Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 13

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Charles Dudley Warner
International Society, 1896
 

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Página 5436 - rainbows teach, and sunsets show ? Verdict which accumulates From lengthening scroll of human fates, Voice of earth to earth returned. Prayers of saints that inly burned,— Saying, What is excellent. As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts
Página 5220 - in his Word tolerate Christian States to give tolerations to such adversaries of his Truth, if they have power in their hands to suppress them." To set up toleration was " to build a sconce against the walls of heaven to batter God out of his chair,
Página 5437 - the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven. And one in our desire. The cannon booms from town to town. Our pulses beat not less, The joy-bells chime their tidings down, Which children's voices bless. For He that flung the broad blue fold O'er mantling land and sea,
Página 5431 - often in the cut he makes— Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names. The old men studied magic in the flowers, And human fortunes in astronomy, And an omnipotence in chemistry. Preferring things to names; for these were men, Were
Página 5362 - pooh, Macey, make yourself easy,' he says, 'it's neither the meaning nor the words—it's the register does it—that's the glue.' So you see he settled it easy; for parsons and doctors know everything by heart, like, so as they aren't worreted wi' thinking what's the rights and wrongs o
Página 5418 - yon receive, a tax is levied. He is great who confers the most benefits. He is base—and that is the one base thing in the universe—to receive favors and render none. In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for
Página 5308 - of the gods, Chiefest of all the gods, Lord of truth, father of the gods, Maker of men, creator of animals, Lord of the things which are, maker of fruit-trees, Maker of pasture, who causeth the cattle to live! Image made by Ptah,* youth fair of love! The gods give praise unto him;
Página 5380 - Mrs. Poyser paused to gasp a little—"and I know it's christened folks' duty to submit to their betters as fur as flesh and blood 'ull bear it; but I'll not make a martyr o' myself, and wear myself to skin and bone, and worret myself as if I was a churn wi
Página 5383 - none for worreting," said Mr. Poyser, rising from his three-cornered chair, and walking slowly towards the door; "but I should be loath to leave th' old place, and the parish where I was bred and born, and father afore me. We should leave our roots behind us, I doubt, and niver thrive again.
Página 5383 - Eh, it's no use worreting; there's plenty o' things may happen between this and Michaelmas twelvemonth. The captain may be master afore then, for what we know," said Mrs. Poyser, inclined to take an unusually hopeful view of an embarrassment which had been brought about by her own merit, and not by other people's fault.

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