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Page 207 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die ; Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred.
Page 315 - KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE. TAX not the royal Saint * with vain expense, With ill-matched aims the Architect who planned — Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed Scholars only — this immense And glorious Work of fine intelligence...
Page 315 - Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white-robed Scholars only — this immense And glorious Work of fine intelligence! Give all thou canst ; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness...
Page 56 - She hung up the new moons in the skies, and cut up the old ones into stars. In times of drought, if properly propitiated, she would spin light summer clouds out of cobwebs and morning dew, and send them off from the crest of the mountain, flake after flake, like flakes...
Page 263 - Down at the cross where my Saviour died. Down where for cleansing from sin I cried, There to my heart was the blood applied , Glory to His name.
Page 307 - It may not be our lot to wield The sickle in the ripened field ; Nor ours to hear, on summer eves, The reaper's song among the sheaves. Yet where our duty's task is wrought In unison with God's great thought, The near and future blend in one, And whatsoe'er is willed, is done...
Page 6 - Not a cloud doth arise to darken my skies, Or hide for a moment my Lord from my eyes.
Page 313 - Providence ordains the times and seasons according to an infinite wisdom, and raises up men to accomplish the exalted purposes of Jehovah. Educated carefully at home and abroad, gifted with an imagination that frescos the future with the actualities of the present, endowed with the rare power of organization to prepare great plans for the oncoming generations, it comes to us more and more that in the roll of the centuries, in the ordering of time, God Almighty, the God of our fathers, bas selected...
Page 426 - HISTORY OF RATIONALISM : embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology. By the Rev. John F. Hurst, AM With Appendix of Literature. Revised and enlarged from the Third American Edition. Crown 8vo, pp. xvii. and 525, cloth.
Page 8 - ... of its own and has claims upon attention. Its situation is interesting; its population has a marked character; its products are valuable and are in demand everywhere in this land and in many places outside of America, and its fame great because of the sensations it provides for the palates of men. The Eastern Shore lies like an arm thrust up by the ocean between the Atlantic and the Chesapeake Bay; around it break the surge and thunder of the sea and ocean's breezes sweep perpetually over it....