Six Selections from Irving's Sketch-book: With Notes, Questions, Etc. for Home and School UseGinn & Company, 1891 - 119 Seiten |
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... nature , resisting the rigorous acts of the English Parliament , and laying the foundations and rearing the walls of the new temple of liberty , to devote themselves in any special degree to literary culture . Born with the new Republic ...
... nature , resisting the rigorous acts of the English Parliament , and laying the foundations and rearing the walls of the new temple of liberty , to devote themselves in any special degree to literary culture . Born with the new Republic ...
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... nature seemed to have thrown an insur- mountable barrier . We one day descried some shapeless object drifting at a dis- tance . At sea , everything that breaks the monotony of the 75 surrounding expanse attracts attention . It proved to ...
... nature seemed to have thrown an insur- mountable barrier . We one day descried some shapeless object drifting at a dis- tance . At sea , everything that breaks the monotony of the 75 surrounding expanse attracts attention . It proved to ...
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... nature of the place presses down upon the soul , and hushes the beholder into noiseless rever- ence . We feel that we are surrounded by the congregated bones of the great men of past times , who have filled history 75 with their deeds ...
... nature of the place presses down upon the soul , and hushes the beholder into noiseless rever- ence . We feel that we are surrounded by the congregated bones of the great men of past times , who have filled history 75 with their deeds ...
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... nature is peculiarly quiet , and was startled by the roar of my own gun , as it broke the Sabbath stillness around and was pro- 25 longed and reverberated by the angry echoes . If ever I should wish for a retreat , whither I might steal ...
... nature is peculiarly quiet , and was startled by the roar of my own gun , as it broke the Sabbath stillness around and was pro- 25 longed and reverberated by the angry echoes . If ever I should wish for a retreat , whither I might steal ...
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... nature there abode , in a remote period of American history , that is to say , some thirty years since , a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane ; who sojourned , or , as he expressed it , " tarried , " in Sleepy Hollow , for the ...
... nature there abode , in a remote period of American history , that is to say , some thirty years since , a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane ; who sojourned , or , as he expressed it , " tarried , " in Sleepy Hollow , for the ...
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