Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man: Selected from Notes of Unpublished SermonsC. W. Slack, 1865 - 430 páginas |
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... hundred years ago . They put it in the ground in Italy , and the power which those little grains had kept so long waked up bright , and grew wheat there , just as if nothing had happened since Sesostris marched his Egyptians , and set ...
... hundred years ago . They put it in the ground in Italy , and the power which those little grains had kept so long waked up bright , and grew wheat there , just as if nothing had happened since Sesostris marched his Egyptians , and set ...
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... hundred years ago and the New - England of to - day , was all a reserved power once . The Merrimac was the same river to the Indian that it is now to the American ; the ground and sky were the same ; the earth does not secrete a ...
... hundred years ago and the New - England of to - day , was all a reserved power once . The Merrimac was the same river to the Indian that it is now to the American ; the ground and sky were the same ; the earth does not secrete a ...
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... hundred . " When you go in , if , in addition to agricultural and political newspapers and farming books devoted to sober use , you should find a basket - full of other books , volumes of poetry , the choicest in the world , — Homer ...
... hundred . " When you go in , if , in addition to agricultural and political newspapers and farming books devoted to sober use , you should find a basket - full of other books , volumes of poetry , the choicest in the world , — Homer ...
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... hundred miles if you will , and send your thought as fast as you please , only make your road where you want to go , let your thought lead the way , and the lightning of heaven will be sure to follow . " Man wants to cipher . A smooth ...
... hundred miles if you will , and send your thought as fast as you please , only make your road where you want to go , let your thought lead the way , and the lightning of heaven will be sure to follow . " Man wants to cipher . A smooth ...
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... hundred years ! How would men look forward to it , and old men who had beheld its wonders tell the story to their children , how once all the homely trees became beautiful , and earth was covered with freshness and new growth . How ...
... hundred years ! How would men look forward to it , and old men who had beheld its wonders tell the story to their children , how once all the homely trees became beautiful , and earth was covered with freshness and new growth . How ...
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Página 170 - O Lord, how manifold are, thy works ! In wisdom hast thou made them all : The earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.
Página 136 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears; "Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in Heaven expect thy meed.
Página 178 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Página 60 - If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?
Página 358 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him : and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
Página 115 - Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement ; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a, fool at the other.
Página 244 - Thou hast made the blind to see, The deaf to hear, the dumb to speak, The dead to live ; and lo, I break The chains of my captivity.
Página 377 - Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe...
Página 232 - The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.— THEODORE PARKER.
Página 131 - This man of half a million Had all these public virtues which you praise : But the poor man rung never at his door, And the old beggar, at the public gate, Who, all the summer long, stands hat in hand, He knew how vain it was to lift an eye To that hard face. Yet he was always found Among your ten and twenty pound subscribers, Your benefactors in the newspapers.