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Page 10
... once gained over the minds of the people , never will they cease to consider
the people as their property , or come down from the pedestals of their assumed
infallibility , to subject themselves to the shock of the collision of mind with mind .
... once gained over the minds of the people , never will they cease to consider
the people as their property , or come down from the pedestals of their assumed
infallibility , to subject themselves to the shock of the collision of mind with mind .
Page 17
I conless , I myself felt a little startled , and begin to consider whether it can be a
detosion which pervades the civilized world . Miss Wright , however , has met
with powerful opposition . Just before locating herself here , every effort was
made ...
I conless , I myself felt a little startled , and begin to consider whether it can be a
detosion which pervades the civilized world . Miss Wright , however , has met
with powerful opposition . Just before locating herself here , every effort was
made ...
Page 31
But this objection will soon vanish , when we consider , that there can be no rules
given by human wit , to that which was never humanly conceived , but divinely
dictated , and inspired ! For this reason , it would be in vain for any poet , or ...
But this objection will soon vanish , when we consider , that there can be no rules
given by human wit , to that which was never humanly conceived , but divinely
dictated , and inspired ! For this reason , it would be in vain for any poet , or ...
Page 52
... he would describe himself to you , whenever he feels a doubt rise upin his
mind , as all religious men have their doubts , ( and God knows , not without
cause enough ) does all he cao to suppress that doubt , and considers it as a
suggestion ...
... he would describe himself to you , whenever he feels a doubt rise upin his
mind , as all religious men have their doubts , ( and God knows , not without
cause enough ) does all he cao to suppress that doubt , and considers it as a
suggestion ...
Page 69
... TO THE INFIDEL MISSIONARIES . ' To the Messrs . Taylor and Carlile . I
CONSIDER myself an exception to 999 out of every thousand , both as it regards
my principles of religion , and my mode of gratuitously communicating them ...
... TO THE INFIDEL MISSIONARIES . ' To the Messrs . Taylor and Carlile . I
CONSIDER myself an exception to 999 out of every thousand , both as it regards
my principles of religion , and my mode of gratuitously communicating them ...
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Page 305 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 457 - The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say ' This is no flattery : these are counsellors 10 That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 151 - I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Page 518 - And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Page 393 - European powers, but a moral war which raged in every family, which set the father against the son, and the son against the father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother.
Page 458 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Page 235 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!
Page 519 - And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.