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... believe it will be generally found that it amounts ra- ther to this - that he was not small , not mean . He was too great a man to be puny in any sphere ; but we do not know that he ever acknowledged free- dom of action as a substantive ...
... believe it will be generally found that it amounts ra- ther to this - that he was not small , not mean . He was too great a man to be puny in any sphere ; but we do not know that he ever acknowledged free- dom of action as a substantive ...
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... believe in political Mahometanism . Napoleon's hostility to " Gothic insti- tutions " extended to all institutions , if we understand by them , legal establish- ments , with an independent organism of life and progress within themselves ...
... believe in political Mahometanism . Napoleon's hostility to " Gothic insti- tutions " extended to all institutions , if we understand by them , legal establish- ments , with an independent organism of life and progress within themselves ...
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... believe that it is the destiny of this peculiar race to cover the earth , so we believe that the gospel and liberty are destined to spread over the globe , or , which amounts to the same , as Christianity and liberty are destined to be ...
... believe that it is the destiny of this peculiar race to cover the earth , so we believe that the gospel and liberty are destined to spread over the globe , or , which amounts to the same , as Christianity and liberty are destined to be ...
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... believe in the science which I profess . Not a word to him of these inquiries ; but answer me discreetly and secretly and I will help you , to a for- tune beyond your proudest hopes . " 66 Ha , ha , ha , " laughed Mr. Barnard- " the ...
... believe in the science which I profess . Not a word to him of these inquiries ; but answer me discreetly and secretly and I will help you , to a for- tune beyond your proudest hopes . " 66 Ha , ha , ha , " laughed Mr. Barnard- " the ...
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... believe that all such attempts will prove - a failure . The Saxon mind , from what- ever cause we may choose to assign , does not , cannot , and will not move in such a measure . The thing has been repeatedly tried , until it has become ...
... believe that all such attempts will prove - a failure . The Saxon mind , from what- ever cause we may choose to assign , does not , cannot , and will not move in such a measure . The thing has been repeatedly tried , until it has become ...
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Page 296 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 283 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 467 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath ; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 280 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 10 - His way is in the sea, and His path in the great waters, and His footsteps are not known.
Page 343 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 561 - I was anxiously looking around for the river, one of them called out, geo affili (see the water), and looking forwards, I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward.
Page 298 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 571 - Modest and shy as a nun is she ; One weak chirp is her only note. Braggart and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat: Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; Never was I afraid of man; Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can ! Chee, chee, chee.
Page 120 - THE splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.