The Chautauquan, Volumes 45-46Chautauqua Press, 1906 |
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Page 57
... suggested by some peculiarity in the mountain shape , but it is a pity to give up the Celtic Blencathara , Peak of Demons , for Saddleback . The jubilant throngs who flock to Lakeland every sum- mer concern themselves little with its ...
... suggested by some peculiarity in the mountain shape , but it is a pity to give up the Celtic Blencathara , Peak of Demons , for Saddleback . The jubilant throngs who flock to Lakeland every sum- mer concern themselves little with its ...
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... suggested very different things to different people . To some it stood for a teacher of most dangerous views , views that were entirely inconsistent with religion ; and this opinion is found as a tradition even to this day . To others ...
... suggested very different things to different people . To some it stood for a teacher of most dangerous views , views that were entirely inconsistent with religion ; and this opinion is found as a tradition even to this day . To others ...
Page 68
... suggested their solution . He returned to England convinced that the plants and animals of today are the modified descendants of earlier forms , and that he had a clue to an explanation of the changes . It was characteristic of Darwin ...
... suggested their solution . He returned to England convinced that the plants and animals of today are the modified descendants of earlier forms , and that he had a clue to an explanation of the changes . It was characteristic of Darwin ...
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... suggested by Christmas Day : A world - vision from the angels ' point of view ; a self - surrender to all benevolent service- " peace , good will to men , " and the rapture of a reberent recognition of the Infinite and Eternal that ...
... suggested by Christmas Day : A world - vision from the angels ' point of view ; a self - surrender to all benevolent service- " peace , good will to men , " and the rapture of a reberent recognition of the Infinite and Eternal that ...
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... suggests - not from inability , but from a deliberate disregard of reason . The details in the fore- ground - the floating bodies in chains and the grotesque sea - monsters seem absurd . But this portion of the picture need not disturb ...
... suggests - not from inability , but from a deliberate disregard of reason . The details in the fore- ground - the floating bodies in chains and the grotesque sea - monsters seem absurd . But this portion of the picture need not disturb ...
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Page 342 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 188 - The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting. The dust and stones of the street were as precious as gold : the gates were at first the end of the world.
Page 107 - There will I ask of Christ the Lord Thus much for him and me: Only to live as once on earth With Love, only to be, As then awhile, for ever now Together, I and he." She gazed and listened and then said, Less sad of speech than mild: "All this is when he comes.
Page 334 - That did affright the air at Agincourt? O pardon ! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million, And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Page 72 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Page 164 - 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.
Page 240 - Mr Davies mentioned my name, and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated; and recollecting his prejudice against the Scotch, of which I had heard much, I said to Davies, 'Don't tell where I come from'. - 'from Scotland', cried Davies, roguishly. 'Mr Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come from Scotland but I cannot help it.
Page 107 - will seek the groves Where the lady Mary is, With her five handmaidens, whose names Are five sweet symphonies, Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret and Rosalys. "Circlewise sit they, with bound locks And foreheads garlanded; "° Into the fine cloth white like flame Weaving the golden thread, To fashion the birth-robes for them Who are just born, being dead.
Page 313 - I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag.
Page 31 - But since nae war's between the lands, And there is peace, and peace should be, I'll neither harm English lad or lass, And yet the Kinmont freed shall be...