Putnam's Monthly, Band 4G.P. Putnam & Company, 1854 |
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... existence during his infantile years ; nor can his race , ex- cept from a superior source . give any of the particulars of its life , previous to a certain time . when it may be supposed to have emerged from its infancy . Yet , as a man ...
... existence during his infantile years ; nor can his race , ex- cept from a superior source . give any of the particulars of its life , previous to a certain time . when it may be supposed to have emerged from its infancy . Yet , as a man ...
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... existence , that man developes his higher powers , acquires knowledge , and overcomes the natural obstructions and limitations of his existence . He is , indeed , only the true man to the extent in which he has made himself master of ...
... existence , that man developes his higher powers , acquires knowledge , and overcomes the natural obstructions and limitations of his existence . He is , indeed , only the true man to the extent in which he has made himself master of ...
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... existence of Christianity depends upon the literal truth of those passages , which seem to declare that all mankind are the descendants of a single man , Adam , or a single man , Noah , be- trays a most gross and superficial con ...
... existence of Christianity depends upon the literal truth of those passages , which seem to declare that all mankind are the descendants of a single man , Adam , or a single man , Noah , be- trays a most gross and superficial con ...
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... existence are indescribably various . Some subsist on snakes , worms , and roots ; others eat their grandfathers as a favor to them and ser- vice to God ; while others have three hun- dred and sixty - five methods of cooking a potato ...
... existence are indescribably various . Some subsist on snakes , worms , and roots ; others eat their grandfathers as a favor to them and ser- vice to God ; while others have three hun- dred and sixty - five methods of cooking a potato ...
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... existence of con- tending races . But for the wonderful ac- cumulation of evidence on this head , we must refer our readers to the books . It is proper to add , that there is a dispute among learned and Christian scholars as to the true ...
... existence of con- tending races . But for the wonderful ac- cumulation of evidence on this head , we must refer our readers to the books . It is proper to add , that there is a dispute among learned and Christian scholars as to the true ...
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Seite 319 - Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity ; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels
Seite 384 - Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear.
Seite 446 - I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.
Seite 306 - Water is good to drink, coal to burn, wool to wear ; but wool cannot be drunk, nor water spun, nor coal eaten. The wise man shows his wisdom in separation, in gradation, and his scale of creatures and of merits is as wide as nature.
Seite 81 - Judenstrass, in mirk and mire ; Taught in the school of patience to endure. The life of anguish and the death of fire. All their lives long, with the unleavened bread And bitter herbs of exile and its fears, The wasting famine of the heart they fed, And slaked its thirst with marah of their tears.
Seite 25 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But O, sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek.
Seite 381 - And sometime make the drink to bear no barm ; Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm ? Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck, You do their work, and they shall have good luck : Are not you he ? Puck.
Seite 448 - I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Seite 506 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Seite 447 - I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in disgust.