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... volumes there is much more than the FOR purposes of adventitious popularity , the Narrative of the Expedition to the Niger in 1841-2 should have appeared some years ago , before the public at large had recovered from the shock which the ...
... volumes there is much more than the FOR purposes of adventitious popularity , the Narrative of the Expedition to the Niger in 1841-2 should have appeared some years ago , before the public at large had recovered from the shock which the ...
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... volume of water which is de- posited on so large a surface of Africa , and of which the river is the drainage , in order to discharge it at several points into the universal receptacle . The water of the river is of a loamy color , and ...
... volume of water which is de- posited on so large a surface of Africa , and of which the river is the drainage , in order to discharge it at several points into the universal receptacle . The water of the river is of a loamy color , and ...
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... volumes of everything that snacked of neighboring seed - plots ? The two volumes might have shrunk to one under a judicious hand ; but Mr. Grant's un- usual and unquestionable grace , facility , and ten- derness , would have been all ...
... volumes of everything that snacked of neighboring seed - plots ? The two volumes might have shrunk to one under a judicious hand ; but Mr. Grant's un- usual and unquestionable grace , facility , and ten- derness , would have been all ...
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... volumes , and apportions unerr- ingly the poetical dress to the dimensions of the poetical thought , making each couplet and collec- tion of couplets what it is , and no other . WHAT LONDON IS . - London , which extends its intellectual ...
... volumes , and apportions unerr- ingly the poetical dress to the dimensions of the poetical thought , making each couplet and collec- tion of couplets what it is , and no other . WHAT LONDON IS . - London , which extends its intellectual ...
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... volume of miscellaneous poems ; which dropped still - born The biography of a poet can be little better than a ... volumes of verse , some earnest friend- " inactivity " of his publisher , Mr. Ollier , and ships , one passion , and a ...
... volume of miscellaneous poems ; which dropped still - born The biography of a poet can be little better than a ... volumes of verse , some earnest friend- " inactivity " of his publisher , Mr. Ollier , and ships , one passion , and a ...
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Page 264 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 297 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 54 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 366 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Page 254 - I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 52 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 398 - And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to Thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
Page 264 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?
Page 363 - Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest !" He smiled and wept when he spoke these words.
Page 56 - Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands ; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord, and my God.