The Living Age, Volume 17Littell, Son and Company, 1848 |
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... hand a single book upon his much - loved art . This only proves the truth of the old adage that " practice is better than precept " —a saying which we don't here quote as anything very original , but rather as being peculiarly appli ...
... hand a single book upon his much - loved art . This only proves the truth of the old adage that " practice is better than precept " —a saying which we don't here quote as anything very original , but rather as being peculiarly appli ...
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... hand , if a trout is planted in a spring well , al- though it be fed , even by the fairest hands , by night and day , its increase of dimensions will be slow and slight . This is probably owing to the want of diversity of aliment , and ...
... hand , if a trout is planted in a spring well , al- though it be fed , even by the fairest hands , by night and day , its increase of dimensions will be slow and slight . This is probably owing to the want of diversity of aliment , and ...
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... hand , possessed of these advantages , they have all that is required in order to do them justice ; while breeds or varieties of fish , hitherto pronounced shapeless and impracticable , will then , when trans- ferred to more favored ...
... hand , possessed of these advantages , they have all that is required in order to do them justice ; while breeds or varieties of fish , hitherto pronounced shapeless and impracticable , will then , when trans- ferred to more favored ...
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... hand way ; like that accompanied by judicious remarks ; which , how - made by Lahire , who , going to fight at the ... hands " to wel- ered to get out of the difficulty , by saying the come her ; the majesty of Denmark placed her at At ...
... hand way ; like that accompanied by judicious remarks ; which , how - made by Lahire , who , going to fight at the ... hands " to wel- ered to get out of the difficulty , by saying the come her ; the majesty of Denmark placed her at At ...
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... hand . her half ports up , and guns loaded to the muzzle , awaiting , as if by instruction , for the discharge of death . The platform admitted one of the steamer's the gun from the barge to follow up the work of guns to look into the ...
... hand . her half ports up , and guns loaded to the muzzle , awaiting , as if by instruction , for the discharge of death . The platform admitted one of the steamer's the gun from the barge to follow up the work of guns to look into 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.