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... Nature and fresh air ? Or is it , we incline to ask , so very great an exploit to wander out into the pleasant field of Greek or Latin mythology , and reproduce , with more or less of modern adaptation , - the shadows Faded and pale ...
... Nature and fresh air ? Or is it , we incline to ask , so very great an exploit to wander out into the pleasant field of Greek or Latin mythology , and reproduce , with more or less of modern adaptation , - the shadows Faded and pale ...
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... nature ; a proceeding which perhaps is hardly more sensible in the grown man than it would be in the infant to refuse to correct the sensations of sight by those of the touch . Upon the whole , we are disposed to fol- low out , if we ...
... nature ; a proceeding which perhaps is hardly more sensible in the grown man than it would be in the infant to refuse to correct the sensations of sight by those of the touch . Upon the whole , we are disposed to fol- low out , if we ...
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... Nature's eye , Ask how she viewed thy self - control , Thy struggling tasked morality — Nature whose free , light , cheerful air , Oft made thee , in thy gloom , despair . And she , whose censure thou dost dread , Whose eye thou wert ...
... Nature's eye , Ask how she viewed thy self - control , Thy struggling tasked morality — Nature whose free , light , cheerful air , Oft made thee , in thy gloom , despair . And she , whose censure thou dost dread , Whose eye thou wert ...
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... Nature's works Silence and rest are spread ; yet still the tramp Of busy feet , the roll of wheels , the hum Of passing tongues - one endless din confused Of sounds that have no meaning for the heart , Marring the beauty of the tranquil ...
... Nature's works Silence and rest are spread ; yet still the tramp Of busy feet , the roll of wheels , the hum Of passing tongues - one endless din confused Of sounds that have no meaning for the heart , Marring the beauty of the tranquil ...
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... nature of political association represents nothing Very little instruction is needed to give men a know- ledge of their own interests . Whether this union of opinion is wise or foolish , based on knowledge or ignorance , truth or ...
... nature of political association represents nothing Very little instruction is needed to give men a know- ledge of their own interests . Whether this union of opinion is wise or foolish , based on knowledge or ignorance , truth or ...
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Seite 411 - To you, in David's town, this day Is born of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; And this shall be the sign.
Seite 280 - ... riches which your wounds have preserved ? Is this the case ? or is it rather a country that tramples upon your rights, disdains your cries, and insults your distresses ? Have you not more than once suggested your wishes, and made known your wants, to congress — wants and wishes which gratitude and policy should have anticipated rather than evaded ? And have you not lately, in the meek language of entreating...
Seite 338 - I entreat you to consider, that when you choose magistrates, you take them from among yourselves, men subject to like passions as you are. Therefore when you see infirmities in us, you should reflect upon your own, and that would make you bear the more with us, and not be severe censurers of the failings of your magistrates, when you have continual experience of the like infirmities in yourselves and others.
Seite 533 - Principles of Geology; or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants considered as illustrative of Geology. Ninth Edition. Woodcuts. 8vo. 18s. - Manual of Elementary Geology ; or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants illustrated by its Geological Monuments.
Seite 21 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.
Seite 368 - No man's life shall be taken away; no man's honor or good name shall be stained ; no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor any...
Seite 420 - Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.
Seite 23 - The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And in the fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny front with shells — Retires a space to see how fair she looks, Then proud, runs up to kiss her.
Seite 280 - Tell them that though you were the first, and would wish to be the last, to encounter danger, though despair itself can never drive you into dishonor, it may drive you from the field; that the wound, often irritated and never healed, may at length become incurable; and that the slightest mark of indignity from Congress...
Seite 194 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.