The Living Age, Volume 105E. Littell & Company, 1870 |
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... poor or rich , they will nobly bear to the end the burthen of their duties . If they are poor they will both willingly toil together , and the blessing of God will rest upon their laborious home , on this pair devoting each day to the ...
... poor or rich , they will nobly bear to the end the burthen of their duties . If they are poor they will both willingly toil together , and the blessing of God will rest upon their laborious home , on this pair devoting each day to the ...
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... poor man once stood by it in much sorrow . Dorothy will tell thee long his- " Do I ? " she answered ; " and yet I sometimes hope that Dorothy may see more of the world than I have had an opportunity of seeing . I do not hold a choice ...
... poor man once stood by it in much sorrow . Dorothy will tell thee long his- " Do I ? " she answered ; " and yet I sometimes hope that Dorothy may see more of the world than I have had an opportunity of seeing . I do not hold a choice ...
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... poor nobodys . Of course , she would be furious , but I verily believe she would go about telling our friends that she was overjoyed , for she had always brought up her children to follow the dictates of their hearts . " “ Come , come ...
... poor nobodys . Of course , she would be furious , but I verily believe she would go about telling our friends that she was overjoyed , for she had always brought up her children to follow the dictates of their hearts . " “ Come , come ...
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... Poor fellow ! this was all he had for his sacrifice , and naturally he longed for his hire , such as it was . " I should say , of course , that you were a nearer one still , and a dearer one , " said Kate , with a soft little laugh ...
... Poor fellow ! this was all he had for his sacrifice , and naturally he longed for his hire , such as it was . " I should say , of course , that you were a nearer one still , and a dearer one , " said Kate , with a soft little laugh ...
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... poor papa , and he is so fond of me ; but you would not like me to put that on a flag and have it carried before me ; you would not be so cruel to papa ? " - stirred him up to the height of a grande kind and sweet , but you will be Miss ...
... poor papa , and he is so fond of me ; but you would not like me to put that on a flag and have it carried before me ; you would not be so cruel to papa ? " - stirred him up to the height of a grande kind and sweet , but you will be Miss ...
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Page 236 - The East bowed low before the blast In patient, deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again.
Page 252 - And many more, whose names on earth are dark, But whose transmitted effluence cannot die So long as fire outlives the parent spark, Rose, robed in dazzling immortality. "Thou art become as one of us...
Page 470 - It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle and pure and penitent and good speaks to him for ever out of his English bible It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a protestant with one spark of religiousness about him, whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon bible...
Page 468 - ... but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against; that hath been our endeavour, that our mark.
Page 386 - Was this then the fate of that high-gifted man, " The pride of the palace, the bower and the hall, " The orator, — dramatist, — minstrel, — who ran " Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all...
Page 2 - Others shall sing the song, Others shall right the wrong, — Finish what I begin, And all I fail of win. What matter, I or they? Mine or another's day, So the right word be said And life the sweeter made...
Page 457 - I defer to speak at this time and understood at the last not only that there was no room in my lord of London's palace to translate the new testament, but also that there was no place to do it in all England, as experience doth now openly declare.
Page 2 - The airs of heaven blow o'er me; A glory shines before me Of what mankind shall be, — Pure, generous, brave and free. A dream of man and woman Diviner but still human, Solving the riddle old, Shaping the Age of Gold! The love of God and neighbor; An equal-handed labor; The richer life, where beauty Walks hand in hand with duty.
Page 376 - I have drawn my sword in the present generous struggle for the rights of men, yet I am not in arms as an American, nor am I in pursuit of riches. My fortune is liberal enough, having no wife nor family, and having lived long enough to know that riches cannot ensure happiness.
Page 372 - He had thought more than any body supposed, and had a pretty good stock of general learning and knowledge. He had all Dr. Johnson's principles, with some degree of relaxation. He had rather too little, than too much prudence; and, his imagination being lively, he often said things of which the effect was very different from the intention. He resembled sometimes The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.