Sermons, Volumen2D.G. Francis, 1874 |
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... in the wasting extravagance of unprofitable talk . As a rule , leisure is employed in a way that unfits people for toil , instead of in a way that prepares them for it . It drains off the few remaining drops of vital energy , 13.
... in the wasting extravagance of unprofitable talk . As a rule , leisure is employed in a way that unfits people for toil , instead of in a way that prepares them for it . It drains off the few remaining drops of vital energy , 13.
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... rule holds to a considerable extent in Europe . The opera is aristocratic . Its romantic subjects remove it far as possible from popular interest . A combination of vocal and instrumental music with drama , a blending of the costliest ...
... rule holds to a considerable extent in Europe . The opera is aristocratic . Its romantic subjects remove it far as possible from popular interest . A combination of vocal and instrumental music with drama , a blending of the costliest ...
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... rules of etiquette or maxims of prudence . It is a second nature , a new creation . The books we read , the people we admire , the examples we imitate , the standards we set up and strive for , the models we copy , the society we ...
... rules of etiquette or maxims of prudence . It is a second nature , a new creation . The books we read , the people we admire , the examples we imitate , the standards we set up and strive for , the models we copy , the society we ...
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... rule of practice involves no more , but must rejoice that it involves so much . When Mr. Proctor , the lecturer on astronomy , spoke of devotees of that science who were toiling at one of its most occult problems , knowing full well ...
... rule of practice involves no more , but must rejoice that it involves so much . When Mr. Proctor , the lecturer on astronomy , spoke of devotees of that science who were toiling at one of its most occult problems , knowing full well ...
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... rule , even among trained and cultivated people , the light- hearted are better than the heavy . Austerity and impurity are apt to go together . The conviction of sinfulness makes surly while it makes sad . We ought to ask how a ...
... rule , even among trained and cultivated people , the light- hearted are better than the heavy . Austerity and impurity are apt to go together . The conviction of sinfulness makes surly while it makes sad . We ought to ask how a ...
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Página 25 - Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another, And all to all the world besides. Each part may call the farthest brother, For head with foot hath private amity, And both with moons and tides.
Página 3 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Página 19 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice ' believe no more,' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answered
Página 8 - And there arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth for ever chase That flying and elusive shadow, rest. An air of coolness plays upon his face, And an unwonted calm pervades his breast And then he thinks he knows The hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes.
Página 15 - For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been: for the breath in our nostrils is as smoke, and a little spark in the moving of our heart: 3 Which being extinguished, our body shall be turned into ashes, and our spirit shall vanish as the soft air...
Página 7 - Ah yes, and they benumb us at our call! Yet still, from time to time, vague and forlorn, From the soul's subterranean depth upborne As from an infinitely distant land, Come airs, and floating echoes, and convey A melancholy into all our day.
Página 10 - ... it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful untruth, though it harmed no one, or steal one poor farthing without excuse.
Página 10 - Oh, then we awoke with sudden start From our deep dream, and knew too late, How bare the rock, how desolate, Which had received our precious freight: Yet we called out — "Depart! Our gifts, once given, must here abide? Our work is done; we have no heart To mar our work,
Página 19 - I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life : Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son.
Página 17 - A person whose desires and impulses are his own — are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture — is said to have a character.