The Home of the Seven Devils

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John Lane Company, 1914 - 404 pages
 

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Page 123 - Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Page 401 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Page 74 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Page 351 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, ^11 or all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Page 129 - THERE are two wings by which a man soars above the world, — sincerity and purity. The former regards the intention, the latter the affections; that aspires and aims at a likeness to God, this makes us really like Him.
Page 130 - And this perfection of freedom we should not fail to attain, did we in all our designs and undertakings propose no other ends than obedience to the will of God, and promoting the good of our neighbour. Were but our minds thus fixed and our intentions regulated, everything would strangely contribute to our edification.
Page 402 - If to your starboard RED appear, It is your duty to keep clear ; To act as judgment says is proper ; To Port — or Starboard — Back — or, Stop her ! But when upon your Port is seen A Steamer's Starboard Light of GREEN, There's not so much for you to do, For GREEN to Port keeps clear of you.
Page 131 - Were but our minds thus fixed and our intentions regulated, everything would strangely contribute to our edification. We should study the volume of Nature with profit, and every line in that large book would tend to our instruction. The very smallest, and in common esteem most despicable, creature would represent, as in a glass, the goodness of God to us. And the reason why these things are seen with so useless speculation is because our minds are not rightly disposed to draw those profitable and...
Page 3 - Amplius lava me ab iniquitate mea, et a peccato meo munda me. Quoniam iniquitatem meam ego cognosco, et peccatum meum contra me est semper.
Page 118 - Washington, therefore, it will afford me great pleasure, to hear from you as often as you can find time to write to me on politics, or on any subject you please.

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