The Living Age, Volume 17Littell, Son and Company, 1848 |
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... becomes a maniac . We never chanced to try the experiment either on ourselves or others , and would certainly , in the ... become numerous , as is the case in many of our lochs , where the feeding grounds are both extensive and of good ...
... becomes a maniac . We never chanced to try the experiment either on ourselves or others , and would certainly , in the ... become numerous , as is the case in many of our lochs , where the feeding grounds are both extensive and of good ...
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... become . One might as soon expect to find jolly red - faced rollicking paupers , weighing fifteen stone and upwards , in a poors ' house , as well - conditioned fish in such ill - supplied waters . It is thus that many of our Highland ...
... become . One might as soon expect to find jolly red - faced rollicking paupers , weighing fifteen stone and upwards , in a poors ' house , as well - conditioned fish in such ill - supplied waters . It is thus that many of our Highland ...
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... become more encumber- ing than before , because they have not the char- acter of the doubts of her early youth , or her early Quakerism . The foreign tours are attractive from the reciprocal operation of the foreign view of Elizabeth ...
... become more encumber- ing than before , because they have not the char- acter of the doubts of her early youth , or her early Quakerism . The foreign tours are attractive from the reciprocal operation of the foreign view of Elizabeth ...
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... become clever manipulators , without comprehen- in Paris , now three quarters of a century ago , have sive systematic views ; and the technical language never been surpassed in this respect . The dark- of physiology or chemistry becomes ...
... become clever manipulators , without comprehen- in Paris , now three quarters of a century ago , have sive systematic views ; and the technical language never been surpassed in this respect . The dark- of physiology or chemistry becomes ...
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... become settled , and they at two dollars Sooloo , we could not make a com- plant for and send to your market , the same scanti- parison , as those from Celebes passed through ness of tonnage must prevail . Dutch channels ; but , the ...
... become settled , and they at two dollars Sooloo , we could not make a com- plant for and send to your market , the same scanti- parison , as those from Celebes passed through ness of tonnage must prevail . Dutch channels ; but , the ...
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Page 274 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 224 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration...
Page 340 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks...
Page 146 - Brought in the olden time from France, and since, as an heir-loom, Handed down from mother to child, through long generations. But a celestial brightness — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Page 88 - The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Page 245 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Page 146 - Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended. Each succeeding year stole something away from her beauty, Leaving behind it, broader and deeper, the gloom and the shadow. Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray o'er her forehead, Dawn of another life, that broke o'er her eavthly horizon, As in the eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning.
Page 294 - The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom.
Page 396 - The two natures blended beautifully together, for the turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, and for subduing their reckless spirits to that service, which alone could set them free.
Page 128 - When it raineth, it is his penthouse; when it bloweth, it is his tent; when it freezeth, it is his tabernacle. In summer he can wear it loose; in winter he can wrap it close; at all times he can use it; never heavy, never cumbersome.