Littell's Living Age, Volume 99Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1868 |
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Page 61
... persons deficient in them she looked at with a distant , reproving look . " As an instance of her kindness is cited her conduct in reference to a bunch of grapes which she administered to her father ; and the angelic way in which she ...
... persons deficient in them she looked at with a distant , reproving look . " As an instance of her kindness is cited her conduct in reference to a bunch of grapes which she administered to her father ; and the angelic way in which she ...
Page 63
... persons . " very interesting children who , as Dr. Holmes another place the same plain country parson remarks , have shown a wonderful indiffer- stands up for the old - fashioned Church Cate - ence to the things of earth , and an ...
... persons . " very interesting children who , as Dr. Holmes another place the same plain country parson remarks , have shown a wonderful indiffer- stands up for the old - fashioned Church Cate - ence to the things of earth , and an ...
Page 136
... persons can walk upon their hands instead of their feet , that a woman in flesh tights can make a handsome income by exhibiting on the trapeze or the back of a horse , and that girls can be philosophied out of the remnant of a blush ...
... persons can walk upon their hands instead of their feet , that a woman in flesh tights can make a handsome income by exhibiting on the trapeze or the back of a horse , and that girls can be philosophied out of the remnant of a blush ...
Page 159
... persons the following extract will pos- sess the charm of novelty , if it have no other recommendation : " I am satisfied that we make a mistake in considering the Dissent of England , especially as manifested in greatest intensity in ...
... persons the following extract will pos- sess the charm of novelty , if it have no other recommendation : " I am satisfied that we make a mistake in considering the Dissent of England , especially as manifested in greatest intensity in ...
Page 162
... person finds a difficulty in understanding , because with him falsehood must be cast out before truth can come in . But ... persons is the desire of talk about the worm - eaten fabric of effete infusing into American society some of the ...
... person finds a difficulty in understanding , because with him falsehood must be cast out before truth can come in . But ... persons is the desire of talk about the worm - eaten fabric of effete infusing into American society some of the ...
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Page 311 - Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 460 - ... the passage from' the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 286 - That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor call'd the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 448 - The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Page 47 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on Earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner...
Page 461 - ... to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain ; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the • solution of the problem, ' How are these physical processes...
Page 199 - Until they won her ; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Page 80 - Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe — is it, like Sorrow, merely an element of human education, through which we struggle to a higher and purer state than we could otherwise have attained? Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?
Page 448 - Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.