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... feelings awakened by public events , f a nature to blend with the emotions of taste , or to admit E that pleasing exaggeration which it is the business of the et to produce . The poet himself , in venturing upon a political eme , finds ...
... feelings awakened by public events , f a nature to blend with the emotions of taste , or to admit E that pleasing exaggeration which it is the business of the et to produce . The poet himself , in venturing upon a political eme , finds ...
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... feelings are less easily excited . Men have learned to define their wants , to suppress from necessity or policy their emotions , to calculate , to fear , and to balance pre- sent interest against the indefinite objects which lead on ...
... feelings are less easily excited . Men have learned to define their wants , to suppress from necessity or policy their emotions , to calculate , to fear , and to balance pre- sent interest against the indefinite objects which lead on ...
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... feelings , but cold adulation , unmeaning boasts , empty predictions , and common place sen- timent ? A man way be a true poet , and yet , if , on the ticular subject which he undertakes , he does not feel as a poet , -if this ...
... feelings , but cold adulation , unmeaning boasts , empty predictions , and common place sen- timent ? A man way be a true poet , and yet , if , on the ticular subject which he undertakes , he does not feel as a poet , -if this ...
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... feelings tending to encourage a martial spirit in the bosoms of his countrymen , at a time when there is a general outcry against the prevalence of these dispositions ! -The nation would err grievously , if she suffered the abuse which ...
... feelings tending to encourage a martial spirit in the bosoms of his countrymen , at a time when there is a general outcry against the prevalence of these dispositions ! -The nation would err grievously , if she suffered the abuse which ...
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... feelings of mankind . The almost general mode of accounting for it on the Continent , is by a supposition that England purposely let him loose from Elba in order to have a pretext for again attacking France , and crippling a country ...
... feelings of mankind . The almost general mode of accounting for it on the Continent , is by a supposition that England purposely let him loose from Elba in order to have a pretext for again attacking France , and crippling a country ...
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Page 416 - Will you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word...
Page 605 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 589 - Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee ; take away this cup from me: nevertheless, not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Page 588 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 174 - IT is certain by God's word, that children which are baptized, dying before they commit actual sin, are undoubtedly saved.
Page 414 - City, and holding a pure faith in the unity of the Spirit and in the bond of peace...
Page 383 - Alastor may be considered as allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind. It represents a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination inflamed and purified through familiarity with all that is excellent and majestic, to the contemplation of the universe.
Page 391 - Die, he or justice must ; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction ; death for death.
Page 359 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 47 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.