Pictures in print, being recollections in rhyme and pencillings in proseM. Wilson, 1851 - 184 pages |
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... morals ye teach , for your counsel I need ; Though cold now the fingers your lines that erst drew , Your maxims are sage as your friendship is true . Here's a casket of gems , enclasped with love knot , By fairy hand sent - can first ...
... morals ye teach , for your counsel I need ; Though cold now the fingers your lines that erst drew , Your maxims are sage as your friendship is true . Here's a casket of gems , enclasped with love knot , By fairy hand sent - can first ...
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... moral and reli- gious growth . - DR . CHANNING . WE are reminded that , looking from its highest emin- ence on the greatest city in the world , our thoughts may assume a somewhat flighty character , but , while so ruminating , a few ...
... moral and reli- gious growth . - DR . CHANNING . WE are reminded that , looking from its highest emin- ence on the greatest city in the world , our thoughts may assume a somewhat flighty character , but , while so ruminating , a few ...
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... morality , everything , in- deed , everybody , owe much . It has dispelled the mists of the dark ages , and broken down the ... moral promise , and , ere many years have elapsed , the world will present itself as gold from the crucible ...
... morality , everything , in- deed , everybody , owe much . It has dispelled the mists of the dark ages , and broken down the ... moral promise , and , ere many years have elapsed , the world will present itself as gold from the crucible ...
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... moral and political regenerator of the age in which we live . It possesses in itself a power for good or for evil , which has extensively contributed to the taste , comfort , amusement , and instruction of the world . By its invention ...
... moral and political regenerator of the age in which we live . It possesses in itself a power for good or for evil , which has extensively contributed to the taste , comfort , amusement , and instruction of the world . By its invention ...
Page 152
... morals - the pride of character and not of caste the wealth of worth , and not the dust which decays - the sunlight of reason , and not the borrowed moonlight of mere filthy lucre , be that which is most highly prized amongst us ; and ...
... morals - the pride of character and not of caste the wealth of worth , and not the dust which decays - the sunlight of reason , and not the borrowed moonlight of mere filthy lucre , be that which is most highly prized amongst us ; and ...
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Page 112 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 165 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question whether he himself have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property and life and the peace of society are secured.
Page 147 - This BOOKS can do; - nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise, Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise: Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone: Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd...
Page 177 - There's a good time coming, boys, A good time coming: The pen shall supersede the sword ; And Right, not Might, shall be the lord In the good time coming. Worth, not Birth, shall rule mankind, And be acknowledged stronger; The proper impulse has been given; — Wait a little longer.
Page 158 - Was seen beneath the sun ; but nought was seen More beautiful, or excellent, or fair, Than face of faithful friend, fairest when seen In darkest day; and many sounds were sweet, Most ravishing, and pleasant to the ear; But sweeter none than voice of faithful friend, Sweet always, sweetest, heard in loudest storm. Some I remember, and will ne'er forget; My early friends, friends of my evil day; Friends in my mirth, friends in my misery too ; Friends given by God in mercy and in love; My counsellors,...
Page 46 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
Page 132 - With aching temples on thy hand reclined, Muse on the last farewell I leave behind, Breathe a deep sigh to winds that murmur low, And think on all my love, and all my woe...
Page 165 - We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property and life and the peace of society are secured. We seek to prevent, in some measure, the extension of the penal code, by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age. We hope to excite a feeling of respectability and a sense of character by enlarging the capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment.
Page 165 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law, and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime. We hope for a security, beyond the law, and above the law, in the prevalence of enlightened and well-principled moral sentiment.
Page 85 - The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley he has viewed ; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart, The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart.