Littell's Living Age, Volume 131Living Age Company Incorporated, 1876 - American periodicals |
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... turned upward VOL . XVI . 784 LIVING AGE . On a small spot of green sward high up on the brow of the hill , and screened by a tall , fern - crested rock from the hot rays of the declining sun , Kowar was lying at full length in the ...
... turned upward VOL . XVI . 784 LIVING AGE . On a small spot of green sward high up on the brow of the hill , and screened by a tall , fern - crested rock from the hot rays of the declining sun , Kowar was lying at full length in the ...
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... turned away from Jerusalem , Thy city , and Thy holy mountain ; for it is on account of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors that Jerusalem and Thy people are become objects of re- proach to all who surround us . Now , there ...
... turned away from Jerusalem , Thy city , and Thy holy mountain ; for it is on account of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors that Jerusalem and Thy people are become objects of re- proach to all who surround us . Now , there ...
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... turned aside to the right at the point where the ascent began . The mag- nanimity which had no place in the soul of the divine Julius had a place in the soul of the peasant's son of Sirmium . As Aure- lian went up to offer his ...
... turned aside to the right at the point where the ascent began . The mag- nanimity which had no place in the soul of the divine Julius had a place in the soul of the peasant's son of Sirmium . As Aure- lian went up to offer his ...
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... turned by unex - guises to be cast aside . pected greatness . There was nothing had practically become master of the about him of the insolence of the upstart , commonwealth . Everybody knew the fact . nothing of the vanity which ...
... turned by unex - guises to be cast aside . pected greatness . There was nothing had practically become master of the about him of the insolence of the upstart , commonwealth . Everybody knew the fact . nothing of the vanity which ...
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... turned into his neighbor and spiritual pastor . * But this was not till the first empire of the West had passed away . Nepos , in his Dalmatian home , lived to see the patrician Odoacer dwelling in the palace of Raven- na , in name the ...
... turned into his neighbor and spiritual pastor . * But this was not till the first empire of the West had passed away . Nepos , in his Dalmatian home , lived to see the patrician Odoacer dwelling in the palace of Raven- na , in name the ...
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Page 192 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every Man in arms should wish to be ? It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his childish thought...
Page 58 - THE LORD hear thee in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob defend thee. Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion.
Page 139 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Page 499 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 4 - Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me ; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny. What matter if I stand alone ? I wait with joy the coming years ; My heart shall reap where it has sown, And garner up its fruit of tears.
Page 204 - When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things...
Page 492 - The Castle of Otranto, a Story, translated by William Marshal, Gent, from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.
Page 139 - It gave unity to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion; the inculcation and diffusion of which could be made the principal outward purpose of a life.
Page 143 - Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.
Page 143 - Memoires," and came to the passage which relates his father's death, the distressed position of the family, and the sudden inspiration by which he, then a mere boy, felt and made them feel that he would be everything to them — would supply the place of all that they had lost.