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... father : but , to whom shall the father look up for support ? He is conscious of his own weakness , and feels his dependence on every thing that surrounds him . He cannot subject nature to his empire , nor drive the planets from their ...
... father : but , to whom shall the father look up for support ? He is conscious of his own weakness , and feels his dependence on every thing that surrounds him . He cannot subject nature to his empire , nor drive the planets from their ...
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... fathers ! Render not , O ye sons of men , the common occurrences of life insipid , by your folly , which you are pleased to dignify with the name of wisdom . Be as other men . Seize the rattle of folly ; dance to the piping of a giddy ...
... fathers ! Render not , O ye sons of men , the common occurrences of life insipid , by your folly , which you are pleased to dignify with the name of wisdom . Be as other men . Seize the rattle of folly ; dance to the piping of a giddy ...
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... father of gods and men is forgotten .. Neptune has lost the dominion of the waves , and Pluto , the empire of the shades . The sun.is no longer in the chariot of Apollo , nor the moon under the regency of his sister . Paphos and Cyprus ...
... father of gods and men is forgotten .. Neptune has lost the dominion of the waves , and Pluto , the empire of the shades . The sun.is no longer in the chariot of Apollo , nor the moon under the regency of his sister . Paphos and Cyprus ...
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... Father in God , Chris- topher Overgood ? " When Constantine , the great , first christianized the Roman empire , he invented a long string of delectable titles . An account of them may be seen in Gibbon's De- cline and Fall of the Roman ...
... Father in God , Chris- topher Overgood ? " When Constantine , the great , first christianized the Roman empire , he invented a long string of delectable titles . An account of them may be seen in Gibbon's De- cline and Fall of the Roman ...
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... father of lies , " and do not believe a word you say . ) Devil . But that , which displeases me more than any thing else , is their habit of attributing to me the origi nation of a thousand pitiful sneaking little criminalities , with ...
... father of lies , " and do not believe a word you say . ) Devil . But that , which displeases me more than any thing else , is their habit of attributing to me the origi nation of a thousand pitiful sneaking little criminalities , with ...
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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.