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... hands must tremble , thine eyes become dim , and death put a period to thy existence . " " What is death ? " " Death is ... hand and led me to the door of our hut . " Raise your eyes , my son , and observe those red clouds in the heavens ...
... hands must tremble , thine eyes become dim , and death put a period to thy existence . " " What is death ? " " Death is ... hand and led me to the door of our hut . " Raise your eyes , my son , and observe those red clouds in the heavens ...
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... hand , adding , " Rest in peace : the good being will send down his angels to watch over your slumbers . " I slept ; and sweet was my repose . What can soothe and calm the mind like the protection of a great and benc- volent being ? The ...
... hand , adding , " Rest in peace : the good being will send down his angels to watch over your slumbers . " I slept ; and sweet was my repose . What can soothe and calm the mind like the protection of a great and benc- volent being ? The ...
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... hand , attempt to remove the veil with which nature has thought proper to cover the ark which contains her secrets , their happiness is blight- ed . Foolish men ! to break the glasses through which their mothers and nurses were content ...
... hand , attempt to remove the veil with which nature has thought proper to cover the ark which contains her secrets , their happiness is blight- ed . Foolish men ! to break the glasses through which their mothers and nurses were content ...
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... hand , and the 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 ...
... hand , and the 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 ...
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... hands , that every man of ho- nor is bound by the professions he thinks proper delibe- rately to make ; therefore , no man , nor set of men , can think it hard that their actions should be compared with that standard which they have ...
... hands , that every man of ho- nor is bound by the professions he thinks proper delibe- rately to make ; therefore , no man , nor set of men , can think it hard that their actions should be compared with that standard which they have ...
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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.