Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, Volumen5H. Rawson & Company, 1879 |
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... virtue of Falkland dying on the battle - field , or of Derby perishing on the traitor's scaffold in the Puritan town of Bolton . The life of the Martyr - Earl has been told by Cumming and by Canon Raines in the Stanley Papers published ...
... virtue of Falkland dying on the battle - field , or of Derby perishing on the traitor's scaffold in the Puritan town of Bolton . The life of the Martyr - Earl has been told by Cumming and by Canon Raines in the Stanley Papers published ...
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... virtue but self interest , and that it would cease if his good fortune ceased . God permits Satan to put this accusation to the test ; and Satan , by the agency of irruptions of plundering bands of enemies , the Sabeans and Chaldeans ...
... virtue but self interest , and that it would cease if his good fortune ceased . God permits Satan to put this accusation to the test ; and Satan , by the agency of irruptions of plundering bands of enemies , the Sabeans and Chaldeans ...
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... virtue . There are several axioms involved in the narrative which it is necessary to glance at . God and virtue are one . God is the impersonation of perfect virtue , and perfect virtue is the character of God . Happiness is the natural ...
... virtue . There are several axioms involved in the narrative which it is necessary to glance at . God and virtue are one . God is the impersonation of perfect virtue , and perfect virtue is the character of God . Happiness is the natural ...
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... virtue . If goodness were not practised for its own sake , but for its attendant blessings , it would be prudence , policy , selfishness . Virtue calculating results would be undecided vice . It is the dis- interestedness of virtue ...
... virtue . If goodness were not practised for its own sake , but for its attendant blessings , it would be prudence , policy , selfishness . Virtue calculating results would be undecided vice . It is the dis- interestedness of virtue ...
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... virtue and the advocate of a condemned cause . In the struggle between his earthly and his heavenly affections he has filled his soul with a mist of darkness and conjured up a shadow of terror that stands to him for a Person . Religion ...
... virtue and the advocate of a condemned cause . In the struggle between his earthly and his heavenly affections he has filled his soul with a mist of darkness and conjured up a shadow of terror that stands to him for a Person . Religion ...
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Página 223 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest, who have learned to dance : 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows...
Página 226 - Calamy, with several living authors who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner is like the composition of a poet in...
Página 93 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Página 82 - ... to tak a drink Of the spring that ran sae clear; And down the stream ran his gude heart's blood, And sair she gan to fear. 'Hold up, hold up, Lord William,' she says, 'For I fear that you are slain!
Página 165 - Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utterly 'illiterate,' uneducated person; but that if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy, - you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.
Página 211 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 76 - With that there came an arrow keen Out of an English bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the heart, A deep and deadly blow : Who never spake more words than these — " Fight on, my merry men all ; For why, my life is at an end ; Lord Percy sees my fall.
Página 223 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, • The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 48 - Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene, With half that kindling majesty, dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Página 9 - I stood checked for a moment ; awe, not fear, fell upon me ; and, whilst I stood, a solemn wind began to blow — the saddest that ear ever heard. It was a wind that might have swept the fields of mortality for a thousand centuries.