 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...foundations of the earth; and of those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of...existence! What a glorious monument of human invention, which has in a manner triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into communion;... | |
 | Elocution - 1870 - 314 pages
...foundations of the earth ; and those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail gliding along the edge of...wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the earth in communion ; has established an interchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile regions of the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 pages
...mind; an image formed 3 Quai7 ter-rail' ing, the railing on by the mind, and supposed to be real ; 6. Sometimes a distant sail gliding along the edge of...triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the eai-th in communion ; has established an in'terchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile ' regions... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1872 - 264 pages
...foundations of the earth ; and of those wild phantasms* that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of...triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into communion; has established an interchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile regions... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - Elocution - 1872 - 460 pages
...a distant sail gliding along the edge of the oceau would be another theme of idle speculation. Ho\v interesting this fragment of a world hastening to rejoin the great mass of existenceI What a glorious monument of human invention, that has thus triumphed over wind and wave... | |
 | Lucius Alonzo Butterfield - 1874 - 36 pages
...foundations of the earth ; and of those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of...wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the earth in communion ; has established an interchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile regions of the... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1874 - 142 pages
...distance merely, can say anything by which their end will be BO effectually answered as by silence. 6. Sometimes, a distant sail, gliding along the edge...triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the world into communion ; has established an interchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile regions... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - Elocution - 1876 - 458 pages
...foundations of the earth ; and those wild phantasms that swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail gliding along the edge of...wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the earth in communion ; has established an interchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile regions of the... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - Elocution - 1876 - 454 pages
...stress; moderate volume, sometimes large, especially when the object is large; long slides. Thus:— Sometimes a distant sail gliding along the edge of...existence ! What a glorious monument of human invention has thus triumphed over wind and wave ; has brought the ends of the earth in communion ; has established... | |
 | Sea stories - 1876 - 504 pages
...foundations of the earth; and those wild phantasms which swell the tales of fishermen and sailors. Sometimes a distant sail gliding along the edge of the ocean would be another theme for idle speculation. How interesting this fragment of a world hastening to rejoin the great mass of... | |
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Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of the ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation. How interesting this fragment of a world, hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence! 
