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... present Distresses of the Country , 215 Hartley's Geography for Youth , 105 Harvest , Remedy for the late bad one , 215 Hatfield's ( Miss ) Terra Incognita of Lincolnshire , Hays's Family Annals , 103 326 Herbster , Madame , her Cavern ...
... present Distresses of the Country , 215 Hartley's Geography for Youth , 105 Harvest , Remedy for the late bad one , 215 Hatfield's ( Miss ) Terra Incognita of Lincolnshire , Hays's Family Annals , 103 326 Herbster , Madame , her Cavern ...
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... present of four hundred skins of water laden on a hundred camels , with four brazen jars of water from the Hyphasis ... presents of water brought from that city announced the atten- tion and hospitality of the sovereign . The embassy ...
... present of four hundred skins of water laden on a hundred camels , with four brazen jars of water from the Hyphasis ... presents of water brought from that city announced the atten- tion and hospitality of the sovereign . The embassy ...
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... the discord , the alarms , the bloodshed attending the present independence . The old man replied with great warmth : We are content with 6 discord , discord , we are content with alarms , we are 12 Elphinstone's Account of Caubul .
... the discord , the alarms , the bloodshed attending the present independence . The old man replied with great warmth : We are content with 6 discord , discord , we are content with alarms , we are 12 Elphinstone's Account of Caubul .
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... present to the mind at the same time ; but sometimes one set present themselves ; and at other times another , the first being out of sight . Hence the various purposes or inclinations that al- ternately prevail , and the uncertainty ...
... present to the mind at the same time ; but sometimes one set present themselves ; and at other times another , the first being out of sight . Hence the various purposes or inclinations that al- ternately prevail , and the uncertainty ...
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... present to be un peu dérangées . ' In two or three passages in the present correspondence , Dr. Franklin gives his opinion on parliamentary reform ; a topic which had not been so generally discussed in his time as it has been in a more ...
... present to be un peu dérangées . ' In two or three passages in the present correspondence , Dr. Franklin gives his opinion on parliamentary reform ; a topic which had not been so generally discussed in his time as it has been in a more ...
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Page 128 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Page 304 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learned the language of another world.
Page 302 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 301 - Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence, make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselves, And trust not to each other.
Page 300 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; «° They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Page 20 - To get over this, my way is, to divide half a sheet of paper by a line into two columns; writing over the one pro, and over the other con; then during three or four days' consideration, I put down under the different heads short hints of the different motives, that at different times occur to me, for or against the measure. When I have thus got them all together in one view, I...
Page 284 - Nymph of a fair, but erring line ! " Gently he said — "One hope is thine. Tis written in the Book of Fate, The Peri yet may be forgiven Who brings to this Eternal Gate The Gift that is most dear to Heaven ! Go, seek it, and redeem thy sin — Tis sweet to let the Pardon'd in ! " Rapidly as comets run To th...
Page 286 - Cheer'd by this hope, she bends her thither ; — Still laughs the radiant eye of heaven, Nor have the golden bowers of even In the rich west begun to wither ; — When, o'er the vale of Balbec winging Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing, with eager hands and eyes, The beautiful blue damsel-flies, That flutter'd round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers or flying gems...
Page 287 - And how felt he, the wretched Man reclining there — while memory ran o'er many a year of guilt and strife, flew o'er the dark flood of his life, nor found one sunny resting-place, nor brought him back one branch of grace !
Page 304 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watchdog bay'd beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...