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For he may foretel it as a thing to arrive after a certain long time, longer then the time of mans life; or indefinitely, that it will come to passe one time or other: in which case this mark of a Prophet is unusefull; and therefore the miracles that oblige us to beleeve a Prophet, ought to be confirmed by an immediate, or a not long deferr'd event.
Sole among nationalities, these States have assumed the task to put in forms of lasting power and practicality, on areas of amplitude rivaling the operations of the physical kosmos, the moral political speculations of ages, long, long deferr'd, the democratic republican principle, and the theory of development and perfection by voluntary standards, and self-reliance.
Doubtless, now they have cares, duties, incubation responsibilities. The frolics are deferr'd till summer-close.
"The proof of the poet shall be sternly deferr'd till his country has absorbed him as affectionately as he has absorbed it." The proof of Whitman shall be deferred till he has borne fruit in actual, concrete life.
I beheld his body half-wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferr'd. Upon looking nearer I saw him pale and feverish: in thirty years the western breeze had not once fann'd his blood; he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice.
Will the day ever come no matter how long deferr'd when those models and lay-figures from the British islands and even the precious traditions of the classics will be reminiscences, studies only?
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