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... reach down through the centuries and become the linguistic ancestors of the mighty English - speaking peoples of the modern world . On the frontier of the old Roman Empire , as it sank to decay , glimpses appear of some Germanic tribes ...
... reach down through the centuries and become the linguistic ancestors of the mighty English - speaking peoples of the modern world . On the frontier of the old Roman Empire , as it sank to decay , glimpses appear of some Germanic tribes ...
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... reach out for mighty enter- prises , go forth upon perilous expeditions , do all that skill and valor could do , try the last device , use the last ounce of strength , strike the last blow , and then - if all proved vain - accept defeat ...
... reach out for mighty enter- prises , go forth upon perilous expeditions , do all that skill and valor could do , try the last device , use the last ounce of strength , strike the last blow , and then - if all proved vain - accept defeat ...
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... reach or foot explore . The English adventurers founded towns upon the shore , hewed down the forests , clearing field by field and farm by farm , toiled and fought their way ever westward , till the United States and Canada span the ...
... reach or foot explore . The English adventurers founded towns upon the shore , hewed down the forests , clearing field by field and farm by farm , toiled and fought their way ever westward , till the United States and Canada span the ...
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... reach out from their beloved little island to learn all that could be known or told or imagined of the wide world , which did not yet include America . The diction of this ancient work bearing the name of Mandeville shows the degree of ...
... reach out from their beloved little island to learn all that could be known or told or imagined of the wide world , which did not yet include America . The diction of this ancient work bearing the name of Mandeville shows the degree of ...
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... reach England . All this proved the eager demand for such a work . When , in 1529 , the mighty prime minister , Cardinal Wolsey , fell , Thomas Cromwell , an ambitious , cold- blooded politician , without religion or principle , rose to ...
... reach England . All this proved the eager demand for such a work . When , in 1529 , the mighty prime minister , Cardinal Wolsey , fell , Thomas Cromwell , an ambitious , cold- blooded politician , without religion or principle , rose to ...
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Page 269 - When the stormy winds do blow ; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow! The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn ; Till danger's troubled night depart And the star of peace return. Then, then, ye ocean- warriors ! Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow ; When the fiery fight is heard no more, And the storm has ceased to blow.
Page 229 - No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Page 271 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 224 - I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. " The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation : he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Page 276 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Page 266 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 259 - The antler'd monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste. But, ere his fleet career he took, The dew-drops from his flanks he shook ; Like crested leader proud and high...
Page 285 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 228 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Page 228 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.