Boston Monday Lectures: Marriage

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Osgood, 1884
 

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Page 40 - Look ! in this place ran Cassius' dagger through ; See what a rent the envious Casca made ; Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabbed ; And as he plucked the cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of
Page 213 - his best hope for the future, and you will find it high, but not so high as Plato's. " The woman's cause is man's : they rise or sink Together, dwarfed or God-like, bond or free. If she be small, slightnatured, miserable, How shall men grow ? but work no more alone I
Page 42 - Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf • . . . but his doom Reserved him to more wrath ; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate.
Page 106 - When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life like unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but once.
Page 239 - Are footpaths for the thought heredity ! Its fame is blown abroad from all the heights, Through all the nations ; and a sound is heard As of a mighty wind ; and men devout, Strangers of Home, and the new proselytes, In their own language hear
Page 112 - we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe" (1 Tim. iv. 10), I understand this language to refer to God's universal providential care. When I find it affirmed in the Scriptures that " all the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds and nations shall worship before him
Page 142 - Forever round the Mercy-seat The guiding lights of Love shall burn : But what if, habit-bound, thy feet Shall lack the will to turn? " What if thine eye refuse to see, Thine ear of heaven's free welcome fail, And thou a willing captive be, Thyself thy own dark jail
Page 182 - Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might, Smote the chord of self, which, trembling, passed in
Page 160 - He is the half part of a blessed man Left to be finished by such as she ; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.
Page 201 - me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud ; Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble ; And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstained wife to my sweet love." Romeo and Juliet, act iv. sc. 1. This is the

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