Letters and Social AimsMacmillan, 1883 - 260 páginas |
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Página 30 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Página 36 - Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound! Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!
Página 67 - Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Página 30 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : at her feet he bowed, he fell : where he bowed, r>2 there he fell down dead.
Página 85 - The Persian poet Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, " Nothing at all." " But why then do you take so much trouble ? " He replied
Página 258 - HUXLEY, FRS GOLDSMITH. By WILLIAM BLACK. DEFOE. By W. MINTO. BURNS. By Principal SHAIRP. SPENSER. By the Very Rev. the DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S. THACKERAY. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE. BURKE. By JOHN MORLEY. MILTON. By MARK PATTISON. HAWTHORNE. By HENRY JAMES, Junr.
Página 240 - Man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education, is the only sane solution of the enigma. The planting of a desire indicates that the gratification of that desire is in the constitution of the creature that feels it. The Creator keeps His word with us all.
Página 40 - I am possessed of songs such as neither the spouse of a king nor the son of a man can repeat — one of them is called the Helper : it will help thee at thy need, in sickness, grief, and all adversities.
Página 234 - What if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to the other like more than on earth is thought...
Página 5 - The ends of all are moral, and therefore the beginnings are such. Thin or solid, everything is in flight. I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry, — that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form ; and in animal transformation not less, as in grub and fly, in egg and bird, in embryo and man ; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new form, and nothing fast but those invisible cords which we call laws, on which all is...