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Page 10
... organs and limbs of a sin- gle living body . The second is the vast system of iron muscles which , as it were , move the limbs of the mighty organism one upon another . What was the railroad - force which put the Sixth Regiment in ...
... organs and limbs of a sin- gle living body . The second is the vast system of iron muscles which , as it were , move the limbs of the mighty organism one upon another . What was the railroad - force which put the Sixth Regiment in ...
Page 43
... organs ; We are all An animal " and the greatest man comes very near this simple formula after a month or two of fever and starvation . James Grayden and his team pleased me well enough , MY HUNT AFTER " THE CAPTAIN . " 43.
... organs ; We are all An animal " and the greatest man comes very near this simple formula after a month or two of fever and starvation . James Grayden and his team pleased me well enough , MY HUNT AFTER " THE CAPTAIN . " 43.
Page 104
... organs of the intellectual faculties , such as all writers are supposed to possess in abound- ing measure . While I fell short of his ideal in this respect , he was pleased to say that he found me by no means the remote and inaccessible ...
... organs of the intellectual faculties , such as all writers are supposed to possess in abound- ing measure . While I fell short of his ideal in this respect , he was pleased to say that he found me by no means the remote and inaccessible ...
Page 124
... organs , gave rise to our sensa- tions . Epicurus borrowed the idea from him , and incorporated it into the famous system , of which Lucretius has given us the most popular version . Those who are curious on the matter will find the ...
... organs , gave rise to our sensa- tions . Epicurus borrowed the idea from him , and incorporated it into the famous system , of which Lucretius has given us the most popular version . Those who are curious on the matter will find the ...
Page 327
... our subject farther than we meant at starting ; but an essay on legs could hardly avoid the rambling tendency which naturally belongs to these organs . A VISIT TO THE AUTOCRAT'S LANDLADY . BY THE SPECIAL ITS SPOKES AND FELLOES . 327.
... our subject farther than we meant at starting ; but an essay on legs could hardly avoid the rambling tendency which naturally belongs to these organs . A VISIT TO THE AUTOCRAT'S LANDLADY . BY THE SPECIAL ITS SPOKES AND FELLOES . 327.
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Page 226 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Page 377 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet.
Page 175 - At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Page 461 - I should advise persisting in our struggle for liberty, though it were revealed from heaven that nine hundred and ninety-nine were to perish, and only one of a thousand were to survive, and retain his liberty ! One such free man must possess more virtue, and enjoy more happiness, than a thousand slaves ; and let him propagate his like, and transmit to them what he hath so nobly preserved.
Page 413 - Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heaven on a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities.
Page 267 - It was so nearly like visiting the battlefield to look over these views, that all the emotions excited by the actual sight of the stained and sordid scene, strewed with rags and wrecks, came back to us, and we buried them in the recesses of our cabinet as we would have buried the mutilated remains of the dead they too vividly represented.
Page 266 - Let him who wishes to know what war is look at this series of illustrations.
Page 154 - I look into the eyes of the caged tiger, and on the scaly train of the crocodile, stretched on the sands of the river that has mirrored a hundred dynasties. I stroll through Rhenish vineyards, I sit under Roman arches, I walk the streets of once buried cities, I look into the chasms of Alpine glaciers, and on the rush of wasteful cataracts. I pass, in a moment, from the banks of the Charles to the ford of the Jordan, and leave my outward frame in the arm-chair at my table, while in spirit I am looking...