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... says : - The English have no right to get indignant with their Heir Apparent ; but it appears to me that they would do well on this occasion to make some slight reforms themselves . If they want princes to be prepared to act as kings ...
... says : - The English have no right to get indignant with their Heir Apparent ; but it appears to me that they would do well on this occasion to make some slight reforms themselves . If they want princes to be prepared to act as kings ...
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... says : - " These most practical and hard - handed and hard- headed of men were the greatest idealists in history , the most imperious and thorough in subordinating every in- terest of life to the power of their great faith and vision ...
... says : - " These most practical and hard - handed and hard- headed of men were the greatest idealists in history , the most imperious and thorough in subordinating every in- terest of life to the power of their great faith and vision ...
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... say of the character and policy of the young German em- peror . He says : As prince the present emperor was believed to be a devoted pupil of Prince Bismarck . The chancellor himself shared in this belief , and expected upon the advent ...
... say of the character and policy of the young German em- peror . He says : As prince the present emperor was believed to be a devoted pupil of Prince Bismarck . The chancellor himself shared in this belief , and expected upon the advent ...
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... says , " I think it may be said with truth that it yet remains to be demonstrated that an American college can be in an eminent degree successful in a large city , that it can in fact be much more than a local school . Though very large ...
... says , " I think it may be said with truth that it yet remains to be demonstrated that an American college can be in an eminent degree successful in a large city , that it can in fact be much more than a local school . Though very large ...
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... says Baron Hirsch , " I naturally thought of the United States , where the liberal constitution is a guarantee of happy development for the followers of all religious faiths : Yet I was obliged to confess that to in- crease to any great ...
... says Baron Hirsch , " I naturally thought of the United States , where the liberal constitution is a guarantee of happy development for the followers of all religious faiths : Yet I was obliged to confess that to in- crease to any great ...
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Page 413 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 47 - The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know ; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day...
Page 298 - I behold in thee An image of Him who died on the tree; Thou also hast had thy crown of thorns, Thou also hast had the world's buffets and scorns, And to thy life were not denied The wounds in the hands and feet and side: Mild Mary's Son, acknowledge me; Behold, through him, I give to thee!
Page 453 - If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
Page 301 - Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.
Page 292 - New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 298 - As Sir Launfal mused with a downcast face, A light shone round about the place ; The leper no longer crouched at his side, But stood before him glorified, Shining and tall and fair and straight As the pillar that stood by the Beautiful Gate, — Himself the Gate whereby men can Enter the temple of God in Man.
Page 296 - They were men of present valor, stalwart old iconoclasts; Unconvinced by axe or gibbet that all virtue was the Past's: But we make their truth our falsehood, thinking that hath made us free. Hoarding it in mouldy parchments, while our tender spirits flee The rude grasp of that great Impulse which drove them across the sea.
Page 298 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 43 - England, said. *We will not say, as the Separatists were wont to say at their leaving of England, Farewell, Babylon ! Farewell, Rome ! But we will say Farewell, dear England ! Farewell, the Church of God in England, and all the Christian friends there.