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Page 75 - Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger and ye took me not in; naked and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Page 109 - Why, a pygmy among giants ! But if thou lovest, — mark me ! I say lovest, The greatest of thy sex excels thee not ! The world of the affections is thy world, Not that of man's ambition. In that stillness Which most becomes a woman, calm and holy, Thou sittest by the fireside of the heart, feeding its name.
Page 5 - Though we have the gift of prophecy and understand all mystery and all knowledge, and though we have all faith so that we could remove mountains, and have not charity, we shall be nothing.
Page 113 - Oh, if there is one law above the rest Written in wisdom — if there is a word That I would trace as with a pen of fire Upon the unsunn'd temper of a child — If there is any thing that keeps the mind Open to angel visits, and repels The ministry of ill — 'tis human love ! God has made nothing worthy of contempt.
Page 3 - THE true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and the hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show. BIGOTRY murders religion, to frighten fools with her ghost.
Page 60 - Were they a colony from Greece ? Did they come from that land in the days of its proud glory, bringing with them a knowledge of arts, science, and philosophy? Did they, too, seek a home across the western waters, because they loved liberty in a strange land better than they loved slavery at home ? Or what may be as probable, were they the descendants of some band who managed to escape the destruction of ill-fated Troy? the descendants of a people who had called Greece a mothe'r country, but were...
Page 58 - might be. We only know they were. What proof and evidence do we gather from their remains, which have withstood the test of time, of their origin and probable era of their existence? That they existed centuries ago, is evident from the size which forest trees have attained, which grow upon the mounds and fortifications discovered. That they were civilized, and understood the arts, is apparent from the manner of laying out and erecting their fortifications, and from various utensils of gold, copper,...
Page 158 - I knew that my mother, and my sister, (the last ties of kindred) slept beneath the surface of the grave-yard. And yet, an impulse, or destiny I could not withstand, had sent me there to see how much my callous soul could bear. I shunned not the infliction of mental agony ; I refined the torture of my spirit ; I sought the home of my childhood, when I knew that every voice that. had created the melody of its happiness, was hushed in death. I stood by the graves of the loved ones ; I asked why they...
Page 68 - ... this phase of human nature we can see why a wife's reproof generally drives her husband from her. It is like self-accusation without the mollient of self-justification. And we sincerely question whether a wife's admonition, in nine cases out of ten, ever accomplished any thing but the estrangement of her husband's affections. A man so lost to the influence of duty and moral justice, that he will pursue a headlong downward career, in spite of his own reason and conscience, will not listen calmly...
Page 59 - ... acquainted with chemical discoveries, which are supposed to have been unknown until a period much later than the probable time of their existence. That they were not the ancestors of the race which inhabited this country at the time of its discovery by Columbus, appears conclusive from the total ignorance of the Indian tribes of all knowledge of arts and civilization, and the non-existence of any tradition of their once proud sway. That they were a mighty people is evident from the extent of...