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... prey to start up in every valley , and the devil out of every thornbush . He looks for robbers behind every hedge , savage Indians in every wood . He says his pray ers before he crosses a bridge , and confesses his THE SAVAGE .
... prey to start up in every valley , and the devil out of every thornbush . He looks for robbers behind every hedge , savage Indians in every wood . He says his pray ers before he crosses a bridge , and confesses his THE SAVAGE .
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... its appearance . We cannot under- take to satisfy the curiosity of the public , as to the being that we saw in our dream ; for of that we are ignorant We at first supposed it to be the devil of THE SAVAGE . , 19 DISCOVERIES. ...
... its appearance . We cannot under- take to satisfy the curiosity of the public , as to the being that we saw in our dream ; for of that we are ignorant We at first supposed it to be the devil of THE SAVAGE . , 19 DISCOVERIES. ...
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... devil of a fine thing ! Then , it will be filled with drinking songs and hellish fine stories . We'll laugh like damnation , hey ( ! " " Do you not suppose , Piomingo , that these brave boys were sadly disappointed by the appearance of ...
... devil of a fine thing ! Then , it will be filled with drinking songs and hellish fine stories . We'll laugh like damnation , hey ( ! " " Do you not suppose , Piomingo , that these brave boys were sadly disappointed by the appearance of ...
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... DEVIL . Posthabui tamen illorum mea seria ludo . Books have been written on the rights of man ; and we have heard much of the wrongs which he has sus- tained . In one treatise the rights of woman are explain- ed ; and in another her ...
... DEVIL . Posthabui tamen illorum mea seria ludo . Books have been written on the rights of man ; and we have heard much of the wrongs which he has sus- tained . In one treatise the rights of woman are explain- ed ; and in another her ...
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... devil . As to rights , we will suppose that he has none ; but does that justify the children of men in imputing to him crimes of which he is not guilty ? If men act right , they arrogate the merit to themselves ; but if they act wrong ...
... devil . As to rights , we will suppose that he has none ; but does that justify the children of men in imputing to him crimes of which he is not guilty ? If men act right , they arrogate the merit to themselves ; but if they act wrong ...
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Page 289 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 78 - There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men that were of old, men of renown.
Page 10 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 156 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Page 202 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 225 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 301 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Beth day and night.
Page 217 - For pronunciation the best general rule is, to consider those as the most elegant speakers who deviate least from the written words.