The Living Age, Volume 213E. Littell & Company, 1897 |
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... the causes which led to it . and of the means by which its recur- rence may be prevented . Lord Roberts discusses both questions in his 30th and tility to us had become a bond of union . 14 Forty - one Years in India .
... the causes which led to it . and of the means by which its recur- rence may be prevented . Lord Roberts discusses both questions in his 30th and tility to us had become a bond of union . 14 Forty - one Years in India .
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... means altogether ignorant impostors . The craft is handed down from father to son , and a Feddah , or Ju - Ju man , is set apart at a very early age and care- fully trained in the knowledge of every herb which may be used to kill or ...
... means altogether ignorant impostors . The craft is handed down from father to son , and a Feddah , or Ju - Ju man , is set apart at a very early age and care- fully trained in the knowledge of every herb which may be used to kill or ...
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... means to do them . He can only reckon on so much , and must make it go as far as he can . His proj- ects are tentative , and he is often obliged to withdraw from much for want of a little . He is not really his own master , but serves a ...
... means to do them . He can only reckon on so much , and must make it go as far as he can . His proj- ects are tentative , and he is often obliged to withdraw from much for want of a little . He is not really his own master , but serves a ...
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... means rich in memoirs , and the most stirring times have not called forth the most vivid description of their incidents . There is no brilliant biography of Oliver Cromwell , for in- stance , by a contemporary . We have to piece ...
... means rich in memoirs , and the most stirring times have not called forth the most vivid description of their incidents . There is no brilliant biography of Oliver Cromwell , for in- stance , by a contemporary . We have to piece ...
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... means he had been induced to write the song . " Who would have thought , " he added , " that in obeying his request ... means that your young lady wants to get rid of Chang , and the rhyming word means that he is ' not ' worthy to be ...
... means he had been induced to write the song . " Who would have thought , " he added , " that in obeying his request ... means that your young lady wants to get rid of Chang , and the rhyming word means that he is ' not ' worthy to be ...
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Page 283 - When the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.
Page 293 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too...
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Page 291 - To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Page 291 - IN a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them, With a sleety whistle through them; Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime.
Page 269 - Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and afterwards that which is spiritual.
Page 542 - Corydon would kiss her then,. She said, maids must kiss no men, Till they did for good and all ; Then she made the shepherd- call • All the heavens to witness truth Never loved a truer youth. Thus with many a pretty oath, Yea and nay, and faith and troth, Such as...
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Page 227 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 93 - Hebrew, and by that means are not understood once in a twelvemonth. In the poetical quarter, I found there were poets who had no monuments, and monuments which had no poets.