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... Nature and of Man . Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War , Melville's 761 640 252 Biglow Papers , The . Second Series Book of the Sonnet , The : 123 510 Famous Americans of Recent Times , Parton's Greece , Ancient and Modern , Felton's ...
... Nature and of Man . Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War , Melville's 761 640 252 Biglow Papers , The . Second Series Book of the Sonnet , The : 123 510 Famous Americans of Recent Times , Parton's Greece , Ancient and Modern , Felton's ...
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... natural , gifts of the dumb creatures belong to them , and tending to make a man be- loved by his weak and erring fellow ... nature ; and not the gentle Melanchthon him- self , ready to welcome death as a ref- uge from the rage and ...
... natural , gifts of the dumb creatures belong to them , and tending to make a man be- loved by his weak and erring fellow ... nature ; and not the gentle Melanchthon him- self , ready to welcome death as a ref- uge from the rage and ...
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... Nature's kindly programme . -- Captain Charles Hazard , of the ship Orient Pearl , fell desperately in love with ... natural home in India , but has journeyed so far from its birth- place in these later years , took her father and mother ...
... Nature's kindly programme . -- Captain Charles Hazard , of the ship Orient Pearl , fell desperately in love with ... natural home in India , but has journeyed so far from its birth- place in these later years , took her father and mother ...
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... nature of selfish- ness at their leisure ; if to have all her thoughts centring on the one point of her own well - being by and by was selfishness , then Silence Withers was supremely selfish ; and if we are offend- ed with that form of ...
... nature of selfish- ness at their leisure ; if to have all her thoughts centring on the one point of her own well - being by and by was selfishness , then Silence Withers was supremely selfish ; and if we are offend- ed with that form of ...
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... nature had yielded and the obdurate will was broken . The garret was an awful place . All the skeleton - like ribs of the roof showed in the dim light , naked overhead , and the only floor to be trusted consisted of the few boards which ...
... nature had yielded and the obdurate will was broken . The garret was an awful place . All the skeleton - like ribs of the roof showed in the dim light , naked overhead , and the only floor to be trusted consisted of the few boards which ...
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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...