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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 268 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=15mm, Gew.=395gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of … Mehr…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 268 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=15mm, Gew.=395gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Let us drink, for my song, growing graver and graver, To subjects too solemn insensibly tends; Let us drink, pledge me high, love and virtue shall flavour The glass which I fill to?wife, children, and friends. Hon. W. R. Spencer, 1770-1834. HAIL, HOLY LOVE! Hail, holy love! thou word that sums all bliss, Gives and receives all bliss, fullest when most Thou givest! Spring-head of all felicity, Deepest when most is drawn ! emblem of God ! O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink! Essence that binds the uncreated Three, Chain that unites creation to its Lord, Centre to which all being gravitates, Eternal, ever-growing, happy love ! Enduring all, hoping, forgiving all; Instead of law, fulfilling every law; Entirely blest, because thou seek'st no more, Hopest not, nor fear'st; but on the present liv'st, And hold'st Perfection smiling in thy arms. Mysterious, infinite, exhaustless love! On earth mysterious, and mysterious still In heaven; sweet chord, that harmonises all B The harps of Paradise ! the spring, the well, That fills the bowl and banquet of the sky. Robert Pollok, 1799-1827. ?Course of Time. KINDNESS TO THE LOWER ANIMALS. I Would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path: But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight, And charged perhaps with venom, that intrudes, A visitor unwelcome, into scenes Sacred to neatness and repose?the alcove, The chamber, or refectory?may die; A necessary act incurs no blame. Not so when, held within their proper bounds, And guiltles...<