The Gates Wide Open; Or, Scenes in Another WorldLee and Shepard, 1870 - 340 pages |
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... madam , you love art . That is something I have now to acquire , and I am taking my first lessons in draw- ing . In the utilitarian world in which , when a boy , I lived , Art was not regarded with much favor . Indeed , an artist ...
... madam , you love art . That is something I have now to acquire , and I am taking my first lessons in draw- ing . In the utilitarian world in which , when a boy , I lived , Art was not regarded with much favor . Indeed , an artist ...
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... madam , that this is a very ancient world , and has been peopled many cycles of centuries . It is one of worlds of Beauty and Art , or , as my son has it , of the True and the Beautiful in Art . If you have circled it before alighting ...
... madam , that this is a very ancient world , and has been peopled many cycles of centuries . It is one of worlds of Beauty and Art , or , as my son has it , of the True and the Beautiful in Art . If you have circled it before alighting ...
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... madam , " said the deacon , " you do not begir . to guess the embarrassments that await you . Here is a world , one of fifty - two planets , that belong to this system , whose history goes back many millions of years , and every age an ...
... madam , " said the deacon , " you do not begir . to guess the embarrassments that await you . Here is a world , one of fifty - two planets , that belong to this system , whose history goes back many millions of years , and every age an ...
Page 38
... madam . In our world everything is regarded as valuable or otherwise for its utility . An animal for his fur or his flesh , but here are animals whose only use , outside their own joy of living , seems to be to fill the mind with forms ...
... madam . In our world everything is regarded as valuable or otherwise for its utility . An animal for his fur or his flesh , but here are animals whose only use , outside their own joy of living , seems to be to fill the mind with forms ...
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... madam , but probably fifty to seventy - five thousand are scattered over this globe , in its hamlets , villas , towns and cities . " " So few ! John saw in heaven a great multitude , The author quotes from memory . The paper by Faraday ...
... madam , but probably fifty to seventy - five thousand are scattered over this globe , in its hamlets , villas , towns and cities . " " So few ! John saw in heaven a great multitude , The author quotes from memory . The paper by Faraday ...
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Page 302 - Lo, these are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him?
Page 106 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
Page 66 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...
Page 265 - HEAR, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: For the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me.
Page 42 - Christians here, and of these we have a great multitude which no man can number. of all nations, and kindreds, and peoples, and tongues.
Page 352 - To him that hath loved me, and washed me from my sins in his own blood, to him be glory both now and forever.
Page 215 - British, to signify that power of the mind which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and irresistible impulse ; derived neither from education nor from habit, but from nature...
Page 106 - And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
Page 97 - Commander : he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a Tow'r ; his form had yet not lost All her Original brightness, nor appear'd Less than Arch Angel ruin'd, and th...
Page 96 - And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is, But now begins ; for, from this happy day, The Old Dragon, under ground In straiter limits bound, Not half so far casts his usurped sway ; And, wroth to see his kingdom fail, Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.