The Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-bags, and Other LecturesWilliam Henry Milburn was a blind Methodist clergyman. A friend of notables including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, he was Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives in 1845 and Chaplain of the Senate fifty years later (1893 until his death in 1903). He preached and lectured throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland. |
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... nature is ever dropping from her light - tipped fingers - the crimson , the purple , and the gold of the evening sky - the pale light of stars studding the deep azure — the violet , the purple , and the emerald of garden , and field ...
... nature is ever dropping from her light - tipped fingers - the crimson , the purple , and the gold of the evening sky - the pale light of stars studding the deep azure — the violet , the purple , and the emerald of garden , and field ...
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... natural powers of oratory . In the Methodist Church , as is well known , sermons are preached , not read ; and it is no part of the aim of a Methodist sermon , in the proper sense of the word , to give simply intellectual pleasure . The ...
... natural powers of oratory . In the Methodist Church , as is well known , sermons are preached , not read ; and it is no part of the aim of a Methodist sermon , in the proper sense of the word , to give simply intellectual pleasure . The ...
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... nature , from the records of history , from the walks of trade , from the every - day current of human life and affairs . In this sense Mr. Milburn is a thoroughly effective preacher ; always earnest , always thoughtful , but never ...
... nature , from the records of history , from the walks of trade , from the every - day current of human life and affairs . In this sense Mr. Milburn is a thoroughly effective preacher ; always earnest , always thoughtful , but never ...
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... nature . Ofttimes has it hap- pened that the sublimest results have been achieved by the simplest instrumentalities . With the weak things of this world and the things that are not , hath God brought to naught the things that are , and ...
... nature . Ofttimes has it hap- pened that the sublimest results have been achieved by the simplest instrumentalities . With the weak things of this world and the things that are not , hath God brought to naught the things that are , and ...
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... Nature . We We call him a backwoods hunter ; is he not a kind of poet too , whose song reaches none but his own heart ? That incense- DANIEL BOONE . 31 breathing atmosphere fills him with unspoken 30 THE RIFLE , AXE , AND SADDLE - BAGS ...
... Nature . We We call him a backwoods hunter ; is he not a kind of poet too , whose song reaches none but his own heart ? That incense- DANIEL BOONE . 31 breathing atmosphere fills him with unspoken 30 THE RIFLE , AXE , AND SADDLE - BAGS ...
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Page 88 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
Page 115 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Page 121 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 144 - Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement. From garret to basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran.
Page 111 - Thus, from the laureat fraternity of poets, riper years and the ceaseless round of study and reading led me to the shady spaces of philosophy ; but chiefly to the divine volumes of Plato, and his equal Xenophon : where, if I should tell ye what I learnt of chastity and love, I mean that which is truly so...
Page 111 - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Page 116 - We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books...
Page 145 - Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly. Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity.
Page xix - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Page 71 - God will be a husband to the widow, and a father to the fatherless.