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objects more peculiarly claiming their attention and exertion . Human life is short , and the human mind is limited . It is necessary that we should act with others , in order to enable them to do that which , even if it could be accomplished hy the lahours of an individual during along life , can be better done at once by joint exertion . In order to do with our might that which our hand findeth to do , before the night of death closes our service—and to
enable others to do the same—there must often be mutual acquiescence in the convictions of those who have entered into the subject , and perceive the whole bearings of it , and are prepared to give their efforts to carry the purposes of benevolence into execution . And then , by the arms of others , we may reach to do good where our own cannot . Through them , our little pecuniary sacrifices will tell to the best account ; with their activity and intelligence , we may surmount obstacles which have baffled us ; and we
may possess and may communicate the consolation , ( when it seems to the wearied head or the depressed heart as though we could do nothing , ) that the work will go on , however humble and limited our own share in it , so as to promote its great purposes . And , in like manner , where our co-operation is cheerfully given to others , we may expect , or if we do not expect , we shall find co-operation from others . In this present state of existence , there is vastly more of retribution than can be discerned by the inexperienced .
In order to do as much good as we can , we must place confidence in others ; and , where their motives are obviously right , and their judgment on the whole has proved to be sound , when they have plans of usefulness which , if successful , must be beneficial , and which cannot be successful without aid from others , we should not be too nice in scanning all the difficulties , presenting all the obstacles , and reckoning up all the failures ; but venture a little . Our means are limited , and our ventures , therefore , should be well directed ; but if we are too fastidious , or too fearful of success , we shall create difficulties and prevent it . ( To be continued . )
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I saw an Eagle die—A little star-flash trembled in his eye , And , as if some mysterious hidden power Had held it open to that mournful hour , And then had dropped the slowly-closing curtain , It fell—and darkness wrapped it instantly : His giant claws were stretched as if in sleep
And crampish agony—intense—uncertain—And then—as still as any frozen heap : The wings which often on the mountain summit Flapped—battling with the clouds and winds of heaven Had fallen to earth , as falls the senseless plummet ; And the proud plumage which with storms had striven Lay in vile clay polluted—ruffled—rifled . One gasp—another—and another ? No ! * Tis over—death and senselessness have stifled
All sound—all sense—all motion—and the king Of all aerial creatures is a thing For worms to revel in .
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260 The Eagle ' s Death .
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THE EAGLE'S DEATH .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1829, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2571/page/36/
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