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... balloon , offered him a colonel- cy , which he declined , and the cross of honour , which he accepted . At the bat- tle of O , a bullet discharged from a Bavarian rifle fractured his collar - bone , and for the moment cut his military ...
... balloon , offered him a colonel- cy , which he declined , and the cross of honour , which he accepted . At the bat- tle of O , a bullet discharged from a Bavarian rifle fractured his collar - bone , and for the moment cut his military ...
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... balloon has always ap- of reproaching that metaphorical being peared to possess such splendid capabil- for its extreme backwardness in one de- ities that it is no wonder its admirers partment of duty . He called upon it to never weary ...
... balloon has always ap- of reproaching that metaphorical being peared to possess such splendid capabil- for its extreme backwardness in one de- ities that it is no wonder its admirers partment of duty . He called upon it to never weary ...
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... balloon could be rendered of any service the balloon is destined for more pacific in a battle ? Not many years were suffered purposes . The range of modern guus , and to elapse before regular experiments were the difficulty of ...
... balloon could be rendered of any service the balloon is destined for more pacific in a battle ? Not many years were suffered purposes . The range of modern guus , and to elapse before regular experiments were the difficulty of ...
Page 389
... balloons , the Richard Wallace , is missing ment of the balloon for postal purposes . as much as if it had sailed off the planet During the recent siege of that city we into infinite space . So long as these ma- mean , of course , by ...
... balloons , the Richard Wallace , is missing ment of the balloon for postal purposes . as much as if it had sailed off the planet During the recent siege of that city we into infinite space . So long as these ma- mean , of course , by ...
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... balloon the balloon is seen in almost every phase then tethered at Chelsea . Her wish was of adventure - sweeping through the granted , and she enjoyed a ride in the clouds , plodding through the falling snow , atmosphere at the foot of ...
... balloon the balloon is seen in almost every phase then tethered at Chelsea . Her wish was of adventure - sweeping through the granted , and she enjoyed a ride in the clouds , plodding through the falling snow , atmosphere at the foot of ...
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Page 152 - LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man. Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.
Page 153 - The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed ; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. " In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart, — The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
Page 142 - ... feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us — an inexhaustible treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
Page 137 - Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven! — Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance!
Page 19 - Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent Would have been held in high esteem with Paul...
Page 152 - But, as it sometimes chanceth, from the might Of joy in minds that can no further go, As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low; To me that morning did it happen so; And fears and fancies thick upon me came; Dim sadness — and blind thoughts, I knew not, nor could name.
Page 459 - Faith, etc., having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Page 91 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Page 20 - ... and by and by gilds the fringes of a cloud, and peeps over the eastern hills, thrusting out his golden horns, like those which decked the brows of Moses, when he was forced to wear a veil, because himself had seen the face of God; and still while a man tells the story the sun gets up higher till he shows a fair face and a full light, and then he shines one whole day, under a cloud often, and sometimes weeping great and little showers, and sets quickly: so is a man's reason and his life.
Page 137 - Were called upon to exercise their skill, Not in Utopia, — subterranean fields, — Or some secreted island, Heaven knows where ! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, — the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all...