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... fall , an uncanny sense of balance radiates from his words — not from any strict structural logic , but from a yearning to shine light on the hidden bends and bights of life and , in the process , to unveil whatever truths are to be had ...
... fall , an uncanny sense of balance radiates from his words — not from any strict structural logic , but from a yearning to shine light on the hidden bends and bights of life and , in the process , to unveil whatever truths are to be had ...
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... fall prize to hunters who " stand and stalk , " in the official Fish and Wildlife phrase , which means that they're out in the woods carrying a gun , maybe after deer , when they happen to pitch upon a bear . I've gone on several hound ...
... fall prize to hunters who " stand and stalk , " in the official Fish and Wildlife phrase , which means that they're out in the woods carrying a gun , maybe after deer , when they happen to pitch upon a bear . I've gone on several hound ...
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... fall to run and run , trying to crowd in a lifetime's excitement before he's chained up for another year . Dogs are very much like other animals ( watch a mother training her pups ) , except for the one central disloca- tion that they ...
... fall to run and run , trying to crowd in a lifetime's excitement before he's chained up for another year . Dogs are very much like other animals ( watch a mother training her pups ) , except for the one central disloca- tion that they ...
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... a bear , " as he puts it — that is , someone who hasn't already at some point shot a bear . And sometimes he reminisces sympathetically about how the whole world must have seemed to fall in on a bear 24 Hoagland on Nature.
... a bear , " as he puts it — that is , someone who hasn't already at some point shot a bear . And sometimes he reminisces sympathetically about how the whole world must have seemed to fall in on a bear 24 Hoagland on Nature.
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Essays Edward Hoagland. world must have seemed to fall in on a bear he caught last week , being chased so far and suddenly finding itself surrounded by more dogs and human beings than it had seen in a lifetime . Almost every young man ...
Essays Edward Hoagland. world must have seemed to fall in on a bear he caught last week , being chased so far and suddenly finding itself surrounded by more dogs and human beings than it had seen in a lifetime . Almost every young man ...
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Page 186 - But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: 18.
Page 191 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life : and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heeL...
Page 189 - Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
Page 188 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all. Where is the way where light dwelleth? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof, that thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
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Page 460 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things...
Page 185 - The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. Behold he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
Page 443 - ... would reduce it to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism and perhaps even extinction of the species.
Page 191 - Then the wolf shall live with the sheep, and the leopard lie down with the kid...
Page 186 - But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth : but thou shalt utterly destroy them...