The Christian Examiner, Volumen71Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1861 |
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... thought Epicurus , was an old crone , barren now and exhausted . In her youth she produced men from her teeming womb , laid them upon her soft couch of grass , and gave them milk from her full udders . Now since the memory of man she ...
... thought Epicurus , was an old crone , barren now and exhausted . In her youth she produced men from her teeming womb , laid them upon her soft couch of grass , and gave them milk from her full udders . Now since the memory of man she ...
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... thought , labor , and sadness ; the only adorable , because , being unable to bestow any rewards upon their worshippers , they could be contem- plated with calmer mind and waited on with more simple and sincere devoutness . Superfluous ...
... thought , labor , and sadness ; the only adorable , because , being unable to bestow any rewards upon their worshippers , they could be contem- plated with calmer mind and waited on with more simple and sincere devoutness . Superfluous ...
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... thought of being an enemy of his kind . To deliver mortals from superstitious terrors was the sole wish of the amiable philosopher . He would banish the appalling phantoms of the unseen world , and rid nature of hobgoblins . Anything in ...
... thought of being an enemy of his kind . To deliver mortals from superstitious terrors was the sole wish of the amiable philosopher . He would banish the appalling phantoms of the unseen world , and rid nature of hobgoblins . Anything in ...
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... thought to avoid the shame of the public scaffold ; the rest had thrown away their cowardly passions , and were in a mood to change the bloody cart into a triumphal car . Was not this death - banquet of the Girondins , in that chaotic ...
... thought to avoid the shame of the public scaffold ; the rest had thrown away their cowardly passions , and were in a mood to change the bloody cart into a triumphal car . Was not this death - banquet of the Girondins , in that chaotic ...
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... thought , a palpa- ble home for the human soul to dwell in ; - while Zeno , the Stoic , is drilling man's will for its grand work of battling with the Devil , making systems of morals , propounding maxims of self - denial , nursing ...
... thought , a palpa- ble home for the human soul to dwell in ; - while Zeno , the Stoic , is drilling man's will for its grand work of battling with the Devil , making systems of morals , propounding maxims of self - denial , nursing ...
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Página 174 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up the access and passage to remorse...
Página 225 - Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides: Each part may call the farthest, brother : For head with foot hath private amity, And both with moons and tides.
Página 374 - And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Página 35 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Página 372 - If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Página 198 - It forces us to ask, Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Página 44 - But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you ; and ye shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
Página 207 - As the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world.
Página 208 - Let man then learn the revelation of all nature and all thought to his heart; this, namely ; that the Highest dwells with him ; that the sources of nature are in his own mind, if the sentiment of duty is there. But if he would know what the great God speaketh, he must ' go into his closet and shut the door,
Página 346 - I gave up my two dear unprovided children into his hands ; but he has no compassion, and suffers them and their poor dying mother to beg their bread at his door, and to crave, as if it were an alms, what he is bound under hand and seal, besides the most sacred promises, to supply them with : himself, at the same time, living in a profusion of plenty. It is too much for me.