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Abridged accurate apply argument assent belief broaden your mind BUILD MENTAL POWER Capital punishment carefully clear thinking clearly common sense concentration conclusion conscience consider copula Cultivate daily Dancing Painting definite Descartes desire develop Diagram dictionary essential evidence examine example exer expression facts faculties faith fallacy feelings fixt FRIDAY frustrums give habit human ideas imagination important infinitely divisible intellectual interest intuition intuitive knowledge judgment key and compare KEY TO EXERCISES knowledge language LESSON KEY logical matter means memory ment mind moral nature ness note-book object observation one's opinions particular possess possible practical precisely prejudice principle proof proposition purpose qualities question reason rule SATURDAY Selective thinking sentence SOUND OPINIONS spiritual statement style syllogism things thought THURSDAY tical tion true truth TUESDAY understanding velop vital Webster's Dictionary WEDNESDAY words Write wrong
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Page 153 - Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 152 - Who filled thy countenance with rosy light ? Who made thee parent of perpetual streams...
Page 151 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again, 10 It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity!
Page 117 - University training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end ; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life.
Page 153 - John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying ; Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...
Page 152 - O struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars, Or when they climb the sky, or when they sink...
Page 103 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
Page 153 - And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
Page 160 - Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across the Niagara River on a rope, would you shake the cable, or keep shouting out to him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter — Blondin, stoop a little more — go a little faster — lean a little more to the north — lean a little more to the south?
Page 154 - And the city lieth four-square and the length is as large as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs ; the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.