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... moral energy . That noble contempt of danger , that invincible patience of endurance , that chivalrous spirit of enterprise , that dis- interested lavishment of self , which the field of battle exhibits , and the collective greatness ...
... moral energy . That noble contempt of danger , that invincible patience of endurance , that chivalrous spirit of enterprise , that dis- interested lavishment of self , which the field of battle exhibits , and the collective greatness ...
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... moral reason- ings , on the broad ground of wisdom and justice . War is regarded as a question of ways and means , an affair of State , originating in an exercise of the prerogative of the Executive Power , and in which the people ...
... moral reason- ings , on the broad ground of wisdom and justice . War is regarded as a question of ways and means , an affair of State , originating in an exercise of the prerogative of the Executive Power , and in which the people ...
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... moral efficiency , in opening the minds of the people , has been proved so salutary ? O Poverty , thou art as- suredly the parent of Benevolence ! But has any essential change actually taken place in the ge- neral sentiment regarding ...
... moral efficiency , in opening the minds of the people , has been proved so salutary ? O Poverty , thou art as- suredly the parent of Benevolence ! But has any essential change actually taken place in the ge- neral sentiment regarding ...
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... moral qualities , this passion , in proportion to the scale on which it displays itself , becomes associated in our minds with ideas of heroism and moral grandeur : and thus , the Demon of extermination , invested by the imagination ...
... moral qualities , this passion , in proportion to the scale on which it displays itself , becomes associated in our minds with ideas of heroism and moral grandeur : and thus , the Demon of extermination , invested by the imagination ...
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... moral duty , antecedent to the pub- lication of the Gospel ; the grounds of this obedience are not therefore to be sought for in Christianity , but in reason . dience is not the only duty , however , arising out of our political ...
... moral duty , antecedent to the pub- lication of the Gospel ; the grounds of this obedience are not therefore to be sought for in Christianity , but in reason . dience is not the only duty , however , arising out of our political ...
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Page 90 - For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead...
Page 20 - They say it was a shocking sight after the field was won; for many thousand bodies here lay rotting in the sun; but things like that, you know, must be after a famous victory. Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, and our good Prince Eugene. "Why, 'twas a very wicked thing!" said little Wilhelmine. "Nay... nay... my little girl," quoth he, "it was a famous victory.
Page 293 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake," With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Page 290 - Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child ! Ada ! sole daughter of my house and heart ? When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled, And then we parted, — not as now we part, * But with a hope.
Page 292 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Page 293 - He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill ; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes, Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Page 230 - That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,' saying, I will open my mouth in parables ; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Page 297 - I found him not. 7 only stirred in this black spot; / only lived — / only drew The accursed breath of dungeon-dew; The last, the sole, the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.
Page 479 - And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Page 604 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.