Writings of Severn Teackle Wallis, Volumen1J. Murphy, 1896 |
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... earth , to his toiling oar , can acquire from his own experience , unless he be strangely constituted , or from his observation of other people , any very lofty idea of the dignity of labor in itself . Respect- ing , for one , as far as ...
... earth , to his toiling oar , can acquire from his own experience , unless he be strangely constituted , or from his observation of other people , any very lofty idea of the dignity of labor in itself . Respect- ing , for one , as far as ...
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... earth . We must deal with the rule - though we be thankful for the exceptions . In Holbein's Dance of Death - that marvellous series of grim portraitures - is painted the coming of the fatal mes- senger to men of every condition , as ...
... earth . We must deal with the rule - though we be thankful for the exceptions . In Holbein's Dance of Death - that marvellous series of grim portraitures - is painted the coming of the fatal mes- senger to men of every condition , as ...
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... earth - the flowers that give it perfume , and the fruits and foliage that make it glad — there are needful the calm ... earth's breast ! It is impossible to look on the most wondrous scenes of physical grandeur , where the convulsions ...
... earth - the flowers that give it perfume , and the fruits and foliage that make it glad — there are needful the calm ... earth's breast ! It is impossible to look on the most wondrous scenes of physical grandeur , where the convulsions ...
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... earth . It has swept the forests from half a hemisphere around us , and has filled it with a mighty , feverish , restless , pallid people capable of everything but rational enjoyment and tranquil happiness . Is there a nation , think ...
... earth . It has swept the forests from half a hemisphere around us , and has filled it with a mighty , feverish , restless , pallid people capable of everything but rational enjoyment and tranquil happiness . Is there a nation , think ...
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... earth and heaven . Why should we provide means of enjoyment , for the leisure of people who have no leisure ? Has not Poor Richard said that " leisure is time for doing something useful ? " " Get all you can , and what you get hold , Is ...
... earth and heaven . Why should we provide means of enjoyment , for the leisure of people who have no leisure ? Has not Poor Richard said that " leisure is time for doing something useful ? " " Get all you can , and what you get hold , Is ...
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Assembly of Maryland Baltimore beauty better bless called charity citizen committee course death dreams duty eyes faculties feel flowers Fort McHenry Fort Warren Fortress Monroe fortune friends Gentlemen George Peabody give Greenmount Cemetery hand happy hath heart Heaven honor hope hour human Institute intellectual John Edmondson John McDonogh knew labor lawyer learned less liberal life's light live look Lord manhood manly Maryland McDonogh means memory ment mind moral nature never noble Northampton counties o'er ourselves Peabody Institute pleasure political practical pride profession professional pursuit regard reverence ROGER BROOKE TANEY sense Severn Teackle Severn Teackle Wallis smile society sorrow soul speak spirit struggle sweet sympathy Talbot county tastes teach Teackle Wallis thee thine things thou thought tion to-day toil true truth Wallis's wealth wise woman's vengeance worship
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Página 3 - Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.
Página 15 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Página 126 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Página 146 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Página 162 - A good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man, out of the evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Página 133 - God forbid that it should be imagined that an attorney or a counsel or even a judge, is bound to know all the law, or that an attorney is to lose his fair recompense on account of an error, being such an error as a cautious man might fall into.
Página 24 - A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong: and a huckster shall not be freed from sin.
Página 121 - is found experimentally to be best promoted by the opposite efforts of practised and ingenious men, presenting to the selection of an impartial judge the best arguments for the establishment and explanation of truth.
Página 11 - I should, said he, Bestow this Jewell also on my creature, He would adore my gifts in stead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature : So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessnesse : Let him be rich and wearie, that at least, If goodnesse leade him not, yet wearinesse May tosse him to my breast.