De La Salle Monthly: A Catholic Magazine, Volumes 3-4De La Salle Catholic Association, 1871 |
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... feet wide - and the relief too long withheld , that she had blind , and squalid , and miserable court become desperate and despairing . She was always overflowed with noxious thought that no human heart in this filth and slush . The ...
... feet wide - and the relief too long withheld , that she had blind , and squalid , and miserable court become desperate and despairing . She was always overflowed with noxious thought that no human heart in this filth and slush . The ...
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... feet square , pain , he snatched up a knife from the dark , dirty and miserable , with no fire , table , and cut me with it in the throat , no bed , but a piece of sacking , no sheets and three times in the head ; and he then nor ...
... feet square , pain , he snatched up a knife from the dark , dirty and miserable , with no fire , table , and cut me with it in the throat , no bed , but a piece of sacking , no sheets and three times in the head ; and he then nor ...
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... feet to look for muscles on the rocks , or far away on the sand at low tide to dig for bait for the line . She always said she " Well , sir , it was one day in Septem- never would have no one but him . But ber , as it might be now . We ...
... feet to look for muscles on the rocks , or far away on the sand at low tide to dig for bait for the line . She always said she " Well , sir , it was one day in Septem- never would have no one but him . But ber , as it might be now . We ...
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... feet , and having a di- explored are about forty miles long . ameter of 1 to 10 feet . The top of these Throughout their whole extent they pillars is covered by thousands of needle- present a most magnificent sight to the shaped ...
... feet , and having a di- explored are about forty miles long . ameter of 1 to 10 feet . The top of these Throughout their whole extent they pillars is covered by thousands of needle- present a most magnificent sight to the shaped ...
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... feet from under him and threw him upon the ground . Eulogius was terrified ; but when the noise was over , and the dust had cleared away , he rose and saw lying at his feet a huge lump of pure shining gold . He was rich , and that ...
... feet from under him and threw him upon the ground . Eulogius was terrified ; but when the noise was over , and the dust had cleared away , he rose and saw lying at his feet a huge lump of pure shining gold . He was rich , and that ...
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Page 33 - New-year blithe and bold, my friend, Comes up to take his own. How hard he breathes ! over the snow I heard just now the crowing cock. The shadows flicker to and fro : The cricket chirps : the light burns low : 'Tis nearly twelve o'clock. Shake hands, before you die. Old year, we'll dearly rue for you : What is it we can do for you ? Speak out before you die.
Page 137 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Page 32 - He was full of joke and jest; But all his merry quips are o'er: To see him die, across the waste His son and heir doth ride posthaste ; But he'll be dead before.
Page 58 - And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows. On the pallet before her was stretched the form of an old man. Long, and thin...
Page 32 - em away. Old year, you must not go ; So long as you have been with us, Such joy as you have seen with us, Old year, you shall not go.
Page 31 - Than they who clamor loudest at the door. Therefore the law decrees that as this steed Served you in youth, henceforth you shall take heed To comfort his old age, and to provide Shelter in stall, and food and field beside.
Page 161 - Calvert deserves to be ranked among the most wise and benevolent lawgivers of all ages. He was the first in the history of the Christian world to seek for religious security and peace by the practice of justice, and not by the exercise of power...
Page 30 - The Re Giovanni, now unknown to fame, So many monarchs since have borne the name, Had a great bell hung in the market-place Beneath a roof, projecting some small space, By way of shelter from the sun and rain. Then rode he through the streets with all his train, And, with the blast of trumpets loud and long, Made proclamation, that whenever wrong Was done to any man, he should but ring The great bell in the square, and he, the king, 1 From Tales of a Wayside Inn.
Page 137 - We have not wings, we cannot soar ; But we have feet to scale and climb By slow degrees, by more and more, The cloudy summits of our time. The mighty pyramids of stone That wedge-like cleave the desert airs, When nearer seen, and better known, Are but gigantic flights of stairs.
Page 32 - And though his foes speak ill of him, He was a friend to me. Old Year, you shall not die ; We did so laugh and cry with you. I've half a mind to die with you, Old Year, if you must die.