American Religion

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Roberts Brothers, 1871 - 326 頁
 

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第 77 頁 - how differently young and old are affected by the words of some classic author, such as Homer or Horace. Passages, which to a boy are but rhetorical commonplaces, neither better nor worse than a hundred others which any clever writer might supply, which he gets by heart and thinks very fine, and imitates, as he thinks, successfully, in his own flowing versification...
第 152 頁 - O, that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come ! But it sufficeth, that the day will end, And then the end is known.
第 308 頁 - He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity : he that killeth with the sword, must be killed with the sword.
第 50 頁 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
第 301 頁 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall- not perish from the earth.
第 39 頁 - For a tear is an intellectual thing, And a sigh is the sword of an Angel King, And the bitter groan of the martyr's woe Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow.
第 308 頁 - And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness...
第 103 頁 - Which of you convinceth me of sin ? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words : ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
第 128 頁 - My own East ! How nearer God we were ! He glows above With scarce an intervention, presses close And palpitatingly, his soul o'er ours : We feel him, nor by painful reason know...
第 290 頁 - tis clear if we refuse The means so limited, the tools so rude To execute our purpose, life will fleet, And we shall fade, and leave our task undone.

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