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... Early career in Spain 1 2 7 , S. Reverses of opinions in England 9-12 . His testimony as to religion in Spain 13-16 . And in England 17-19 . Difficulty of gauging his mind 20. His own testimony • 21 , 22. Period of Unitarian belief . 23 ...
... Early career in Spain 1 2 7 , S. Reverses of opinions in England 9-12 . His testimony as to religion in Spain 13-16 . And in England 17-19 . Difficulty of gauging his mind 20. His own testimony • 21 , 22. Period of Unitarian belief . 23 ...
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... early contact with religion 113 115 • 118 119 120 122 • 75 , 76. His father's work on the Santa Casa of Loreto . 123 . 77 , 78. Occasional signs of moral obliquity 79. Conclusion 125 • 126 III . TENNYSON . 1,2 . Early volumes 131 3 ...
... early contact with religion 113 115 • 118 119 120 122 • 75 , 76. His father's work on the Santa Casa of Loreto . 123 . 77 , 78. Occasional signs of moral obliquity 79. Conclusion 125 • 126 III . TENNYSON . 1,2 . Early volumes 131 3 ...
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... early life 213 · 215 217 Melanesian Islands 11-13 . Sails with Bishop Selwyn ; takes charge of the 14. Consecrated in 1860 220 • 222 15-20 . His work at various points 223 21 , 22. His self - denying mode of life 228 23 , 24. His ...
... early life 213 · 215 217 Melanesian Islands 11-13 . Sails with Bishop Selwyn ; takes charge of the 14. Consecrated in 1860 220 • 222 15-20 . His work at various points 223 21 , 22. His self - denying mode of life 228 23 , 24. His ...
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... early and splendid success 6. Noble qualities of the man apart from the author 7,8 . Slight outline of his career 9. His style 10. His originality 11. Ethical qualities 12. Freedom from vices 13. Moderation of life 14. Love of books 15 ...
... early and splendid success 6. Noble qualities of the man apart from the author 7,8 . Slight outline of his career 9. His style 10. His originality 11. Ethical qualities 12. Freedom from vices 13. Moderation of life 14. Love of books 15 ...
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... early years , though he was of gentle blood , for the calling of a merchant . His apprenticeship commenced at the age of eight . * But he " hated the counting - house and loved his books : " and naturally enough , we presume , in his ...
... early years , though he was of gentle blood , for the calling of a merchant . His apprenticeship commenced at the age of eight . * But he " hated the counting - house and loved his books : " and naturally enough , we presume , in his ...
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Page 167 - Traitors — and strike him dead, and meet myself Death, or I know not what mysterious doom. And thou remaining here wilt learn the event; But hither shall I never come again, Never lie by thy side; see thee no more — Farewell!
Page 178 - Titanic forces taking birth In divers seasons, divers climes; For we are Ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
Page 53 - Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made : Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
Page 141 - Ah ! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 210 - His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain...
Page 210 - If to the city sped, what waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury and thin mankind ; To see those joys the sons of Pleasure know Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe.
Page 139 - I seem in star and flower To feel thee some diffusive power, I do not therefore love thee less: My love involves the love before; My love is vaster passion now; Tho' mix'd with God and Nature thou, I seem to love thee more and more.
Page 307 - Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame...
Page 141 - For the peace, that I deem'd no peace, is over and done, And now by the side of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire.
Page 142 - When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones, Is it peace or war ? better, war! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.