The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers, Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read ...Bennett and Walton, 1812 - 392 pages |
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... dangerous again ! " Ah , so it was Zeek ! Yeah , he's dangerous . Well , I am , too . We have this danger thing . It just takes over , and we start doing incredible action stuff . It's the way we are . " He almost killed Noodle ! " she ...
... dangerous again ! " Ah , so it was Zeek ! Yeah , he's dangerous . Well , I am , too . We have this danger thing . It just takes over , and we start doing incredible action stuff . It's the way we are . " He almost killed Noodle ! " she ...
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... danger” (Pred 2007, 364). In this moment of danger, the European public tends to acquiesce to the use of violence by accepting the racialized argument that the threat to the collective good is external and identified among a selected ...
... danger” (Pred 2007, 364). In this moment of danger, the European public tends to acquiesce to the use of violence by accepting the racialized argument that the threat to the collective good is external and identified among a selected ...
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... dangers. The fear of death pulls the self together'.53 Fear from danger perceived as originating from the outside of a political community helps its members to form a coherent group governed by an authority that defines the norms and ...
... dangers. The fear of death pulls the self together'.53 Fear from danger perceived as originating from the outside of a political community helps its members to form a coherent group governed by an authority that defines the norms and ...
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... danger of crime intersect with the narratives of the danger ofcontemporary life. So the kinds of questions criminologists ask are: Why do women say they feel unease, and admit more to fearing the potential danger of encountering ...
... danger of crime intersect with the narratives of the danger ofcontemporary life. So the kinds of questions criminologists ask are: Why do women say they feel unease, and admit more to fearing the potential danger of encountering ...
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... dangerous goods included in the list , chapter 2 , have for packing purposes been apportioned among three categories according to the degree of danger they pres- ent : great danger ( Group I ) , medium danger ( Group II ) and minor danger ...
... dangerous goods included in the list , chapter 2 , have for packing purposes been apportioned among three categories according to the degree of danger they pres- ent : great danger ( Group I ) , medium danger ( Group II ) and minor danger ...
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Page 277 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 263 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
Page 195 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Page 228 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 294 - What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet, From birds among the bowers.
Page 228 - Consort, the hour Of night, and all things now retired to rest, Mind us of like repose; since God hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to men Successive; and the timely dew of sleep, Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines Our eyelids...
Page 284 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page xvii - THE beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon : lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 240 - Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, And what your bounded view, which only saw A little part, deem'd evil, is no more : The storms of wint'ry time will quickly pass, And one unbounded spring encircle all — THOMSON, SECTION VIII.
Page 223 - Had cheered the village with his song, Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp...