Penn Monthly, Volumen9

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Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall
University Press Company, 1878
 

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Página 213 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Página 150 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Página 547 - who takes for his model such forms as nature produces, and confines himself to an exact imitation of them, will never attain to what is perfectly beautiful. For the works of nature are full of disproportion, and fall very short of the true standard of beauty. So that Phidias, when he formed his Jupiter, did not copy any object ever presented to his sight; but contemplated only that image which he had conceived in his mind from Homer's description.
Página 428 - The State Board of Health shall have the general supervision of the interests of the health and life of the citizens of the State.
Página 239 - Else, when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen...
Página 196 - Not on the vulgar mass called " work" must sentence pass, Things done, that took the eye and had the price; O'er which, from level stand, the low world laid its hand, , Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice...
Página 878 - Continent renders very unlikely; and because it was well worth while to incur a loss upon the first exportation, in order, by the glut, to stifle in the cradle those rising manufactures in the United States, which the war had forced into existence, contrary to the natural course of things...
Página 537 - Man's use and function (and let him who will not grant me this follow me no farther, for this I purpose always to assume) are, to be the witness of the glory of God, and to advance that glory by his reasonable obedience and resultant happiness.
Página 427 - And it shall be the duty of all health officers and boards of health in the State to communicate to said State board of health copies of all their reports and publications ; also such sanitary information as may be useful.
Página 421 - WHO cometh over the hills, Her garments with morning sweet, The dance of a thousand rills Making music before her feet ? Her presence freshens the air ; Sunshine steals light from her face; The leaden footstep of Care Leaps to the tune of her pace, Fairness of all that is fair, Grace at the heart of all grace, Sweetener of hut and of hall, Bringer of life out of naught, Freedom, oh, fairest of all The daughters of Time and Thought...

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