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... Spirit . 329 CHAPTER X. THE OBJECT OF LIFE . Pictures of the imagination . Visions of good men . Our visions a test of character . The youth returning from a whaling - voyage . The dying thought of Hooker . The world under an immense ...
... Spirit . 329 CHAPTER X. THE OBJECT OF LIFE . Pictures of the imagination . Visions of good men . Our visions a test of character . The youth returning from a whaling - voyage . The dying thought of Hooker . The world under an immense ...
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... spirit of the storm which guards the cape ; and I fore- see , as distinctly , that it will depend entirely on your own skill and energy , whether you survive the fearful encounter , and live to make a port in the mild lati- tudes of the ...
... spirit of the storm which guards the cape ; and I fore- see , as distinctly , that it will depend entirely on your own skill and energy , whether you survive the fearful encounter , and live to make a port in the mild lati- tudes of the ...
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... spirits are buoyant and his hopes sanguine . " He knows not the mortified feeling of being repeatedly defeated by him- self . He will burst upon the world at once , and strike the blows of a giant , while his arm is that of a child . He ...
... spirits are buoyant and his hopes sanguine . " He knows not the mortified feeling of being repeatedly defeated by him- self . He will burst upon the world at once , and strike the blows of a giant , while his arm is that of a child . He ...
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... spirit , —that can advance to eminence in any line . Let us take , by way of illustration , the case of a student . He commences the study of the dead languages : presently comes a friend , who tells him he is wasting his time , and ...
... spirit , —that can advance to eminence in any line . Let us take , by way of illustration , the case of a student . He commences the study of the dead languages : presently comes a friend , who tells him he is wasting his time , and ...
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... spirit , I doubt not , would be a gentleman in appearance and dress , and that not from pride , but from a desire to be more useful and more happy . Nothing will so uniformly and certainly make you unpopular , as to have any habits that ...
... spirit , I doubt not , would be a gentleman in appearance and dress , and that not from pride , but from a desire to be more useful and more happy . Nothing will so uniformly and certainly make you unpopular , as to have any habits that ...
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Page 327 - I mention this to show from what triflina; circumstances the mind \ '.- " will sometimes derive consolation ; for, though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being, thought I, who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings...
Page 332 - I have a short and plain answer: let him study the Holy Scripture, especially the New Testament; therein are contained the words of eternal life : it has God for its author, Salvation for its end, and Truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter...
Page 119 - Pater ipse colendi Haud facilem esse viam voluit, primusque per artem Movit agros curis acuens mortalia corda, Nee torpere gravi passus sua regna veterno.
Page 330 - Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.
Page 327 - I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness in the depth of the rainy season, naked and alone, surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage.
Page 278 - But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Page 77 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 77 - It is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black .... fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 327 - The influence of religion, however, aided and supported me. I reflected that no human prudence or foresight could possibly have averted my present sufferings. I was indeed a stranger in a strange land, yet I was still under the protecting eye of that Providence who has condescended to call himself the Stranger's Friend.
Page 262 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.