Labour & Triumph: The Life and Times of Hugh MillerR. Griffin and Company, 1858 - 315 sivua |
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... things because we have any pleasure in calling attention to the failings and shortcomings of one of whom Scotland has so much reason to be proud . Nor do we homologate , in any measure , the untenable opinion held by certain narrow ...
... things because we have any pleasure in calling attention to the failings and shortcomings of one of whom Scotland has so much reason to be proud . Nor do we homologate , in any measure , the untenable opinion held by certain narrow ...
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... things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy . And those dreams and visions of which we sometimes hear the wondrous story , may they not have their origin in mental phenomena which the plummet of philosophy will never ...
... things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy . And those dreams and visions of which we sometimes hear the wondrous story , may they not have their origin in mental phenomena which the plummet of philosophy will never ...
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... things - sought above all else to know the central prin- ciple around which the details , either of business or of study , grouped themselves . In this strongly - marked mental peculiarity is embodied a very pregnant hint for ...
... things - sought above all else to know the central prin- ciple around which the details , either of business or of study , grouped themselves . In this strongly - marked mental peculiarity is embodied a very pregnant hint for ...
Sivu 27
... been just about the kind of collec- tion to suit the versatile tastes of young Miller . The aim of the Useful Knowledge Society was no doubt excellent , and , like most things done with good intentions , THE DAME'S AND GRAMMAR SCHOOLS . 27.
... been just about the kind of collec- tion to suit the versatile tastes of young Miller . The aim of the Useful Knowledge Society was no doubt excellent , and , like most things done with good intentions , THE DAME'S AND GRAMMAR SCHOOLS . 27.
Sivu 28
... things done with good intentions , it was productive of some beneficial results . It failed , however , because it attempted to make of the rugged steep man must climb in quest of knowledge , never to be scaled without earnest toil and ...
... things done with good intentions , it was productive of some beneficial results . It failed , however , because it attempted to make of the rugged steep man must climb in quest of knowledge , never to be scaled without earnest toil and ...
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Sivu 236 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Sivu 313 - He is gone who seem'd so great. Gone; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. Speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him. God accept him, Christ receive him.
Sivu 231 - Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past. Then the few whose spirits float above the wreck of happiness, Are driven o'er the shoals of guilt or ocean of excess : The magnet of their course is gone, or only points in vain The shore to which their shivered sail shall never stretch again. Then the mortal coldness of the soul like death itself comes down; It cannot feel for others...
Sivu 279 - There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us. Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
Sivu 4 - Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.
Sivu 278 - Everything was bolted and barred that could by possibility furnish relief to an overworked people. No pictures, no unfamiliar animals, no rare plants or flowers, no natural or artificial wonders of the ancient world — all taboo with that enlightened strictness, that the ugly South Sea gods in the British Museum might have supposed themselves at home again. Nothing to see bur streets, streets, streets. Nothing to breathe but streets, streets, streets.
Sivu 276 - Ah ! Easily said. I am the son, Mr. Meagles, of a hard father and mother. I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything : for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence. Strict people as the phrase is, professors of a stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy sacrifice of tastes and sympathies that were never their own, offered up as a part of a bargain for the security of their possessions. Austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance...
Sivu 305 - No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail ! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
Sivu 273 - Ah! could you but see Bet Bouncer of these parts, you might then talk of beauty. Ecod, she has two eyes as black as sloes, and cheeks as broad and red as a pulpit cushion.
Sivu 309 - Dearest Lydia. — My brain burns. I must have walked ; and a fearful dream rises upon me. I cannot bear the horrible thought. God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ have mercy upon me. Dearest Lydia, dear children, farewell. My brain burns as the recollection grows. My dear, dear wife, farewell. HUGH MILLER.