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... ambition can rear . Nothing is pure but heaven , let that be the prize you seek , " And taste and prove in that transporting sight , Joy without sorrow , without darkness - light . " ANGER . It doth appal me To see your anger AMBITION . 15.
... ambition can rear . Nothing is pure but heaven , let that be the prize you seek , " And taste and prove in that transporting sight , Joy without sorrow , without darkness - light . " ANGER . It doth appal me To see your anger AMBITION . 15.
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... light . He worships this world , but repudiates all its pleasures . He endures all the miseries of poverty through life , that he may die in the midst of wealth . He is the mere turnkey of his own riches a poor fed and bad clothed slave ...
... light . He worships this world , but repudiates all its pleasures . He endures all the miseries of poverty through life , that he may die in the midst of wealth . He is the mere turnkey of his own riches a poor fed and bad clothed slave ...
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... light ; and there was light , " it stands alone , clothed in the majesty of Divinity . As a Chronicle of the creation of man , after the moral image of Deity , of his ruinous fall , and of his subsequent mad career , it must remain ...
... light ; and there was light , " it stands alone , clothed in the majesty of Divinity . As a Chronicle of the creation of man , after the moral image of Deity , of his ruinous fall , and of his subsequent mad career , it must remain ...
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... light upon the wilderness of mind , that added fresh lustre and refulgence to those of Reason , Philosophy and Science , that had guided mankind to that auspicious , glorious era , when it burst upon the astonished world . As a book of ...
... light upon the wilderness of mind , that added fresh lustre and refulgence to those of Reason , Philosophy and Science , that had guided mankind to that auspicious , glorious era , when it burst upon the astonished world . As a book of ...
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... light , shed upon our country , by the luminaries of newly invented sys- tems of science . The under current of practical intel- ligence , fit for every day use , is sinking deeper and lower , beneath the foaming torrent of the upper ...
... light , shed upon our country , by the luminaries of newly invented sys- tems of science . The under current of practical intel- ligence , fit for every day use , is sinking deeper and lower , beneath the foaming torrent of the upper ...
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