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... fire upon the hearth was low and the pot had to be kept boiling . High farming and the inclosure of parishes have swept these curious and picturesque vegetable deformities from the face of the earth by tens of thousands . But they are ...
... fire upon the hearth was low and the pot had to be kept boiling . High farming and the inclosure of parishes have swept these curious and picturesque vegetable deformities from the face of the earth by tens of thousands . But they are ...
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... fire or otherwise , the approach of a submarine of the efficiency of the Holland , although many who have not seen her are quite positive that she cannot do what she does do and has been reported as doing by a most careful board of ...
... fire or otherwise , the approach of a submarine of the efficiency of the Holland , although many who have not seen her are quite positive that she cannot do what she does do and has been reported as doing by a most careful board of ...
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... fire from the enemy - while the other route over the south - western face of the mountain was visible from the Boer positions . General Warren , accompanied by some of his staff , reconnoitred the route from the side of Trichardt's ...
... fire from the enemy - while the other route over the south - western face of the mountain was visible from the Boer positions . General Warren , accompanied by some of his staff , reconnoitred the route from the side of Trichardt's ...
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... fire heavy guns from that eminence , no further attack by the British on the range which runs from Acton Homes to Brakfontein would have been possible . The task of the men on the hill now was to secure themselves as best they could ...
... fire heavy guns from that eminence , no further attack by the British on the range which runs from Acton Homes to Brakfontein would have been possible . The task of the men on the hill now was to secure themselves as best they could ...
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... fire . It was not until several hours later , when the fog disappeared , that it was seen that some 150 yards beyond the summit line the plateau broke sharply off , and that an enemy could , completely unseen , creep up to the rocks at ...
... fire . It was not until several hours later , when the fog disappeared , that it was seen that some 150 yards beyond the summit line the plateau broke sharply off , and that an enemy could , completely unseen , creep up to the rocks at ...
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Page 266 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Page 8 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 589 - All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist; Not its semblance, but itself; no beauty, nor good, nor power Whose voice has gone forth, but each survives for the melodist When eternity affirms the conception of an hour.
Page 629 - And I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words read unto me, as they are commonly understood by English Protestants, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever...
Page 589 - Well, it is earth with me; silence resumes her reign: I will be patient and proud, and soberly acquiesce. Give me the keys. I feel for the common chord again, Sliding by semitones till I sink to the minor, — yes, And I blunt it into a ninth, and I stand on alien ground, Surveying awhile the heights I rolled from into the deep; Which, hark, I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C Major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep.
Page 354 - The valleys stand so thick with corn, that they laugh and sing.
Page 20 - Lincoln, in behalf of the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Church of England.
Page 622 - The historical decoration was purposely of no more importance than a background requires; and my stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul: little else is worth study.
Page 87 - Articles aforesaid shall in no case occasion any obstacle to the measures which the Imperial Ottoman Government may think it necessary to take in order to insure by its own forces the defence of its other possessions situated on the eastern coast of the Red Sea.
Page 95 - The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to the surrender of this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers.