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" I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of... "
The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author - Page 143
by John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806
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The Works of William E. Channing, Volume 1

William Ellery Channing - Slavery - 1848 - 430 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies But were it the meanest underservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad for...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive [afterw.] The ..., Volumes 5-6

1856 - 666 pages
...on the subject in the following noble words. He regrets his being called "to interrupt the pursuits of his hopes, and to leave a calm and pleasing solitariness,...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." And he adds : " For surely to every good and peaceable man, it must, in nature, needs be a hateful...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in tragedies. The stern plotting character of P to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to...
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(XXX, 387 p.)

William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies But were it the meanest underservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad for...
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Proverbs for the People: Or, Illustrations of Practical Godliness Drawn from ...

Elias Lyman Magoon - Conduct of life - 1849 - 300 pages
...with cheerful and confident 'thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. * * * But were it the meanest underservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 18

American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put rom beholding th to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities, sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain...
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American Unitarian Biography: Memoirs of Individuals who Have Been ..., Volume 1

William Ware - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1850 - 424 pages
...escape from this rigid system of Divinity and return to the place of his education, and again " behold the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." It should be remembered that from the very foundation of Harvard University there had always prevailed...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes ; from...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 16; Volume 51

Theology - 1851 - 504 pages
...he enjoy the sweet delights of " idle time not idly spent," while he shall contemplate "the pleasant countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." Professor Channing's place has been supplied by the nomination of Mr. Francis James Child, now in Europe,...
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John Milton: the Patriot and Poet

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies,' &c. He still, however, obstinately persisted in what he thought his duty. But surely these speculations...
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