A Fasciculus |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
agony Ahasuerus appears Bashkirs and Kirghises began blood body buried caliphs called Charles X Circassian commenced condition Cossacks Czarina daugh dead death delight earth enemies entire exhibit FASCICULUS favor fear feel fierce force forever French friends give Goldar grave grief half hand head heart Henry Clay honor hope horror immediately intellectual Jim's Kalmucks Khan king knowledge labor land laugh light living Louis Phillippe Louis XVI manner ment mighty miles mind nature neighbor Oubacha period person Pete pocket book poor possess premature burial Pristaw Rationalis reached rear Russian Russian empire sing sleep soon sooner spirit Squigs style suddenly sufficient tariff thing thought thousand tion tional throughout Torgau tribes turkey turn Tyler voice wagon wherein Whig party Whigs whilst whole Working-man's party young Zebec Zebec-Dorchi
Popular passages
Page 56 - ... examined his arm, heart, and breath, but could not, by the nicest scrutiny, discover the least symptom of life in him. We reasoned a long time about this odd appearance, as well as we could, and...
Page 18 - Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
Page 18 - His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, And his horns are like the horns of unicorns : With them he shall push the people Together to the ends of the earth : And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
Page 62 - But see, his face is black and full of blood; His eyeballs further out than when he lived, Staring full ghastly like a strangled man: His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling ; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdued.
Page 55 - We all three felt his pulse first ; it was distinct, though small and thready ; and his heart had its usual beating. He composed himself on his back, and lay in a still posture some time ; while I held his right hand, Dr. Baynard laid his hand on his heart, and Mr. Skrine held a clean lookingglass to his mouth. I found his pulse sink gradually, till at last I could not feel any by the most exact and nice touch.
Page 18 - Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Page 18 - ... how fertile will that imagination appear, which was able to clothe all the properties of elements, the qualifications of the mind, the virtues and vices, in forms and persons ; and to introduce them into actions agreeable to the nature of the things they shadowed...
Page 56 - By nine o'clock in the morning, in autumn, as we were going away, we observed some motion about the body, and upon examination found his pulse and the motion of his heart gradually returning ; he began to breathe gently, and speak softly. We were all astonished to the last degree at this unexpected change, and after some further conversation with him and...
Page 58 - He was taken out in a perfectly senseless state, his eyes closed, his hands cramped and powerless, his stomach shrunk very much, and his teeth jammed so fast together that they were forced to open his mouth with an iron instrument to pour a little water down his throat. He gradually recovered his senses and the use of his limbs ; and when we went to see him...
Page 61 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...