The works of Charles Kingsley, Volume 171880 |
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Page 104 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Page 287 - I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Page 225 - ... tis now thought more expedient only to oblige them to that religion in which all men agree, leaving their particular opinions to themselves; that is, to be good men and true, or men of honour and honesty, by whatever denominations or persuasions they may be distinguished; whereby masonry becomes the center of union, and the means of conciliating true friendship among persons that mult else have remained at a perpetual distance.
Page 288 - Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden ; they are a burden to the weary beast. They stoop, they bow down together ; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
Page 325 - Eabelais, the ape and the man are struggling for the mastery. Let him take warning by the fate of one who was to him as a giant to a pigmy ; and think of Tennyson's words : — "Arise, and fly The reeling faun, the sensual feast ; Strive upwards, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die.
Page 184 - Chateau gates have to be shut; but the King will appear on the balcony, and speak to them. They have seen the King's face ; their Petition of Grievances has been, if not read, looked at. For answer, two of them are hanged, on a " new gallows forty feet high ;" and the rest driven back to their dens — for a time.
Page 382 - If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time ; I press God's lamp Close to my breast ; its splendor, soon or late, Will pierce the gloom : I shall emerge one day.
Page 288 - I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Page 3 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 201 - Perukemaker with two fiery torches" is for burning "the saltpetres of the Arsenal"; — had not a woman run screaming; had not a Patriot, with some tincture of Natural Philosophy, instantly struck the wind out of him (butt of musket on pit of stomach), overturned barrels, and stayed the devouring element. A young beautiful lady, seized escaping in these Outer Courts, and thought falsely to be De Launay's daughter, shall be...