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... never to have recourse to indecent ribaldry to supply the deficiency . Those who may feel disposed to retire awhile from the conflicts of political warfare and seek for relaxation and re- pose in the wigwam of Piomingo , shall meet with ...
... never to have recourse to indecent ribaldry to supply the deficiency . Those who may feel disposed to retire awhile from the conflicts of political warfare and seek for relaxation and re- pose in the wigwam of Piomingo , shall meet with ...
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... never lie down to sleep , any more . I will not die . " " My dear boy , look at Quibo : he has feet , but he can- not walk ; he has hands , but he cannot bend his bow , or take an arrow from his quiver ; he has eyes , but he can- not ...
... never lie down to sleep , any more . I will not die . " " My dear boy , look at Quibo : he has feet , but he can- not walk ; he has hands , but he cannot bend his bow , or take an arrow from his quiver ; he has eyes , but he can- not ...
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... never seen a young christian " rise up to the hoary head or honor " the face of , an old man , " unless his age were supported by wealth or authority , we are necessarily led to suppose that the precept above mentioned is considered as ...
... never seen a young christian " rise up to the hoary head or honor " the face of , an old man , " unless his age were supported by wealth or authority , we are necessarily led to suppose that the precept above mentioned is considered as ...
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... never return ; and he , poor soul ! gapes like a fish elevated above the sur- face of the water by the line of the fisherman . He gazes with surprise on every object he has not been ac- customed to contemplate . He expects some beast of ...
... never return ; and he , poor soul ! gapes like a fish elevated above the sur- face of the water by the line of the fisherman . He gazes with surprise on every object he has not been ac- customed to contemplate . He expects some beast of ...
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... never resort to unless on extraordinary occasions . We once studied the science of powwowing under the celebrated Kaioka . Kaioka was a great man : a priest , a prophet , and magician . He could predict the approach of comets , and the ...
... never resort to unless on extraordinary occasions . We once studied the science of powwowing under the celebrated Kaioka . Kaioka was a great man : a priest , a prophet , and magician . He could predict the approach of comets , and the ...
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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.