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... England has for its most distinctive mark the religious sense of duty . It represents a people striving through successive generations to find out the right , and do it , to root out the wrong , and labor ever onward for the love of God ...
... England has for its most distinctive mark the religious sense of duty . It represents a people striving through successive generations to find out the right , and do it , to root out the wrong , and labor ever onward for the love of God ...
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... England before that time , being called by such names as Anglo - Saxon and Semi - Saxon , was quite another matter , was a literature so different from the English as to be almost an alien literature . This is a twofold mistake , his ...
... England before that time , being called by such names as Anglo - Saxon and Semi - Saxon , was quite another matter , was a literature so different from the English as to be almost an alien literature . This is a twofold mistake , his ...
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... England with his knowledge of its general , social , political , or military history in the same spaces of time , and thereby to see more truly how all these several expressions of the national life of England were swayed at every point ...
... England with his knowledge of its general , social , political , or military history in the same spaces of time , and thereby to see more truly how all these several expressions of the national life of England were swayed at every point ...
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... England , and thence spread thinly over both islands . Afterwards the Cymric Celts , who had been seated in Belgium and the north of France , being crowded and hustled by an advancing Teutonic tribe , fled across the Channel , landed on ...
... England , and thence spread thinly over both islands . Afterwards the Cymric Celts , who had been seated in Belgium and the north of France , being crowded and hustled by an advancing Teutonic tribe , fled across the Channel , landed on ...
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... England ; and from all lands opposite the castern coast of Britain , the Teutons kept coming over as colonists . 3. This process of change was continuous , and may have been so for some centuries before the hundred years between the ...
... England ; and from all lands opposite the castern coast of Britain , the Teutons kept coming over as colonists . 3. This process of change was continuous , and may have been so for some centuries before the hundred years between the ...
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Page 268 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page 388 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 548 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
Page 388 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 261 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?
Page 394 - New heavens, new earth, ages of endless date, Founded in righteousness, and peace, and love ; To bring forth fruits, joy and eternal bliss.
Page 288 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 398 - What the unsearchable dispose Of highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft he seems to hide his face, But unexpectedly returns, And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously ; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His uncontrollable intent ; His servants he, with new acquist Of true experience, from this great event, With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind, all passion spent.
Page 380 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account, but of my left hand.
Page 212 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...