The Pulpit record and Mutual improvement society, Parliamentary debating society, chronicle1883 |
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... meeting so appreciative an audience ; and to foster a love of poetry among the younger members of the society , generously offered a number of book prizes , to be awarded to the best reciter of one of six poems , among which should be ...
... meeting so appreciative an audience ; and to foster a love of poetry among the younger members of the society , generously offered a number of book prizes , to be awarded to the best reciter of one of six poems , among which should be ...
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... meeting in the Corn Exchange in the evening , when the speakers at the conference again attended . ΟΝ THE OPIUM QUESTION . N Wednesday afternoon a conference of the general council and friends of the Society for the Suppression of the ...
... meeting in the Corn Exchange in the evening , when the speakers at the conference again attended . ΟΝ THE OPIUM QUESTION . N Wednesday afternoon a conference of the general council and friends of the Society for the Suppression of the ...
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... meeting for conferring degrees of this University was held on Wednesday at the Manchester Town Hall . The proceedings excited much interest , and attracted a very crowded attendance of spectators , who were admitted by ticket . The Vice ...
... meeting for conferring degrees of this University was held on Wednesday at the Manchester Town Hall . The proceedings excited much interest , and attracted a very crowded attendance of spectators , who were admitted by ticket . The Vice ...
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... meeting of Mr. communicants in the schools adjoining the church . Pym was not invited to the meeting , and left the church after evensong , at which there was an average attendance , but no official was present to receive the curate ...
... meeting of Mr. communicants in the schools adjoining the church . Pym was not invited to the meeting , and left the church after evensong , at which there was an average attendance , but no official was present to receive the curate ...
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... meeting was by the latter gentleman . It gave an account of a demotic papyrus , seemingly of the second century , and containing the malediction of an Egyptian mother on her son for embracing Christianity . A paper was also read by Mr ...
... meeting was by the latter gentleman . It gave an account of a demotic papyrus , seemingly of the second century , and containing the malediction of an Egyptian mother on her son for embracing Christianity . A paper was also read by Mr ...
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Page 142 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces : neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Page 10 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest...
Page 285 - The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others ; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause.
Page 150 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Page 11 - LEE. For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE ; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE.
Page 11 - 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.
Page 15 - To overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Page 10 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 142 - And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind : and they were afraid.
Page 142 - And he asked him, What is thy name ? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.