Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 48John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1859 |
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... head , be- cause , since they were young , it might injure their memory . In those days the rod was the essential instrument of discipline . There was no sparing it and spoiling the child . There was an annual fête observed even some ...
... head , be- cause , since they were young , it might injure their memory . In those days the rod was the essential instrument of discipline . There was no sparing it and spoiling the child . There was an annual fête observed even some ...
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... head of Baffin's Bay , saw two boats sailing at some distance towards her . She sent a boat to meet them . " What's the name of your ship ? " cried a voice from one of the stray boats . " The Isabella , of Hull , once commanded by ...
... head of Baffin's Bay , saw two boats sailing at some distance towards her . She sent a boat to meet them . " What's the name of your ship ? " cried a voice from one of the stray boats . " The Isabella , of Hull , once commanded by ...
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... head beholds his glorious disc for the last time trail along the ice to the south , and then sink - a long farewell . " The night cometh wherein no man can work ; " " tiefe schan- dervolle Nacht , " as Goethe well says , " deep dreadful ...
... head beholds his glorious disc for the last time trail along the ice to the south , and then sink - a long farewell . " The night cometh wherein no man can work ; " " tiefe schan- dervolle Nacht , " as Goethe well says , " deep dreadful ...
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... head of the family and his wife ; the younger members of the household sleep on narrow wooden round the brick oven , which serves for benches running along the walls , and baking bread , cooking the meals , and warming and ventilating ...
... head of the family and his wife ; the younger members of the household sleep on narrow wooden round the brick oven , which serves for benches running along the walls , and baking bread , cooking the meals , and warming and ventilating ...
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... head struck off with a dull sounding blow into the basket ; the unbinding of the headless trunk while the arteries were yet spouting ; the tossing of head and trunk together into the shell of rough boards or of rude wicker - work ; the ...
... head struck off with a dull sounding blow into the basket ; the unbinding of the headless trunk while the arteries were yet spouting ; the tossing of head and trunk together into the shell of rough boards or of rude wicker - work ; the ...
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Page 477 - By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child...
Page 254 - To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her...
Page 388 - The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Page 23 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold; And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald...
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Page 169 - For the due discharge of parental functions, the proper guidance is to be found only in — Science. For that interpretation of national life, past and present, without which the citizen cannot rightly regulate his conduct, the indispensable key is — Science. Alike for the most perfect production and highest enjoyment of art in all its forms, the needful preparation is still — Science. And for purposes of discipline — intellectual, moral, religious — the most efficient study is, once more...
Page 484 - From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas — Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides : Fair these broad meads, &c.