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... less , and looked not badly for that stage of youth , though of course she might have been handsomer at twenty , as is often the case with women . She wore a not unbecoming cap ; frequent headaches had thinned her locks some- what of ...
... less , and looked not badly for that stage of youth , though of course she might have been handsomer at twenty , as is often the case with women . She wore a not unbecoming cap ; frequent headaches had thinned her locks some- what of ...
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... less reverence and more love of novelty than its forefathers . It wants change , and it loves young blood . Polyandry is getting to be the normal condition of the Church ; and about the time a man is becoming a little over - ripe for ...
... less reverence and more love of novelty than its forefathers . It wants change , and it loves young blood . Polyandry is getting to be the normal condition of the Church ; and about the time a man is becoming a little over - ripe for ...
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... less than eight distinct personalities are said to have coexisted in a single female mentioned by an an- cient physician of unimpeachable au- thority . In this light we may perhaps see the meaning of a sentence , from a work which will ...
... less than eight distinct personalities are said to have coexisted in a single female mentioned by an an- cient physician of unimpeachable au- thority . In this light we may perhaps see the meaning of a sentence , from a work which will ...
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... less eloquent ; and though an enlightened moral sentiment is doubt- less the result of this change of diet , yet to science and art it is almost a total loss . Take away the Lowell and the Cooper Institutes , and all our pro- gress in ...
... less eloquent ; and though an enlightened moral sentiment is doubt- less the result of this change of diet , yet to science and art it is almost a total loss . Take away the Lowell and the Cooper Institutes , and all our pro- gress in ...
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... less inviting parts of the landscape veiled in mist unexplored . Indeed , the great aim of his preaching is to show the insignifi- cance of opinion compared with right feeling and noble living , and he pre- pares the way for the time ...
... less inviting parts of the landscape veiled in mist unexplored . Indeed , the great aim of his preaching is to show the insignifi- cance of opinion compared with right feeling and noble living , and he pre- pares the way for the time ...
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Page 443 - But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 186 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; and they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 592 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O Sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 633 - A valuable contribution to the evidences of revelation, and disposes very conclusively of the arguments of those who would set God's Works against God's Word. No real difficulty is shirked, and no sophistry is left unexposed.
Page 418 - Commission of Inquiry and Advice in Respect of the Sanitary Interests of the United States Forces...
Page 597 - Stimulants, the only mode of treatment hitherto attempted, cannot quell the disease; they do but heighten the delirium.
Page 119 - AZgon, rough and merry, A Broadway Daphnis, on his tryst With Nais at the Brooklyn Ferry. A one-eyed Cyclops halted long In tattered cloak of army pattern; And Galatea joined the throng, — A blowsy, apple-vending slattern; While old Silenus staggered out From some new-fangled lunch-house handy, And bade the piper, with a shout. To strike up Yankee Doodle Dandy!
Page 52 - Old wives spinning their webs of tow, Or rocking weirdly to and fro In and out of the peat's dull glow, And old men mending their nets of twine, Talk together of dream and sign, Talk of the lost ship Palatine, — The ship that, a hundred years before, Freighted deep with its goodly store, In the gales of the equinox went ashore. The eager islanders one by one Counted the shots of her signal gun, And heard the crash when she drove right on...
Page 150 - Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud That beautifies Aurora's face, Or like the silver crimson shroud That Phoebus' smiling looks doth grace: Heigh ho, fair Rosalynde.
Page 654 - In the old French portion of the town, the thoroughfares are narrow and crooked, and some of the houses are very quaint and picturesque; being built of wood, with tumbledown galleries before the windows, approachable by stairs or rather ladders from the street. There are queer little barbers...