Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 7, 2025
But now it remains to speak of other blessings too mighty to be valued, not merely as transcending in rank and dignity all other constituents of happiness, but for a reason far sadder than that because, once lost, they were incapable of restoration, and because not to be dispensed with; blessings in which 'either we must live or have no life: lights to the darkness of our paths and to the infirmity of our steps which, once extinguished, never more on this side the gates of Paradise can any man hope to see re-illumined for himself.
This intelligence spread alarm and sorrow among the clergy of Europe, who endeavoured to rouse once more the energy and enthusiasm of the nations, in the cause of the Holy Land: but the popular mania had run its career; the spark of zeal had burned its appointed time, and was never again to be re-illumined.
A thunderstorm had broken upon us in the morning, itself an unusual meteorological phenomenon, and the downpour of black rain, shutting off the views and enclosing us in a torrential embrace of floods, had lasted an hour when it passed away, and the Sun re-illumined the wide glistening scene.
I am amused, I said, at your fear of the world, which makes you guard against the appearance of insisting upon useless studies; and I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which, when by other pursuits lost and dimmed, is by these purified and re-illumined; and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.
The damsel, after the lapse of some weeks, met her swain at a neighbouring fair, and the flame of love still smouldering in his heart was re-illumined by the sight of his charmer, who, on the contrary, had become quite disgusted with him for his too obvious preference of profit to true affection.
But now it remains to speak of other blessings too mighty to be valued, not merely as transcending in rank and dignity all other constituents of happiness, but for a reason far sadder than that because, once lost, they were incapable of restoration, and because not to be dispensed with; blessings in which 'either we must live or have no life: lights to the darkness of our paths and to the infirmity of our steps which, once extinguished, never more on this side the gates of Paradise can any man hope to see re-illumined for himself.
Then the captain spoke again, and his words re-illumined the parting light of hope which flashed up like an expiring flame. "Do you think he has struck out straight for the shore?" "He may have done so, sir," replied Mr Reardon, as we all stood in a knot together on the quarter-deck, "but he could never have reached it." "Not in this mill-race of a tide!" said Captain Thwaites. "Recall the boats."
At your request, and before your own sight, the visual ray which hath been quenched shall be re-illumined the mind whose efforts were restricted to the imperfect supply of individual wants shall be again extended, if such is the owner's will, to the charge of an ample Theme or division of the empire.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking