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
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