Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysC. Scribner, 1861 - 344 pages |
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... lives are embit- tered by that trace ; and who know that the pure Anglo Saxon , if he follows his instincts , will say to him : " Thus far , ” — ( through a limited range of relations , ) — " but no further . " From the depths of my ...
... lives are embit- tered by that trace ; and who know that the pure Anglo Saxon , if he follows his instincts , will say to him : " Thus far , ” — ( through a limited range of relations , ) — " but no further . " From the depths of my ...
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... lives when there was joy in the consciousness of living— when animal life , in its spontaneous overflow , flooded all our careless hours with its own peculiar pleasure . The light was pleasant to our eyes , vigorous appetite and ...
... lives when there was joy in the consciousness of living— when animal life , in its spontaneous overflow , flooded all our careless hours with its own peculiar pleasure . The light was pleasant to our eyes , vigorous appetite and ...
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... shocking ; and God has contrived the transitions of our lives so that they shall be mainly gradual . It is not to be wondered at that many men and women , by having the responsibilities of men and 50 Leffons in Life .
... shocking ; and God has contrived the transitions of our lives so that they shall be mainly gradual . It is not to be wondered at that many men and women , by having the responsibilities of men and 50 Leffons in Life .
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... lives have been crowded with great griefs and disappointments - who sit in darkness and impotency while the world rolls by them . They have seen no joy and felt no content since childhood , and many of them look with genuine pity upon ...
... lives have been crowded with great griefs and disappointments - who sit in darkness and impotency while the world rolls by them . They have seen no joy and felt no content since childhood , and many of them look with genuine pity upon ...
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... live in groups no less uniformly than the existences which they inform and govern . It is a law , both of animal and vegetable structures , that they shall grow by what they feed on ; but this law passes the bounds of matter , and finds ...
... live in groups no less uniformly than the existences which they inform and govern . It is a law , both of animal and vegetable structures , that they shall grow by what they feed on ; but this law passes the bounds of matter , and finds ...
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Page 16 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 190 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 23 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
Page 313 - My stubborn right abide ; I set a plain man's common sense Against the pedant's pride. To-day shall simple manhood try The strength of gold and land ; The wide world has not wealth to buy The power in my right hand...
Page 7 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Page 175 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 248 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 234 - For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along, Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong ; Whether conscious or unconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame Through its ocean.sundered fibres feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
Page 234 - Tis the finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame, Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim, And guard the way of life from all offence Suffered or done.
Page 209 - It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.