From Grave to Gay: Being Essays and Studies Concerned with Certain Subjects of Serious Interest, with the Puritans, with Literature, and with the Humours of Life, Now for the First Time Collected and Arranged |
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... matter is very much like that of regular authors . I want to try my luck like the rest , and to see whether I cannot get a certain number of readers to agree with me on the topics I have chosen . I shall be specially pleased if I can do ...
... matter is very much like that of regular authors . I want to try my luck like the rest , and to see whether I cannot get a certain number of readers to agree with me on the topics I have chosen . I shall be specially pleased if I can do ...
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... matter . One word that is capable of touching the heart and moving the conscience of mankind is more potent , more prevailing , than the discovery of any trick , however strange and subtle , for harnessing the lightning or bringing ...
... matter . One word that is capable of touching the heart and moving the conscience of mankind is more potent , more prevailing , than the discovery of any trick , however strange and subtle , for harnessing the lightning or bringing ...
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... to think how perfectly happy and contented he used to be before any of them were invented . That is the bare truth ; all the mere superficial improvements matter little or nothing . What matter 6 STUDIES IN SERIOUSNESS.
... to think how perfectly happy and contented he used to be before any of them were invented . That is the bare truth ; all the mere superficial improvements matter little or nothing . What matter 6 STUDIES IN SERIOUSNESS.
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... matter little or nothing . What matter are the things of the spirit . When we can touch the spirit , but not till then , let us talk of making a new man in a new world . Anyone who chooses to think for a moment can see proof of what we ...
... matter little or nothing . What matter are the things of the spirit . When we can touch the spirit , but not till then , let us talk of making a new man in a new world . Anyone who chooses to think for a moment can see proof of what we ...
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... matter of certainty , not of conjecture . No doubt that may be a wild hypothesis , and we do not state it because we think it likely to happen , but merely by way of assumption . Still , supposing these spiritual discoveries were made ...
... matter of certainty , not of conjecture . No doubt that may be a wild hypothesis , and we do not state it because we think it likely to happen , but merely by way of assumption . Still , supposing these spiritual discoveries were made ...
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Page 201 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Page 186 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 202 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the Providence of God, must needs come, but which having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge...
Page 22 - Whose high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright : Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn : Abides by this resolve, and stops not there, But makes his moral being his prime care...
Page 202 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword...
Page 201 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
Page 207 - I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons, and yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which I am not quite satisfied with you.
Page 208 - What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good...
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Page 185 - ... of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation...