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... present themselves for centuries in different phases , accord- ing to the different and characteristic elements which may be at work in the wrestling progress of the race to which they have belonged ? Public men are open to the gaze of ...
... present themselves for centuries in different phases , accord- ing to the different and characteristic elements which may be at work in the wrestling progress of the race to which they have belonged ? Public men are open to the gaze of ...
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... present him in this light . They felt instinctively that this was the only way of reconciling his acts with the great aim of our times . We are well aware that there are two other classes of Napoleonists . There are those who boldly ...
... present him in this light . They felt instinctively that this was the only way of reconciling his acts with the great aim of our times . We are well aware that there are two other classes of Napoleonists . There are those who boldly ...
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... present themselves as France to his enormous mind ? Even Louis Napoleon has said on his throne that his uncle , it ... presents itself to an ingenuous mind . If Napoleon really was a dictator , forced by France 1855. ] 15 Was Napoleon a ...
... present themselves as France to his enormous mind ? Even Louis Napoleon has said on his throne that his uncle , it ... presents itself to an ingenuous mind . If Napoleon really was a dictator , forced by France 1855. ] 15 Was Napoleon a ...
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... present them- selves in this correspondence , in a ludicrous light . Joseph constantly replied to Napoleon's demands of higher taxes and heavy contributions , that , so long as Sicily was not conquered , and peace established , all ...
... present them- selves in this correspondence , in a ludicrous light . Joseph constantly replied to Napoleon's demands of higher taxes and heavy contributions , that , so long as Sicily was not conquered , and peace established , all ...
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... present in marketable form the honey which it contains ; to present to the imagination such pictures as should tend to cultivate and elevate the taste , and enkindle in the heart a love for the good , the beautiful , and the true ; to ...
... present in marketable form the honey which it contains ; to present to the imagination such pictures as should tend to cultivate and elevate the taste , and enkindle in the heart a love for the good , the beautiful , and the true ; to ...
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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.