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eminent hands , " all striving to find The Odyssey - also and likewise fit work for
their common hero . He was written by Homer , and the is not a creature of
collected tradi - proof lies all in one word - Ulysses . tions . He stands there - a
single con ...
eminent hands , " all striving to find The Odyssey - also and likewise fit work for
their common hero . He was written by Homer , and the is not a creature of
collected tradi - proof lies all in one word - Ulysses . tions . He stands there - a
single con ...
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the hero is no more - new monarchs stress on the beauty of hands in sway the
different sceptres of Europe ladies , and ... and seemed events of 1815 seemed
to have come to think a pretty and delicate hand like a new avatar on the world .
the hero is no more - new monarchs stress on the beauty of hands in sway the
different sceptres of Europe ladies , and ... and seemed events of 1815 seemed
to have come to think a pretty and delicate hand like a new avatar on the world .
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The agony I chair , a little on her left hand , bis hare seen in her eye on these
occa - chin resting on the palm of his hand , sions ! Compelled to humour his
gazing with a melancholy air on the delusions , she wore splendid dresses
darkening ...
The agony I chair , a little on her left hand , bis hare seen in her eye on these
occa - chin resting on the palm of his hand , sions ! Compelled to humour his
gazing with a melancholy air on the delusions , she wore splendid dresses
darkening ...
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She have yielded to that in thy presence clasped her hands , and looked up
which never abased my manhood ... she gently disengaged I have lost kinsman
and kinswoman ; one hand from its grasp of the earth , ignominiously lost her
whom I ...
She have yielded to that in thy presence clasped her hands , and looked up
which never abased my manhood ... she gently disengaged I have lost kinsman
and kinswoman ; one hand from its grasp of the earth , ignominiously lost her
whom I ...
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But THE WINE - CUP . A VISION . BY C . M , 16 In the hand of the Lord there is a
cup , and the wine is red : it is full mixed , and he poureth out the sime . As for the
dregs thereof , all the ungodly of the earth shall drink them , and suck them out .
But THE WINE - CUP . A VISION . BY C . M , 16 In the hand of the Lord there is a
cup , and the wine is red : it is full mixed , and he poureth out the sime . As for the
dregs thereof , all the ungodly of the earth shall drink them , and suck them out .
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Page 37 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 179 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Shar'on, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Page 509 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Page 22 - Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst.
Page 31 - Learning paid back what it received to nobility and to priesthood; and paid it with usury, by enlarging their ideas and by furnishing their minds. Happy if they had all continued to know their indissoluble union and their proper place! Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Page 36 - Every sort of moral, every sort of civil, every sort of politic institution, aiding the rational and natural ties that connect the human understanding and affections to the divine, are not more than necessary, in order to build up that wonderful structure, Man ; whose prerogative it is, to be in a great degree a creature of his own making ; and who when made as he ought to be made, is destined to hold no trivial place in the creation.
Page 182 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: 3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 521 - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 36 - To avoid therefore the evils of inconstancy and versatility, ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice, we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution...
Page 35 - ... system to remove its corruptions, to supply its defects, or to perfect its construction. If our religious tenets should ever want a further elucidation, we shall not call on atheism to explain them. We shall not light up our temple from that unhallowed fire. It will be illuminated with other lights. It will be perfumed •with other incense than the infectious stuff which is imported by the smugglers of adulterated metaphysics.