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... common mother , the great ocean . How quietly , how silently nature works in her great household . Unheard and unseen , these enormous masses of water rise up from the broad seas of the earth , and yet it requires not less than one ...
... common mother , the great ocean . How quietly , how silently nature works in her great household . Unheard and unseen , these enormous masses of water rise up from the broad seas of the earth , and yet it requires not less than one ...
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... common fish , when it pleased his Japanese majesty to order a fish din- ner at his house in the depth of winter , when all fish leave the coasts of his country . Now singly , now in shoals , fish are constantly seen moving through the ...
... common fish , when it pleased his Japanese majesty to order a fish din- ner at his house in the depth of winter , when all fish leave the coasts of his country . Now singly , now in shoals , fish are constantly seen moving through the ...
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... common sense , and sterling judg- ment , coupled with immaculate patriot- ism . There was nothing brilliant in Washington , unless , indeed , the Fabian genius of unyielding perseverance in a high career , be called brilliant . Napo ...
... common sense , and sterling judg- ment , coupled with immaculate patriot- ism . There was nothing brilliant in Washington , unless , indeed , the Fabian genius of unyielding perseverance in a high career , be called brilliant . Napo ...
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... common men . Dur- ing his closing illness he directs General Bertrand to advise ,. in his name , the members of his family to settle chiefly in Rome , where their children ought to be married to the princely families of the Colonnas ...
... common men . Dur- ing his closing illness he directs General Bertrand to advise ,. in his name , the members of his family to settle chiefly in Rome , where their children ought to be married to the princely families of the Colonnas ...
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... common influences ; but so soon as we apply the word great to individual characters - to the artist , the author , the captain , the statesman or the religionist , we always mean conception and production on a large scale and of a high ...
... common influences ; but so soon as we apply the word great to individual characters - to the artist , the author , the captain , the statesman or the religionist , we always mean conception and production on a large scale and of a high ...
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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.