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... nature of things , must be employed . Therefore , in the story of the development of human thought and human passion , whenever we see the by - play between individual emotion and personal conviction , be- tween individual or national ...
... nature of things , must be employed . Therefore , in the story of the development of human thought and human passion , whenever we see the by - play between individual emotion and personal conviction , be- tween individual or national ...
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... Nature's manifestations . How shall we compare " THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND " as narrated by Xenophon , and that other military ex- ploit , THE SIEGE OF TROY ? Both deal with all that is bravest in deed , with all that is likely to ...
... Nature's manifestations . How shall we compare " THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND " as narrated by Xenophon , and that other military ex- ploit , THE SIEGE OF TROY ? Both deal with all that is bravest in deed , with all that is likely to ...
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... nature ; surrounded by the glories of poetry , he retired to his solitary grotto , snatched his magic pen- cil , and formed his daring designs . " Have you read Webster's immortal " Bunker Hill speech ? " If so , do you recall the ...
... nature ; surrounded by the glories of poetry , he retired to his solitary grotto , snatched his magic pen- cil , and formed his daring designs . " Have you read Webster's immortal " Bunker Hill speech ? " If so , do you recall the ...
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... nature of the people and ages describ- ed , the sublimity of the language , the everlasting novelty of the history , the grandeur of the laws , the piercing elo- quence of the hymns , and finally , the ancient , consecrated , and ...
... nature of the people and ages describ- ed , the sublimity of the language , the everlasting novelty of the history , the grandeur of the laws , the piercing elo- quence of the hymns , and finally , the ancient , consecrated , and ...
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... natural . Faber's " God of my Childhood " is so perfect a type of its kind , because while mak- ing the boy address the Divinity , he still allows us to hear the boy's falling marbles while prayers proceed ; and we detect the top's whir ...
... natural . Faber's " God of my Childhood " is so perfect a type of its kind , because while mak- ing the boy address the Divinity , he still allows us to hear the boy's falling marbles while prayers proceed ; and we detect the top's whir ...
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Página 80 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Página 120 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Página 13 - The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time.
Página 191 - ... where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
Página 299 - If he is brief, it is because few words suffice ; when he is lavish of them, still each word has its mark, and aids, not embarrasses, the vigorous march of his elocution. He expresses what all feel, but all cannot say; and his sayings pass into proverbs among his people, and his phrases become household words and idioms of their daily speech, which is tessellated with the rich fragments of his language, as we see in foreign lands the marbles of Roman grandeur worked into the walls and pavements of...
Página 12 - A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.
Página 13 - I embrace the common; I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
Página 42 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 179 - ... the author has not always thought it necessary to write downward, in order to meet the comprehension of children. He has generally suffered the theme to soar, whenever such was its tendency, and when he himself was buoyant enough to follow without an effort. 232 Children possess an unestimated sensibility to whatever is deep or high, in imagination or feeling, so long as it is simple, likewise.
Página 79 - It was the first written Constitution known to history that created a Government, and it marked the beginnings of American democracy, of which Thomas Hooker deserves more than any other man to be called the father.