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... respect and admiration from their juniors in age and experience . Well might the appearance of the reverend stranger , then , form an era in the village history ; and little wonder that older and sager heads than the pretty Susan's were ...
... respect and admiration from their juniors in age and experience . Well might the appearance of the reverend stranger , then , form an era in the village history ; and little wonder that older and sager heads than the pretty Susan's were ...
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... respect and power to the influence of her own simple character ; strong in its un- pretending excellence , unaided by the pomp of circumstance or the dazzle of ceremony . But Error is a true aristocrat ; a despot , shut up in his massy ...
... respect and power to the influence of her own simple character ; strong in its un- pretending excellence , unaided by the pomp of circumstance or the dazzle of ceremony . But Error is a true aristocrat ; a despot , shut up in his massy ...
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... respects great measures ( and all such as above enumerated , are but trifling ; are but the lopping off of branches , not the severing of the root ) —as respects great measures , attempt but one at a time ; speak of but one at a time ...
... respects great measures ( and all such as above enumerated , are but trifling ; are but the lopping off of branches , not the severing of the root ) —as respects great measures , attempt but one at a time ; speak of but one at a time ...
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... respecting people will check the zeal of imprudence , and the intemperate haste of unreasoning or false - reckoning inexperience . They will begin well , that they may end well ; they will move slowly and firmly , that they may move ...
... respecting people will check the zeal of imprudence , and the intemperate haste of unreasoning or false - reckoning inexperience . They will begin well , that they may end well ; they will move slowly and firmly , that they may move ...
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... respect ; and I should be the last to speak or to think - harshly of their individual characters . Their principles I do not respect : I believe them to have been originally the principles of men who wished to tread on the necks of ...
... respect ; and I should be the last to speak or to think - harshly of their individual characters . Their principles I do not respect : I believe them to have been originally the principles of men who wished to tread on the necks of ...
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Page 5 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 6 - And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Page 2 - Therefore take no thought, saying: What shall we eat? Or, what shall we drink? Or, wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek.) For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 2 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 1 - But woman's is comparatively a fixed, a secluded, and a meditative life. She is more the companion of her own thoughts and feelings; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation! Her lot is to be wooed and won; and if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned and left desolate.
Page 20 - The mists boil up around the glaciers; clouds Rise curling fast beneath me, white and sulphury, Like foam from the roused ocean of deep Hell, Whose every wave breaks on a living shore, Heap'd with the damn'd like pebbles.— I am giddy.
Page 19 - ... otherwise, she buries it in the recesses of her bosom, and there lets it cower and brood among the ruins of her peace. With her the desire of the heart has failed. The great charm of existence is at an end. She neglects all the cheerful exercises which gladden the spirits, quicken the pulse, and send the tide of life in healthful currents through the veins.
Page 1 - Wishing, therefore, to remove from the minds of Your Eminences, and of every Catholic Christian, this vehement suspicion rightfully entertained towards me, with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I abjure, curse, and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally every other error and sect contrary to the...
Page 18 - Man is the creature of interest and ambition. His nature leads him forth into the struggle and bustle of the world. Love is but the embellishment of his early life, or a song piped in the intervals of the »cts. He seeks for fame, for fortune, for space in the world's thought, and dominion over his fellow men.