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... increase till all mankind shall feel the benefits of its influence - was brought about by the agency of a few poor fishermen . It would seem as if the innocency of their gentle occupation had acted as a becoming prepara- tion for that ...
... increase till all mankind shall feel the benefits of its influence - was brought about by the agency of a few poor fishermen . It would seem as if the innocency of their gentle occupation had acted as a becoming prepara- tion for that ...
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... increase in the number of their places of worship , and the additions to their ranks , that the Romish church in this country , upon the whole , has lost rather than gained by the aggressive movements of the last two years . We have ...
... increase in the number of their places of worship , and the additions to their ranks , that the Romish church in this country , upon the whole , has lost rather than gained by the aggressive movements of the last two years . We have ...
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... increased by the fact , that Mr. Knowles is not merely a theoretical religious disputant , but that having been happily brought into vital contact with it , he rejoices in the freedom which Divine truth only can give the inquiring soul ...
... increased by the fact , that Mr. Knowles is not merely a theoretical religious disputant , but that having been happily brought into vital contact with it , he rejoices in the freedom which Divine truth only can give the inquiring soul ...
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... increase in their practical value . The scriptural histories alone have left the common furnace unscathed , though , in their case , the flame has been intensified to seven - fold heat . But while it is necessary and profitable to deal ...
... increase in their practical value . The scriptural histories alone have left the common furnace unscathed , though , in their case , the flame has been intensified to seven - fold heat . But while it is necessary and profitable to deal ...
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... increased the enthusiasm of the popular hope , and the Welsh of Brittany , gasconading amongst their new neighbours , vastly improved N. S. - VOL . VI . E upon the native tale ; and taking part as they WOODWARD'S HISTORY OF WALES . 49.
... increased the enthusiasm of the popular hope , and the Welsh of Brittany , gasconading amongst their new neighbours , vastly improved N. S. - VOL . VI . E upon the native tale ; and taking part as they WOODWARD'S HISTORY OF WALES . 49.
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Page 294 - But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee — With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 293 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 293 - But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing farther then he uttered, not a feather then he fluttered; Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before; On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
Page 294 - It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 289 - Then think I of deep shadows on the grass, Of meadows where in sun the cattle graze, Where, as the breezes pass, The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways, Of leaves that slumber in a cloudy mass, Or whiten in the wind, of waters blue That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap, and of a sky above, Where one white cloud like a stray lamb doth move.
Page 299 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Page 473 - And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out of the earth, and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe...
Page 289 - DANDELION DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May...
Page 294 - Past (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies Mute, motionless, aghast! For, alas! alas! with me The light of Life is o'er! "No more — no more — no more...
Page 478 - The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect ; part of it is decaying, part nascent. The foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom, — is a type of the life of this world.