“The” Miscellaneous Works: In 5 Volumes, Volume 2Lippincott, 1864 - 218 pages |
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... look round in a new world , full of life and motion , and ceaseless progress , and feel in our- selves all the vigor and spirit to keep pace with it , and do not foresee from any present signs how we shall be left behind in the race ...
... look round in a new world , full of life and motion , and ceaseless progress , and feel in our- selves all the vigor and spirit to keep pace with it , and do not foresee from any present signs how we shall be left behind in the race ...
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... look down yawning precipices or over distant sunny vales ; to see the world spread out under one's feet on a map ; to bring the stars near ; to view the smallest insects through a microscope ; to read history , and consider the ...
... look down yawning precipices or over distant sunny vales ; to see the world spread out under one's feet on a map ; to bring the stars near ; to view the smallest insects through a microscope ; to read history , and consider the ...
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... look upon the Vatican , and to read Shakspeare ; to gather up the wisdom of the ancients , and to pry into the future ; to listen to the trump of war , the shout of victory ; to question history as to the move- ments of the human heart ...
... look upon the Vatican , and to read Shakspeare ; to gather up the wisdom of the ancients , and to pry into the future ; to listen to the trump of war , the shout of victory ; to question history as to the move- ments of the human heart ...
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... look about one - to " screw one's courage to the sticking - place , " to graduate the scale of disappointment , and stave off appetite ti supper - time . You gain time , and time in this weather - cock world is everything . You may dine ...
... look about one - to " screw one's courage to the sticking - place , " to graduate the scale of disappointment , and stave off appetite ti supper - time . You gain time , and time in this weather - cock world is everything . You may dine ...
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... enough , and makes one look like a fool , to receive a printed notice of a blank in the last lottery , with a postscript hoping for your future favors . inconvenience attached to it than that of making men ridiculous 18 TABLE TALK .
... enough , and makes one look like a fool , to receive a printed notice of a blank in the last lottery , with a postscript hoping for your future favors . inconvenience attached to it than that of making men ridiculous 18 TABLE TALK .
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