Library Magazine of American and Foreign ThoughtJ. B. Alden, 1888 - Choice literature |
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... body - unlike , yet vitally allied . Perchance their harmony is not that of duplicates but of counterparts . They were made not to overlap like concentric circles , but to interlock like toothed wheels . In the end , when partial ...
... body - unlike , yet vitally allied . Perchance their harmony is not that of duplicates but of counterparts . They were made not to overlap like concentric circles , but to interlock like toothed wheels . In the end , when partial ...
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... body of physical truth it puts the living soul of faith in the Divine Author . Like the blue heaven surrounding and spanning over the green earth , revelation over - arches and encircles science . Within that infinite embrace , beneath ...
... body of physical truth it puts the living soul of faith in the Divine Author . Like the blue heaven surrounding and spanning over the green earth , revelation over - arches and encircles science . Within that infinite embrace , beneath ...
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... body with rose - maloes which succeeds the ablution . But among the Kakhyens on the Burmese frontier , the relics of capture become again conspicuous . When the day which is to make a Kakhyen young man and maiden one 18 THE LIBRARY ...
... body with rose - maloes which succeeds the ablution . But among the Kakhyens on the Burmese frontier , the relics of capture become again conspicuous . When the day which is to make a Kakhyen young man and maiden one 18 THE LIBRARY ...
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... body , on the subject of Mohammedanism in Africa . There was much that was attractive to me in the proposal . It was a ques- tion which I had studied long and deeply . I was alive to its pro- found interest and importance . More than ...
... body , on the subject of Mohammedanism in Africa . There was much that was attractive to me in the proposal . It was a ques- tion which I had studied long and deeply . I was alive to its pro- found interest and importance . More than ...
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... body of Rolf the Ganger , who had accepted Neustria and Christianity together , for himself and for his roving Norse followers , was being buried , the gifts to the monasteries for the repose of his soul were accompanied by a sacrifice ...
... body of Rolf the Ganger , who had accepted Neustria and Christianity together , for himself and for his roving Norse followers , was being buried , the gifts to the monasteries for the repose of his soul were accompanied by a sacrifice ...
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Page 394 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 205 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Page 55 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Page 455 - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be...
Page 392 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Page 527 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 461 - A little further, to make thee a room : Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give. That I not mix thee so, my brain excuses, I mean with great, but...
Page 524 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 122 - I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts on a wholesale scale, more especially with respect to domesticated productions, by printed inquiries, by conversation with skilful breeders and gardeners, and by extensive reading.
Page 50 - Say there is one God alone — God the eternal ; He begetteth not and He is not begotten, And there is none like unto him.