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  2. PICKINGS FROM OUR PORTFOLIO. TITLES.

    If mortals on earth—if children of dust and death, if poor small creatures of the day, choose to address one another as My Lord, Your Grace, Your Holiness, Reverend, Very Reverend, Right Reverend, ...

    Article : 121 words
  3. OVER-EDUCATING.

    At no period of youth should education be pushed beyond its proper limits, or the mind be worked above its powers. The welfare of the pupil demands the observance of this rule on the part of the master ...

    Article : 143 words
  4. TASTE.

    Jemmy Boswell called upon me at my chambers in Lincoln's Inn, desiring to know what would be my definition of taste. I told him I must decline informing him how I should define it; because I ...

    Article : 161 words
  5. THE BENEFACTORS OF MANKIND.

    It has not been permitted to individuals to effect with their single arm those great revolutions which urge forward the destinies of the moral and intellectual, and the political world. The benefactors of ...

    Article : 236 words
  6. AN EVENING SONG.

    Good night, love! May Heaven's brightest stars watch over thee! Good angels spread their wings, and cover thee, And through the night, ...

    Article : 111 words
  7. CIVILIZED MEN AND SAVAGES.

    A good deal of ingenuity has been wasted in discussing whether man is better in a civilized or a savage state. More than one clever reasoner has employed the logic with which civilization supplied ...

    Article : 220 words
  8. JUBILEE MISSIONARY HYMN.

    Arise and shine, your light is come, Fair Islands of the West Awake and sing, once deaf and dumb, Now Islands of the blest. ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. CONSCIENCE.

    A good conscience is better than two witnesses—it will consume your grief as the sun dissolves ice. It is a spring when you are thirsty, a staff when you are weary—a screen when the sun burns you—a ...

    Article : 41 words
  10. PERSONALITY.

    Even ordinary life utters voices which add their witness to this truth, if we will listen for them. How do all deep-thinking people in the inmost currents of their spirits live apart from others; and, ...

    Article : 421 words
  11. THE PASSIONS.

    That is our duty to cultivate and govern our passions, requires no proof, but we have no right even to endeavour to eradicate them. The endeavour is useless, because we cannot. A passion cannot be ...

    Article : 319 words
  12. CHILDREN.

    How little do they who have grown up to man's estate trouble themselves about the feelings of children! It would really seem as if they fancied that children were destitute of all those fine and delicate ...

    Article : 203 words
  13. CIGAR SMOKING.

    What importance it does a young man, to be sure! What a swell he looks with his cigar in his mouth! What a admirable substitute for wit it is, just to take out the cigar with the finger and thumb, ...

    Article : 310 words
  14. Too Late.

    "The children of the earth," says Miss Bremer, in one of her admirable novels, "struggle against the sharp sword of suffering for many, many years; they live—they suffer—they struggle. The sword ...

    Article : 167 words
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