Sparks from the Anvil - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... clods startle our poor weak natures as it may<--still, we may rest assured, that all that we may be proud of in our being, will never lose the sentiment of its existence; and, if we act well our parts in our present capacities and circumstances, we shall be transferred, not to a state of long, unconscious lethargy--of vague, indefinite suspense with respect to our future awards and occupations in eternity--but to an immediate and active participation in all the exalted and endless employments of which intellectual beings are susceptible. No, I cannot think so meanly of the future attainments of the human mind, as to suppose that, at some period in eternity, not far removed from the time of its dissolution from the terraneous composition of flesh and blood--it may not be elected by its Author to some office in the universe, now occupied by some one of the minor angels; and thence reaching higher and higher in its upward and endless gradations, at last put the diadem, of Gabriel on its brow, and wear his insignia before the eternal Throne. TEMPERANCE. TOUCH NOT! TASTE NOT! HANDLE NOT! SMELL NOT! ANr THING THAT CAN INTOXICATE. Among the thousands who have, during the last year, arisen from the slough of despond and shaken off the serpent spells of the sorcerer, many a brilliant intellect re gained its original lustre and rank among the stars which shine in our moral and intellectual firmament. We had one peculiar star in the Old Bay State, which fell like "the sun of the morning" from the heaven of temperance, and, I may add, drew down with it a third part of the constellation to which it belonged. Massachusetts felt his fall to her heart; for he was one of her untitled nobility. He bore a name prouder and dearer to New England, than any...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230323457
- ISBN 13 9781230323459
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages40
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