Youth's Instructor and Guardian, Volume 17J. Mason., 1833 |
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... , nor his judgment warped by passion or prejudice . Though he had been banished from Athens on command , his ideas of the character of an historian account of the failure of an expedition entrusted to his 8 PAFERS ON ANCIENT GREECE .
... , nor his judgment warped by passion or prejudice . Though he had been banished from Athens on command , his ideas of the character of an historian account of the failure of an expedition entrusted to his 8 PAFERS ON ANCIENT GREECE .
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command , his ideas of the character of an historian were too dignified , to suffer him to mingle any observations of a personal nature with the majesty of his details . When obliged to mention his particular enemies , he never makes ...
command , his ideas of the character of an historian were too dignified , to suffer him to mingle any observations of a personal nature with the majesty of his details . When obliged to mention his particular enemies , he never makes ...
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... character in speaking it , at all times and in all companies . Dining one day at the table of Sir Robert Murray Keith , our ambassador at the Austrian court , the conversation turned upon the torture , when a German gentleman observed ...
... character in speaking it , at all times and in all companies . Dining one day at the table of Sir Robert Murray Keith , our ambassador at the Austrian court , the conversation turned upon the torture , when a German gentleman observed ...
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14 THE FEMALE CHARACTER . FERSONAL piety forms the distinguished excellence of the female character . " Favour is deceitful , and beauty is vain ; but the woman that feareth the Lord , she shall be praised . " The virtues to which we ...
14 THE FEMALE CHARACTER . FERSONAL piety forms the distinguished excellence of the female character . " Favour is deceitful , and beauty is vain ; but the woman that feareth the Lord , she shall be praised . " The virtues to which we ...
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... character in a more advanta- geous light still , behold religion not only combined with all the peculiar excellencies of her sex , but gradually extermi- nating all her peculiar faults and foibles ; subjugating her spirit of unworthy ...
... character in a more advanta- geous light still , behold religion not only combined with all the peculiar excellencies of her sex , but gradually extermi- nating all her peculiar faults and foibles ; subjugating her spirit of unworthy ...
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Page 36 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 108 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning ! If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy...
Page 67 - God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day : the angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads...
Page 218 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain; who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; who maketh the clouds his chariot; who walketh upon the wings of the wind; who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire.
Page 83 - Man may trouble and distress me, 'Twill but drive me to Thy breast ; Life with trials hard may press me, Heaven will bring me sweeter rest! O, 'tis not in grief to harm me, While Thy love is left to me ; O, 'twere not in joy to charm me, Were that joy unmixed with Thee.
Page 241 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 64 - This is a good man ; here is nothing for me;" but when his master came to the prayer of the publican, " God be merciful to me a sinner...
Page 219 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night, Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God. The sun ariseth, they get them away, And lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labour until the evening.
Page 83 - JESUS, I my cross have taken, All to leave and follow Thee ; Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou, from hence, my All shalt be. Perish every fond ambition, All I've sought, or hoped, or known, Yet how rich is my condition ! God and heaven are still my own.
Page 103 - And He said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.