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... feelings ; but it was more their feelings than his own to which he gave utterance . In the case of the Philadelphia ... feeling . The house of representa- tives is goaded by petitions for annexation and ap- propriation ; General Jackson ...
... feelings ; but it was more their feelings than his own to which he gave utterance . In the case of the Philadelphia ... feeling . The house of representa- tives is goaded by petitions for annexation and ap- propriation ; General Jackson ...
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... feeling this , and at the same time feeling a sort of shame at the unexpected weakness . He had believed himself proof to the influence of grandeur nevertheless , he could not help it ; he man ; and Capstick heavily dropped himself into ...
... feeling this , and at the same time feeling a sort of shame at the unexpected weakness . He had believed himself proof to the influence of grandeur nevertheless , he could not help it ; he man ; and Capstick heavily dropped himself into ...
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... feeling . " What a glorious fellow Shakspeare must have been , " said he ; " Walter Scott was fine , but had a worldly twist . Shakspeare must have been just the man to live with . " He spoke with affection and high respect of Lord ...
... feeling . " What a glorious fellow Shakspeare must have been , " said he ; " Walter Scott was fine , but had a worldly twist . Shakspeare must have been just the man to live with . " He spoke with affection and high respect of Lord ...
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... feeling , and expression , read Dryden . He is the best informer and expositor . " We must under- stand this as applicable to Dryden's late produc- tions - not his rhyming tragedies and stiff qua- trains , which are anything but natural ...
... feeling , and expression , read Dryden . He is the best informer and expositor . " We must under- stand this as applicable to Dryden's late produc- tions - not his rhyming tragedies and stiff qua- trains , which are anything but natural ...
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... feeling and expression , self and his plaster casts . The dead whiteness of and his refined taste , are indeed remarkable ; but , the stucco copies is glaringly monotonous , whilst in place of rendering him miserable , as Byron has the ...
... feeling and expression , self and his plaster casts . The dead whiteness of and his refined taste , are indeed remarkable ; but , the stucco copies is glaringly monotonous , whilst in place of rendering him miserable , as Byron has the ...
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Page 131 - I have no pleasure in them"; while the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain; in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened...
Page 304 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a Youth to whom was given So much of earth — so much of Heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 190 - The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills : They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Page 293 - Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said : It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways.
Page 388 - He paweth in the valley and rejoiceth in his strength; He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear and is not affrighted; Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, The glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; Neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, "Ha, Ha!" And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Page 337 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 130 - An inquiry into the relative weights of the . . ultimate particles of bodies is a subject, as far as I know, entirely new : I have lately been prosecuting this enquiry with remarkable success. The principle cannot be entered upon in this paper ; but I shall just subjoin the results, as far as they appear to be ascertained by my experiments.
Page 85 - Remember that, and every other article of your sacred covenant. But I must herewithal exhort you to take heed what you receive as truth; examine it, consider it, and compare it with other scriptures of truth, before you receive it; for it is not possible the Christian world should come so lately out of such thick antichristian darkness, and that perfection of knowledge should break forth at once.
Page 337 - It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic speculatist, will be realised, and that we shall see engines travelling at the rate of twelve, sixteen, eighteen, twenty miles an hour. Nothing could do 'more harm towards their general adoption and improvement than the promulgation of such nonsense...
Page 124 - Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable Particles, of such Sizes and Figures, and with such other Properties, and in such Proportion to Space, as most conduced to the End for which he form'd them...