Prose,Abraham Small. William Brown, printer, 1824 |
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... thought became embodied, and passed in vision before him. Rapt into by-gone times, he saw a goose's egg lying in the middle of a highway, on which multitudes were travelling; indeed it was the highway to and through all nations. A ...
... thought became embodied, and passed in vision before him. Rapt into by-gone times, he saw a goose's egg lying in the middle of a highway, on which multitudes were travelling; indeed it was the highway to and through all nations. A ...
Page 18
... thought to come into it? He would not be said nay, and when I pleaded that mine was not a skull for an exhibition, he was pleased to say, " It is enough for me that it is Mr. * * * * *'s." This of course put me to silence. However, as ...
... thought to come into it? He would not be said nay, and when I pleaded that mine was not a skull for an exhibition, he was pleased to say, " It is enough for me that it is Mr. * * * * *'s." This of course put me to silence. However, as ...
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... thought of mine, for want of courage to speak it; — and, by one of those unmannerly evasions, at which I have acquired a little dexterity, from being necessitated to practise them, when a certain constitutional shyness, inveterate and ...
... thought of mine, for want of courage to speak it; — and, by one of those unmannerly evasions, at which I have acquired a little dexterity, from being necessitated to practise them, when a certain constitutional shyness, inveterate and ...
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... thought, — thought that retires within itself in the presence of magnificent objects, and scarcely assimilates with language while it is in pro cess ; in this respect differing from those trains of superficial ideas and swallow-winged ...
... thought, — thought that retires within itself in the presence of magnificent objects, and scarcely assimilates with language while it is in pro cess ; in this respect differing from those trains of superficial ideas and swallow-winged ...
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... thoughts that came into my mind, — and whoever shall happen to see these pages will no doubt say, that it was a bright one, and might have been a sunbeam in the shape of a thought, — was — to write a journal of my time, to see how ...
... thoughts that came into my mind, — and whoever shall happen to see these pages will no doubt say, that it was a bright one, and might have been a sunbeam in the shape of a thought, — was — to write a journal of my time, to see how ...
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