Mill adhered to his early creed his son would probably have become a fit subject for one of those edifying tracts which deal with infantile conversions.From the earliest dawn of intellect until the age of fourteen he was the subject of one of the most singular educational experiments on record...
Mill himself says that he was brought up without any religious instruction;and though Professor Bain tells us that the boy went to church in his infancy,it must have been at so early a period as to leave no mark upon his memory.(8)Up to the age of fourteen,therefore,Mill,while kept ...
Poetry Upon The Circumcision is a sonnet, which is a fourteen-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and meter. The poem follows the traditional structure of a Petrarchan sonnet, with an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines). The rhyme scheme of the octave is ABBAABBA, while the...
The width of the gateway was fourteen cubits and its sidewalls were three cubits on either side.Ezekiel 41:1Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.Ezekiel 42:15Now when the man had finished measuring the interior ...
Sonnet 21, also known as 'Cypress Grove,' is a Petrarchan sonnet consisting of fourteen lines, divided into two sections: the octave (eight lines) and the sestet (six lines). The poem follows the traditional rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA CDECDE, with a volta or turn of thought between the tw...
Being a verse novel, the form of the stanza-paragraphs is pivotal to the way the novel is read. I have utilised what my partner Tracy Ryan has referred to as my ‘spindle sonnets’ — measured more by syllables per line than words, and in fourteen-line stanza/paragraphs. And I hope th...
He died on the upswing with fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys. He had seven sons and three beautiful daughters, and every one of them was rich. Job lived to be 140 years old and saw his children’s children to the fourth ...
(notes,John 1:39;John 4:6, 52;John 19:14). The "twelve hours" shows, at all events, that the Jews at this time generally reckoned from sunrise to sunset. It must be remembered that the day differed considerably in length at different parts of the year, from fourteen hours to nine...
In stanza fourteen of ‘Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity,’ John Milton presents a compelling literary analysis that delves into the transformative power of Christ’s birth on the natural world, represented by the entity of Nature. The stanza portrays Nature as a sentient being, ...
William was a boy of a stiff, moody, and violent temper; and as his mother died when he was a very little boy, and his father when he was fourteen, he grew up with very little care from his parents and guardians. He was sent to school at Hawkshead, in the Vale of Esthwaite, in...