The Living Age, Volume 109E. Littell & Company, 1871 |
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... true in- boy , read very much more than his friends stinct of the race has given the proudest supposed , we find that even the perusal of all titles for a patriotic man . Others of Rousseau's works , so far from corrupt- might be called ...
... true in- boy , read very much more than his friends stinct of the race has given the proudest supposed , we find that even the perusal of all titles for a patriotic man . Others of Rousseau's works , so far from corrupt- might be called ...
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... true soldiers ' honour " A brave soldier and warrior will fight to the death for his rightful king and master , and for the safety and honour of his country . A brave soldier will love his fatherland and fellow- countrymen above all ...
... true soldiers ' honour " A brave soldier and warrior will fight to the death for his rightful king and master , and for the safety and honour of his country . A brave soldier will love his fatherland and fellow- countrymen above all ...
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... true natures . only to the innocent- quite distinct from the tact of experience . " If , therefore , la- dies without experience attempt to judge , to draw conclusions from premises , and give a reason for their sentiments , there is ...
... true natures . only to the innocent- quite distinct from the tact of experience . " If , therefore , la- dies without experience attempt to judge , to draw conclusions from premises , and give a reason for their sentiments , there is ...
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... true ? It looked near yester- Why , just because of the blueness , " I day and now it looks far away . Which is answered . which ? " ― " Yes the blueness , no doubt . That was all . But there it was , you know . " Clara came out smiling ...
... true ? It looked near yester- Why , just because of the blueness , " I day and now it looks far away . Which is answered . which ? " ― " Yes the blueness , no doubt . That was all . But there it was , you know . " Clara came out smiling ...
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... true . There is a curse upon the earth , though not one which , by altering the laws of nature , has made natural facts untrustworthy . There is a curse on the earth ; such a curse as is expressed , I believe , in the old Hebrew text ...
... true . There is a curse upon the earth , though not one which , by altering the laws of nature , has made natural facts untrustworthy . There is a curse on the earth ; such a curse as is expressed , I believe , in the old Hebrew text ...
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Page 210 - There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Page 369 - A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora.
Page 451 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Page 64 - In memory of the man but for whom had gone to wrack All that France saved from the fight whence England bore the bell. Go to Paris; rank on rank Search the heroes flung pell-mell On the Louvre, face and flank! You shall look long enough ere you come to Herve Riel.
Page 201 - he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 177 - And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Page 63 - Only let me lead the line, Have the biggest ship to steer, Get this Formidable clear, Make the others follow mine, And I lead them, most and least, by a passage I know well...
Page 218 - Before his work be done; but, being done, Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But...
Page 326 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: ;"Tis clear...
Page 27 - I'll read, his for his love." XXXIII Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace.