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Page 5
... hope , and revel in the light and airy fields of imagination . Let us skim lightly over the surface of nature : the flowers grow on the surface ; and honey may be extracted from flowers . Let us be content with the trimmings , the ...
... hope , and revel in the light and airy fields of imagination . Let us skim lightly over the surface of nature : the flowers grow on the surface ; and honey may be extracted from flowers . Let us be content with the trimmings , the ...
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... hope to have it said in some tavern or beerhouse that " John Gormand is the damnedest fellow to eat that ever lived . He demolished , the other day , at the sign of the Mousetrap , a whole round of beef , eat ten dozen of oysters , ten ...
... hope to have it said in some tavern or beerhouse that " John Gormand is the damnedest fellow to eat that ever lived . He demolished , the other day , at the sign of the Mousetrap , a whole round of beef , eat ten dozen of oysters , ten ...
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... hope you will touch on this subject occasionally . It must be admitted , on all 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 ...
... hope you will touch on this subject occasionally . It must be admitted , on all 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 ...
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... hope that our Savage , when arrived at years of maturity , will " put away childish things : " and we wish that Solomon would follow his example . ESQUIRE . MOST of the Indians who live near the frontiers of the United States have ...
... hope that our Savage , when arrived at years of maturity , will " put away childish things : " and we wish that Solomon would follow his example . ESQUIRE . MOST of the Indians who live near the frontiers of the United States have ...
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... Hope . She strewed his path with flowers : and her presence shed abroad the sunshine of cheerfulness and joy . She led him forward by the hand : and distant objects , when pointed out by her finger , assumed a supernatural and celestial ...
... Hope . She strewed his path with flowers : and her presence shed abroad the sunshine of cheerfulness and joy . She led him forward by the hand : and distant objects , when pointed out by her finger , assumed a supernatural and celestial ...
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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.