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... tion , but for the whole of these defects . The only remedy for habits thus firmly established , obviously must lie in a patient , elementary process , adapted to form new habits . After a sufficient experiment to satisfy me that ...
... tion , but for the whole of these defects . The only remedy for habits thus firmly established , obviously must lie in a patient , elementary process , adapted to form new habits . After a sufficient experiment to satisfy me that ...
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... tion that can be given of the inflection , emphasis , and tones , which accompany emotion , can impart this emotion , or be a substitute for it . No adequate description indeed can be given of the nameless and ever varying shades of ...
... tion that can be given of the inflection , emphasis , and tones , which accompany emotion , can impart this emotion , or be a substitute for it . No adequate description indeed can be given of the nameless and ever varying shades of ...
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... tion of any sort , it requires nothing but proper words , in grammatical order . No principle of rhetoric is concerned in forming such a sentence , and none in uttering it , except distinctness . But the moment that passion speaks ...
... tion of any sort , it requires nothing but proper words , in grammatical order . No principle of rhetoric is concerned in forming such a sentence , and none in uttering it , except distinctness . But the moment that passion speaks ...
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... tion destitute of emotion , for it supposes feeling . It does not barely express the thoughts of an author , but expresses them with the force , variety , and beauty , which feeling demands . To this latter sort of reading would I bend ...
... tion destitute of emotion , for it supposes feeling . It does not barely express the thoughts of an author , but expresses them with the force , variety , and beauty , which feeling demands . To this latter sort of reading would I bend ...
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... tion of liquids , and happy arrangement of vowels and ac- cents . Not so when ift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o'e the bending corn , and skims along the main . A fourth difficulty arises from a tendency of the organs to slide over ...
... tion of liquids , and happy arrangement of vowels and ac- cents . Not so when ift Camilla scours the plain , Flies o'e the bending corn , and skims along the main . A fourth difficulty arises from a tendency of the organs to slide over ...
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Page 131 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying; Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
Page 130 - And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart, to pray : and when the evening, was come, he was there alone.
Page 132 - And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
Page 112 - And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bond-man, and every free-man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains ; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb : for the great day of His wrath is come ; and who shall be able to stand...
Page 287 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Page 288 - Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 93 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 287 - Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Page 123 - And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.
Page 132 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.