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... pieces while feeding . The character of the Butcher - bird is entitled to no common degree of respect . His activity is visible in all his motions ; his courage and intrepidity beyond every other bird of his size ( one of his own tribe ...
... pieces while feeding . The character of the Butcher - bird is entitled to no common degree of respect . His activity is visible in all his motions ; his courage and intrepidity beyond every other bird of his size ( one of his own tribe ...
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... pieces are treated with contempt , and passed over in silence by those against whom they are directed . " Wash- On this passage we shall not pause to comment . ington complaining that he had been set up as a mark for the arrows of ...
... pieces are treated with contempt , and passed over in silence by those against whom they are directed . " Wash- On this passage we shall not pause to comment . ington complaining that he had been set up as a mark for the arrows of ...
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... piece . We do not perceive any importance in this piece of intelligence ; but it is quite as interesting as certain dull passages from a hypocritical message which was inflicted upon us in an ear- lier part of the volume . Mr. Nelson ...
... piece . We do not perceive any importance in this piece of intelligence ; but it is quite as interesting as certain dull passages from a hypocritical message which was inflicted upon us in an ear- lier part of the volume . Mr. Nelson ...
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... piece belted across his shoulders . Voila , as a French writer would say , a traveller through the terri- tory of Mississippi in the year 1810. At the present day he might visit every nook with less danger from personal vio- lence or ...
... piece belted across his shoulders . Voila , as a French writer would say , a traveller through the terri- tory of Mississippi in the year 1810. At the present day he might visit every nook with less danger from personal vio- lence or ...
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... pieces , and then following up his position by destroying the remainder in detail . For this purpose , he taught generals to divide their armies upon the march , with a view to celerity of movement , and facility of supply , and to ...
... pieces , and then following up his position by destroying the remainder in detail . For this purpose , he taught generals to divide their armies upon the march , with a view to celerity of movement , and facility of supply , and to ...
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Page 517 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything, for I know it is but a play; and, if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet, if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Page 517 - Partridge gave that credit to Mr Garrick which he had denied to Jones, and fell into so violent a trembling that his knees knocked against each other. Jones asked him what was the matter, and whether he was afraid of the warrior upon the stage ! ' O la ! sir," said he, ' I perceive now it is what you told me.
Page 448 - THOU art no lingerer in monarch's hall — A joy thou art, and a wealth to all! A bearer of hope unto land and sea...
Page 404 - Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.
Page 383 - Salve regina, or vesper hymn to the Virgin, he made an impressive address to his crew. He pointed out the goodness of God in thus conducting them by soft and favoring breezes across a tranquil ocean, cheering their hopes continually with fresh signs, increasing as their fears augmented, and thus leading and guiding them to a promised land. He now reminded them of the orders he had given on leaving the Canaries, that, after sailing westward seven hundred leagues, they should not make sail after midnight.
Page 384 - ... to give to all remote and unknown regions ? Had he come upon some wild island far in the Indian Sea ? or was this the famed Cipango itself, the object of his golden fancies...
Page 391 - ... the seeds of all mischief, have no place with them. They are content with so little, that in so large a country they have rather superfluity than scarceness; so that they seem to live in the golden world, without toil, living in open gardens; not intrenched with dykes, divided with hedges, or defended with walls.
Page 448 - And it laugh'd into beauty at that bright spell. To the earth's wild places a guest thou art, Flushing the waste like the rose's heart; And thou scornest not from thy pomp to shed A tender smile on the ruin's head.
Page 383 - Sanchez of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in .sudden and passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance...
Page 384 - Finding, however, that there was no attempt to pursue nor molest them, they gradually recovered from their terror, and approached the Spaniards with great awe ; frequently prostrating themselves on the earth, and making signs of adoration. During the...