The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 3G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... earth like the hoofs of an ox , the young man sat unmoved . Then those who had followed at the islander's heels for the liquor he was spending first stared in wonderment at his failure , and next laughed in derision of his bragging ...
... earth like the hoofs of an ox , the young man sat unmoved . Then those who had followed at the islander's heels for the liquor he was spending first stared in wonderment at his failure , and next laughed in derision of his bragging ...
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... earth , as a clod rolls from the plowshare . All this time Jorgen's daughter had craned her neck to look over the heads of the people , and when the tussle was at an end , her face , which had been strained to the point of anguish , re ...
... earth , as a clod rolls from the plowshare . All this time Jorgen's daughter had craned her neck to look over the heads of the people , and when the tussle was at an end , her face , which had been strained to the point of anguish , re ...
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... Earth be- neath would hurt me ; as if the Heavens and the Earth were but boundless jaws of a devouring monster , wherein I , palpitating , waited to be devoured . " Full of such humor , and perhaps the miserablest man in the whole ...
... Earth be- neath would hurt me ; as if the Heavens and the Earth were but boundless jaws of a devouring monster , wherein I , palpitating , waited to be devoured . " Full of such humor , and perhaps the miserablest man in the whole ...
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... Earth . The first preliminary moral Act , Annihilation of Self ( Selbst- tödtung ) , had been happily accomplished ; and my mind's eyes were now unsealed , and its hands ungyved . " - Might we not also conjecture that the following ...
... Earth . The first preliminary moral Act , Annihilation of Self ( Selbst- tödtung ) , had been happily accomplished ; and my mind's eyes were now unsealed , and its hands ungyved . " - Might we not also conjecture that the following ...
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... Earth , with her poor joys , was now my needy Mother , not my cruel Stepdame ; Man , with his so mad Wants and so mean Endeavors , had become the dearer to me ; and even for his sufferings and his sins , I now first named him Brother ...
... Earth , with her poor joys , was now my needy Mother , not my cruel Stepdame ; Man , with his so mad Wants and so mean Endeavors , had become the dearer to me ; and even for his sufferings and his sins , I now first named him Brother ...
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