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... land had been discovered to the eastward , bearing the appearance of the island of Lancerotta ; when , however , the morning of the 30th dawned , the crew saw themselves on the shores of this bar- barous and inhospitable coast . The ...
... land had been discovered to the eastward , bearing the appearance of the island of Lancerotta ; when , however , the morning of the 30th dawned , the crew saw themselves on the shores of this bar- barous and inhospitable coast . The ...
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... land adjacent to some of the encampments , which had been sown with barley , had been already cut . From both sides of our road we started from time to time hares and partridges ; every thing became animated ; travellers crossed our ...
... land adjacent to some of the encampments , which had been sown with barley , had been already cut . From both sides of our road we started from time to time hares and partridges ; every thing became animated ; travellers crossed our ...
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... land to Mogador , each sailor mounted on a mule ; they were forwarded to Gibraltar ( we think ) by the Bull - Dog sloop of war . The price is therefore more than doubled since then , which has proceeded from the great interest excited ...
... land to Mogador , each sailor mounted on a mule ; they were forwarded to Gibraltar ( we think ) by the Bull - Dog sloop of war . The price is therefore more than doubled since then , which has proceeded from the great interest excited ...
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... land , Where all the angels stand , Even to the highest height in burning rows ascending . Some with their wings dispread , And bow'd the stately head , As on some mission of God's love departing , Like flames from midnight ...
... land , Where all the angels stand , Even to the highest height in burning rows ascending . Some with their wings dispread , And bow'd the stately head , As on some mission of God's love departing , Like flames from midnight ...
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... land ; possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping even the tempests them- selves ; unawed by any thing but man ; and from the ethereal heights to which he soars , looking abroad , at one glance , on an immeasurable expanse of ...
... land ; possessing powers of flight capable of outstripping even the tempests them- selves ; unawed by any thing but man ; and from the ethereal heights to which he soars , looking abroad , at one glance , on an immeasurable expanse of ...
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Page 172 - Cold on His cradle the dew-drops are shining ; Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall : Angels adore Him in slumber reclining, Maker, and Monarch, and Saviour of all.
Page 171 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning ! Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid ! Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid...
Page 166 - For thither the tribes go up, even the tribes of the LORD : to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the Name of the LORD.
Page 195 - And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence ; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them...
Page 379 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 45 - Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirlwind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods.
Page 96 - an admiral without conduct, an engineer without knowledge, an officer without resolution, and a man without veracity!
Page 215 - ONCE in the flight of ages past, There lived a man : — and who was he ? Mortal ! howe'er thy lot be cast, That man resembled thee.
Page 193 - Certainly the Americans owed and still owe as much acknowledgment to the financial operations of Robert Morris as to the negotiations of Benjamin Franklin or even the arms of George Washington.
Page 402 - I have seen him — nay, smile not — tenderly escorting a market-woman, whom he had encountered in a shower, exalting his umbrella over her poor basket of fruit, that it might receive no damage, with as much carefulness as if she had been a countess.