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... nature is understood . This cannot be doubted . It is in the natural course of things that it should purify itself gradually from whatever is objectionable in its institutions . Nor is it beyond the bounds of reasonable hope , that ...
... nature is understood . This cannot be doubted . It is in the natural course of things that it should purify itself gradually from whatever is objectionable in its institutions . Nor is it beyond the bounds of reasonable hope , that ...
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... nature is therewith in such sort drained , that now we need it not , neither may we longer use it ; or if it stand us in any stead , yet as Aristotle speak- eth of men whom Nature hath framed for the state of servitude , saying , They ...
... nature is therewith in such sort drained , that now we need it not , neither may we longer use it ; or if it stand us in any stead , yet as Aristotle speak- eth of men whom Nature hath framed for the state of servitude , saying , They ...
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... nature is unnaturally pleased : And what's unnatural , is painful too At intervals , and must disgust e'en thee ! The fact thou knowest ; but not , perhaps , the cause . Virtue's foundations with the world's were laid ; Heaven mix'd her ...
... nature is unnaturally pleased : And what's unnatural , is painful too At intervals , and must disgust e'en thee ! The fact thou knowest ; but not , perhaps , the cause . Virtue's foundations with the world's were laid ; Heaven mix'd her ...
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... Nature ! what hadst thou to do in hell , When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh ? Was ever book , containing such vile matter , So fairly bound ? O , that deceit should dwell In such a ...
... Nature ! what hadst thou to do in hell , When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh ? Was ever book , containing such vile matter , So fairly bound ? O , that deceit should dwell In such a ...
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... nature does not change so suddenly ; the light of goodness illuming the soul of the libertine , is but too often a tran- sient , meteoric glare , which leaves it in greater darkness , from the vividness of its sudden flash . Nothing ...
... nature does not change so suddenly ; the light of goodness illuming the soul of the libertine , is but too often a tran- sient , meteoric glare , which leaves it in greater darkness , from the vividness of its sudden flash . Nothing ...
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Seite 474 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Seite 486 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Seite 117 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Seite 198 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Seite 485 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this ; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Seite 202 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Seite 487 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day. — " Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Seite 203 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Seite 202 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Seite 168 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.