Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 110Scribner & Company, 1925 |
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... Mean to Us . Irwin Edman 449 A. M. Hassanein 160 .Glen Mullin 50 .Sarah N. Cleghorn 26 Glen Mullin 50 Further Adventures of a Young American . SAINTS OF THE DESERT ... Aspects of Puritanism among the Bedouins . SCHOLAR - TRAMP , FURTHER ...
... Mean to Us . Irwin Edman 449 A. M. Hassanein 160 .Glen Mullin 50 .Sarah N. Cleghorn 26 Glen Mullin 50 Further Adventures of a Young American . SAINTS OF THE DESERT ... Aspects of Puritanism among the Bedouins . SCHOLAR - TRAMP , FURTHER ...
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... mean spiritually taxed . He is com- pelled by the nature of his function to share in the joys and the sorrows of his parishioners . He must go from a wedding to a funeral not only the same day , but sometimes in the same hour . He is ...
... mean spiritually taxed . He is com- pelled by the nature of his function to share in the joys and the sorrows of his parishioners . He must go from a wedding to a funeral not only the same day , but sometimes in the same hour . He is ...
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... mean conscious and deliberate pretense , but an involuntary pretense . He must hide his real feelings . He must put on a covering of formula and make believe . I am not suggesting that the average minister is subject to great failings ...
... mean conscious and deliberate pretense , but an involuntary pretense . He must hide his real feelings . He must put on a covering of formula and make believe . I am not suggesting that the average minister is subject to great failings ...
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... mean , too weak , too repulsive ; he is literally every one's servant , and an unpaid servant . You have to pay your doctor , you have to pay your lawyer ; but you can take your troubles to the minister for nothing , and , what is more ...
... mean , too weak , too repulsive ; he is literally every one's servant , and an unpaid servant . You have to pay your doctor , you have to pay your lawyer ; but you can take your troubles to the minister for nothing , and , what is more ...
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... mean he must appeal to those things about which the community's senti- ment is closely knit . That makes him platitudinous . Having to say so much he can say only very little , and that a repetition of things said before . I am far from ...
... mean he must appeal to those things about which the community's senti- ment is closely knit . That makes him platitudinous . Having to say so much he can say only very little , and that a repetition of things said before . I am far from ...
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Page 338 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Page 437 - Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man ! And when their statues are placed on high, Under the dome of the Union sky, The American soldier's Temple of Fame, — There with the glorious General's name, Be it said, in letters both bold and bright, " Here is the steed that saved the day By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester, twenty miles away!
Page 475 - Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Page 472 - tis enough. He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him.
Page 471 - But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror. Over Descartian vortices you hover. And perhaps, at mid-day, in the fairest weather, with one half-throttled shriek you drop through that transparent air into the summer sea, no more to rise for ever. Heed it well, ye Pantheists!
Page 625 - We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
Page 471 - There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
Page 620 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 696 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Page 473 - Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself.