The Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, Opseg 4

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The University, 1914
 

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Stranica 162 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Stranica 105 - But now afflictions bow me down to earth: Nor care I that they rob me of my mirth ; But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me at my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.
Stranica 106 - But vainly thou warrest, For this is alone in Thy power to declare That in the dim forest Thou heard'st a low moaning, And found'st a bright lady, surpassingly fair; And didst bring her home with thee in love and in charity, To shield her and shelter her from the damp air.
Stranica 105 - Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been attempting to beat off pain by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell, employed in tracing out for others the road to that heaven, from which his crimes exclude him ! In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, and hopeless, and you will form as tolerable a notion of my state, as it is possible for a good man to have. I used to think the text in St. James that ' he who offended in one...
Stranica 148 - An Austrian army, awfully arrayed, Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade; Cossack commanders cannonading come, Dealing destruction's devastating doom. Every endeavour engineers essay For fame, for fortune — fighting, furious fray: Generals 'gainst generals grapple — gracious God!
Stranica 150 - Time rushes o'er us; thick as evening clouds, Ages roll back: — What calls them from their shrouds? What in full vision brings their good and great, The men whose virtues make the nation's fate, The far, forgotten stars of humankind ? The stage — the mighty telescope of mind...
Stranica 105 - Bristol, June 26th, 1814. Dear Sir, For I am unworthy to call any good man friend — much less you, whose hospitality and love I have abused ; accept, however, my intreaties for your forgiveness, and for your prayers. Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been attempting to beat off pain, by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell, employed in tracing out for others the road to that heaven, from which...
Stranica 328 - His way is in the sea, and His path in the great waters, and His footsteps are not known.
Stranica 191 - ... 20; and it would save the professional man from having to wait until 27 to start his professional career. The report insists that the present elementary course is too long; that the ground now covered in eight years can be covered just as efficiently in six, allowing secondary work to begin at the age of 12. To save on elementary schooling they urge: "Choose the most important subjects and the most important topics; make a distinction between first-rate facts and principles and tenth-rate.
Stranica 167 - Every action is right which, in the presence of a lower principle, follows a higher; every action is wrong which, in the presence of a higher principle, follows a lower.

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