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... youth were instructed in oratory with as much care as their soldiers were trained up to arms ; and they became the first orators in the world . It is true they possessed a certain vivacity of genius and quickness of conception peculiar ...
... youth were instructed in oratory with as much care as their soldiers were trained up to arms ; and they became the first orators in the world . It is true they possessed a certain vivacity of genius and quickness of conception peculiar ...
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... religion , and its ministers , and to itself , and behave thus unseemly , what can we expect from youth and ignorance ? Supposing the practice of the preacher incorrect , it could not deserve so severe a censure 40 THE POCKET MAGAZINE .
... religion , and its ministers , and to itself , and behave thus unseemly , what can we expect from youth and ignorance ? Supposing the practice of the preacher incorrect , it could not deserve so severe a censure 40 THE POCKET MAGAZINE .
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... Youth wanes apace , a daylight race That leaves behind its night of sadness . But if in youth , our bosom's truth Should meet with love's returning kisses , We're doubly bless'd , enrapt , caress'd , And life's a ceaseless flow of ...
... Youth wanes apace , a daylight race That leaves behind its night of sadness . But if in youth , our bosom's truth Should meet with love's returning kisses , We're doubly bless'd , enrapt , caress'd , And life's a ceaseless flow of ...
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... youth . " No , my dear , " answered his parent , " it is only the wind rustling among the trees . " Richard Burke raised his head , and in a feeble but devout voice repeated , from Milton's morning hymn , " His praise , ye winds , that ...
... youth . " No , my dear , " answered his parent , " it is only the wind rustling among the trees . " Richard Burke raised his head , and in a feeble but devout voice repeated , from Milton's morning hymn , " His praise , ye winds , that ...
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... youth not celebrated for a superabundance of brains . He found him in the midst of numerous packages , and apparently just departing on a long journey . " Where the deuce are you going to ? " ex- claimed he . " I am just setting off for ...
... youth not celebrated for a superabundance of brains . He found him in the midst of numerous packages , and apparently just departing on a long journey . " Where the deuce are you going to ? " ex- claimed he . " I am just setting off for ...
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Página 230 - But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Página 344 - Was as a mockery of the tomb, Whose tints as gently sunk away As a departing rainbow's ray — An eye of most transparent light, That almost made the dungeon bright, And not a word of murmur — nut A groan o'er his untimely lot...
Página 230 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 230 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Página 230 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Página 197 - Parallels of this sort rather furnish similitudes to illustrate or to adorn, than supply analogies from whence to reason. The objects which are attempted to be forced into an analogy are not found in the same classes of existence. Individuals are physical beings, subject to laws universal and invariable. The immediate cause acting in these laws may be obscure : the general results are subjects of certain calculation. But cemmonwealths are not physical but moral essences.
Página 94 - Cataracts of declamation thunder here ; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald...
Página 98 - Franklin, as president of the "Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," etc., issued the following letter: — "AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. " From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes unla-wfully held in Bondage.
Página 320 - His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide, and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes, vacant and spiritless; and the corpulence of his whole person was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman, than of a refined philosopher.
Página 205 - ... new acquirements would enable me to see the ladies with tolerable intrepidity ; but, alas ! how vain are all the hopes of theory...