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Page 52
... kind of house . You recollect the pretty story of Pizarro and the Peruvian Inca : how the Inca asked one of the Spaniards to write the word Dios ( God ) upon his thumbnail , and then , showing it to the rest , found only Pizarro unable ...
... kind of house . You recollect the pretty story of Pizarro and the Peruvian Inca : how the Inca asked one of the Spaniards to write the word Dios ( God ) upon his thumbnail , and then , showing it to the rest , found only Pizarro unable ...
Page 82
... gone . " Good day , " he said to the face . " Good day to you , sir . " " I am glad you have a fine sky again to look at . " " Thank you , sir . It is kind of you . ” " You are an invalid , I fear ? ” 82 READINGS IN LITERATURE.
... gone . " Good day , " he said to the face . " Good day to you , sir . " " I am glad you have a fine sky again to look at . " " Thank you , sir . It is kind of you . ” " You are an invalid , I fear ? ” 82 READINGS IN LITERATURE.
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... kind of substitute for conversation in the click and play of its pegs , Barbox Brothers took the opportunity of observing her . He guessed her to be thirty . The charm of her transparent face and large bright brown eyes was not that ...
... kind of substitute for conversation in the click and play of its pegs , Barbox Brothers took the opportunity of observing her . He guessed her to be thirty . The charm of her transparent face and large bright brown eyes was not that ...
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... kind were the writings of Homer , an ancient poet who lived and wrote four or five hundred years before Alexander's day . The young Alexander was greatly delighted with Homer's tales . He could understand them very easily , 120 READINGS ...
... kind were the writings of Homer , an ancient poet who lived and wrote four or five hundred years before Alexander's day . The young Alexander was greatly delighted with Homer's tales . He could understand them very easily , 120 READINGS ...
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... kind , came to invade the property of its neighbor . Soon , then , a terrible encounter followed , in which the invader seemed to have the victory , and the laborious spider was obliged to take refuge in its hole . Upon this , I ...
... kind , came to invade the property of its neighbor . Soon , then , a terrible encounter followed , in which the invader seemed to have the victory , and the laborious spider was obliged to take refuge in its hole . Upon this , I ...
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Page 48 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own government...
Page 43 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 364 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 357 - Yet Love will dream, and Faith will trust, (Since He who knows our need is just,) That somehow, somewhere, meet we must.
Page 26 - Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Page 142 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth, "For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more...
Page 42 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure We are met on a great battle-field of that war We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Page 152 - Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord. For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Page 146 - This was the truest warrior That ever buckled sword, This the most gifted poet That ever breathed a word; And never earth's philosopher Traced with his golden pen, On the deathless page, truths half so sage As he wrote down for men.
Page 252 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.