The SpectatorPutnam, 1856 |
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... actions , would only influence virtuous minds , there would be but small improvements in the world , were there not some common principle of action working equally with all men . And such a principle is ambition , or a desire of fame ...
... actions , would only influence virtuous minds , there would be but small improvements in the world , were there not some common principle of action working equally with all men . And such a principle is ambition , or a desire of fame ...
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... actions to the admiration of the world , and to distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind ? Providence for the ... action . Others are apt to attribute them to some false end or intention ; and others purposely misrepresent or put ...
... actions to the admiration of the world , and to distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind ? Providence for the ... action . Others are apt to attribute them to some false end or intention ; and others purposely misrepresent or put ...
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... actions should be thrown away in private , lest his deserts should be concealed from the notice of the world , or receive ... action that occasioned it is forgotten . Bell Catil . 49.-C. Besides , this very desire of fame is looked on ...
... actions should be thrown away in private , lest his deserts should be concealed from the notice of the world , or receive ... action that occasioned it is forgotten . Bell Catil . 49.-C. Besides , this very desire of fame is looked on ...
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... action , to ascribe it to vain - glory , and a desire of fame in the actor . Nor is this common judgment and opinion of mankind ill founded for certainly it denotes no great bravery of mind to be worked up to any noble action by so ...
... action , to ascribe it to vain - glory , and a desire of fame in the actor . Nor is this common judgment and opinion of mankind ill founded for certainly it denotes no great bravery of mind to be worked up to any noble action by so ...
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... action , or derogate from the worth of the present , that they may still keep him on the same level with themselves . The like kind of consideration often stirs up the envy of such as were once his superiors , who think it a detraction ...
... action , or derogate from the worth of the present , that they may still keep him on the same level with themselves . The like kind of consideration often stirs up the envy of such as were once his superiors , who think it a detraction ...
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Página 525 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Página 132 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Página 175 - And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth...
Página 123 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Página 96 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Página 89 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere...
Página 100 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Página 129 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Página 135 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages ; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers.
Página 118 - Her husband the relater she preferr'd Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather ; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses : from his lip Not words alone pleased her.