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... side , " says our narrator , " with what an agreeable and surprising view were we struck ! The country had ... sides of our road we started from time to time hares and partridges ; every thing became animated ; travellers crossed our ...
... side , " says our narrator , " with what an agreeable and surprising view were we struck ! The country had ... sides of our road we started from time to time hares and partridges ; every thing became animated ; travellers crossed our ...
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... side . Bubbling brooks watered these gardens in all directions ; dis- tributed artfully into innumerable canals , they meandered in ser- pentine flowings throughout these cultivated grounds . The care with which these springs were ...
... side . Bubbling brooks watered these gardens in all directions ; dis- tributed artfully into innumerable canals , they meandered in ser- pentine flowings throughout these cultivated grounds . The care with which these springs were ...
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... side of it when walking . At first one tunic only was worn ; but the example of the men introduced the fashion of wearing three ; the under one as a chemise , the next as a short frock , and the upper in the manner already described ...
... side of it when walking . At first one tunic only was worn ; but the example of the men introduced the fashion of wearing three ; the under one as a chemise , the next as a short frock , and the upper in the manner already described ...
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... side , And lull themselves along their level course To slumber with their own soft - sliding sounds ; And all for foul idolatry , or worse , To make itself an home and sanctuary ? Oh , second Eden , like the first , defiled With sin ...
... side , And lull themselves along their level course To slumber with their own soft - sliding sounds ; And all for foul idolatry , or worse , To make itself an home and sanctuary ? Oh , second Eden , like the first , defiled With sin ...
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... side as respects the Gospel even as a system ; though incomparably happier are those who , allured by the exquisite proportions of the exterior of the temple , are persuaded to enter its hallowed walls , and to fix their abode within ...
... side as respects the Gospel even as a system ; though incomparably happier are those who , allured by the exquisite proportions of the exterior of the temple , are persuaded to enter its hallowed walls , and to fix their abode within ...
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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.