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... our intercourse with the Imaum of Muscat , The islands in the Persian Gulf which Captain and the Arab chiefs have ever since that date Malcolm wished to obtain for the British Govern . proved true friends of the British connexion .
... our intercourse with the Imaum of Muscat , The islands in the Persian Gulf which Captain and the Arab chiefs have ever since that date Malcolm wished to obtain for the British Govern . proved true friends of the British connexion .
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... had not expected his four slender legs to be broken recive as sincere , their pretended envy of his by the concussion , and bounds on as before . happiness as true , and when they laughed at But for all that it was trying work for ...
... had not expected his four slender legs to be broken recive as sincere , their pretended envy of his by the concussion , and bounds on as before . happiness as true , and when they laughed at But for all that it was trying work for ...
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A knot . all things just then through a rosy medium . kerrie whirled through the air - I felt a blow on the However true might be his idea , as well as side of my head , -a horrible sensation of over . those of his companions ...
A knot . all things just then through a rosy medium . kerrie whirled through the air - I felt a blow on the However true might be his idea , as well as side of my head , -a horrible sensation of over . those of his companions ...
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... and that this is not the almost impenetrable jungle favoured the its least true chapter , poor Ellen Lee's tears have miscreant , and not a trace of bim was discovered . told . TANGLED TALK , “ Sir , we had talk . " - Dr. Johnson .
... and that this is not the almost impenetrable jungle favoured the its least true chapter , poor Ellen Lee's tears have miscreant , and not a trace of bim was discovered . told . TANGLED TALK , “ Sir , we had talk . " - Dr. Johnson .
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True , let them ; but , what if not only partial enough to overthrow a dynasty ; and people laws , but false ideals stand in the way ? go by thousands , to this day , to see enacted G .: I don't know anything about over again the story ...
True , let them ; but , what if not only partial enough to overthrow a dynasty ; and people laws , but false ideals stand in the way ? go by thousands , to this day , to see enacted G .: I don't know anything about over again the story ...
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Page 99 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 141 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 335 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 17 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps...
Page 99 - And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 459 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Page 273 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Page 207 - The Karens are a meek, peaceful race, simple and credulous, with many of the softer virtues, and few flagrant vices. Though greatly addicted to drunkenness, extremely filthy and indolent in their habits, their morals, in other respects, are superior to many more civilized races.
Page 427 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...
Page 20 - It is the same ! — for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free ; Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow ; Nought may endure but Mutability.