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... ment from the journals of polished travellers through barbarous nations : let us for once reverse the picture and see what enter- tainment can be drawn from the observations of a savage upon the manners and customs , vices and virtues ...
... ment from the journals of polished travellers through barbarous nations : let us for once reverse the picture and see what enter- tainment can be drawn from the observations of a savage upon the manners and customs , vices and virtues ...
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... ment , appeared repugnant to the doctrines of the church or the practices of the faithful , these biblical critics will be sure to inform you that they are a part of the ceremo- nial law ; and therefore not to be observed by christians ...
... ment , appeared repugnant to the doctrines of the church or the practices of the faithful , these biblical critics will be sure to inform you that they are a part of the ceremo- nial law ; and therefore not to be observed by christians ...
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... ment themselves , and then strut about with the most disgusting pomposity . These people were once slaves , but became unruly , and , by a successful exertion of their powers , emancipated themselves : but it appears that they were ...
... ment themselves , and then strut about with the most disgusting pomposity . These people were once slaves , but became unruly , and , by a successful exertion of their powers , emancipated themselves : but it appears that they were ...
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... ment of his journey , " Sweet humble vale ! your de-- lights are forever vanished ! your pleasures can never return ! " Having thus said , he turned himself around to take a view of the elevated plain on which he stood . The face of the ...
... ment of his journey , " Sweet humble vale ! your de-- lights are forever vanished ! your pleasures can never return ! " Having thus said , he turned himself around to take a view of the elevated plain on which he stood . The face of the ...
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... ment ; but , as a long continued usurpation is said to con- fer a legitimate right , he was , at last , induced to yield the precedency in these words , as he was assured that he would lose none of the power by his acquiescence . It was ...
... ment ; but , as a long continued usurpation is said to con- fer a legitimate right , he was , at last , induced to yield the precedency in these words , as he was assured that he would lose none of the power by his acquiescence . It was ...
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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.