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" In the depth of winter, when the sky is covered with clouds, and the land presents one cold, blank, lifeless surface of snow, how refreshing is it to the spirits to walk upon the shore, and to enjoy the eternal freshness and liveliness of ocean ! Even... "
The history of the Peloponnesian war - Page 529
by Thucydides - 1847
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The natural history of society in the barbarous and civilized state

William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...In the depth of winter, when the sky is covered with clouds, and the land presents one cold, blank, lifeless surface of snow, how refreshing is it to...winter, and covered the face of the earth with beauty."* The Ionian constitutions, from the simple influence of commerce, developed fully the rights of individuals...
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The Natural History of Society in the Barbarous and Civilized ..., Volume 2

William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1841 - 348 pages
...In the depth of winter, when the sky is covered with clouds, and the land presents one cold, blank, lifeless surface of snow, how refreshing is it to...winter, and covered the face of the earth with beauty."* The Ionian constitutions, from the simple influence of commerce, developed fully the rights of individuals...
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The Natural History of Society in the Barbarous and Civilized ..., Volume 2

William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1841 - 354 pages
...refreshing is it to the spirits to walk upon the shore, and to enjoy the eternal freshness and li veliness of ocean ! Even so in the deepest winter of the human...winter, and covered the face of the earth with beauty."* The Ionian constitutions, from the simple influence of commerce, developed fully the rights of individuals...
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The Biblical review, and Congregational magazine [formerly The ..., Volume 1

1846 - 492 pages
...hated by the old aristocracies, inasmuch as it has been the mightiest instrument in the civilisation of mankind. In the depth of winter, when the sky is...spirit, whose genial influence has now reached to the laud, has broken the chains of winter, and covered the face of the earth with beauty.'— pp. 108—110....
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Politics for the People, Issues 1-17

Frederick Denison Maurice, John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Great Britain - 1848 - 284 pages
...lack of common-sense in such piety if it be real, and still more if it be hypocritical. — DUMOULIN. The sea deserved to be hated by the old aristocracies,...that spirit whose genial influence has now reached the land, has broken the chains of winter, and covered the face of the earth with beauty. — ARNOLD....
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Select English poetry, with notes by E. Hughes

Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...civilization of mankind. In the depth of winter, when the sky is covered with clouds, and the iand presents one cold blank and lifeless surface of snow,...that spirit whose genial influence has now reached the land, has broken the chains of winter, and covered the face of the earth with beauty."— Arnold....
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...civilization of mankind. In the depth of winter, when the sky is covered with clouds, and the iand presents one cold blank and lifeless surface of snow,...that spirit whose genial influence has now reached the land, has broken the chains of winter, and covered the face of the earth with beauty." — Arnold....
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The Miscellaneous Works of Thomas Arnold: Collected and Republished

Thomas Arnold - Education - 1858 - 560 pages
...ministered with an ever-growing power to their children's greatness. Well, indeed, might the policy of'tlie old priest nobles of Egypt and India endeavour to...eternal freshness and liveliness of ocean. Even so in tlie deepest winter of the human race, when the earth was but one chilling expanse of inactivity, life...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 60

1863 - 568 pages
...it to the spirits to walk upon the shore, and to enjoy the eternal freshness and liveliness of the ocean ! Even so in the deepest winter of the human...winter, and covered the face of the earth with beauty." The relation of peculiar ideas to distinct races is also a remarkable chapter in this study. It must...
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Saint Pauls, Volume 12

English literature - 1873 - 778 pages
...with clouds, and the land presents one cold, blank, and lifeless surface of snow, how refreshing it is to the spirits to walk upon the shore, and to enjoy the eternal freshness and liveliness of ocean ! " Perhaps so — no doubt so — at times ; but there are sundry times and divers places in which...
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