Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's MagazineA. Dowling, 1857 - 672 Seiten |
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... kind of educational contriv- ances , yet it is impossible to deny the very powerful influence which circum- stances exert , over the development even of the strongest natures , and most original minds . If nature was kind to Washington ...
... kind of educational contriv- ances , yet it is impossible to deny the very powerful influence which circum- stances exert , over the development even of the strongest natures , and most original minds . If nature was kind to Washington ...
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... kind that don't get up an interest in such things , because ye don't know what they are . Yer uncle does ! Somebody aint got no time , nor no cash for everybody that wants it . Ye see ? " Yes . The Dark Student does see , not exactly ...
... kind that don't get up an interest in such things , because ye don't know what they are . Yer uncle does ! Somebody aint got no time , nor no cash for everybody that wants it . Ye see ? " Yes . The Dark Student does see , not exactly ...
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... kind of fuel , devised a systematic mode of making these treasures permanently available . Now , the upper turf is , du- ring the dry season , cut out into large square pieces , that serve mainly to cover the lowly huts , which the ...
... kind of fuel , devised a systematic mode of making these treasures permanently available . Now , the upper turf is , du- ring the dry season , cut out into large square pieces , that serve mainly to cover the lowly huts , which the ...
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... kind , and , afterwards , a dish fit for the best of tables . The laveret , or gwiniad , of the Scotch lakes is here replaced by several species of the same family , known as white - fish , ( among which is the mis - named " Ot- sego ...
... kind , and , afterwards , a dish fit for the best of tables . The laveret , or gwiniad , of the Scotch lakes is here replaced by several species of the same family , known as white - fish , ( among which is the mis - named " Ot- sego ...
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... kind of colored sash about his waist , and wore a large French chapeau . He was as calm as death . A preter- natural paleness sat on his visage . His lips were iron , and his face was marble . Three with me in this boat , " cried he ...
... kind of colored sash about his waist , and wore a large French chapeau . He was as calm as death . A preter- natural paleness sat on his visage . His lips were iron , and his face was marble . Three with me in this boat , " cried he ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 202 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Seite 167 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Seite 49 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Seite 506 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim...
Seite 524 - Here the free spirit of mankind at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race...
Seite 448 - I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Seite 8 - At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.
Seite 249 - Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face.
Seite 319 - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Seite 472 - Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason. But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct...