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... nature and properties , or else to be tossed about here and there , in places and directions and amongst people and for purposes , neither creditable nor congenial to his feelings . That your Petitioner considers that we are now fallen ...
... nature and properties , or else to be tossed about here and there , in places and directions and amongst people and for purposes , neither creditable nor congenial to his feelings . That your Petitioner considers that we are now fallen ...
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... nature once get possession of the ignorant , they are not easily removed . Even Trysail , though experienced in the arts of those who trifle with the revenue laws , was much inclined to believe that this was no vulgar case of floating ...
... nature once get possession of the ignorant , they are not easily removed . Even Trysail , though experienced in the arts of those who trifle with the revenue laws , was much inclined to believe that this was no vulgar case of floating ...
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... nature strives with death ; When life exerts her utmost power , And , struggling , gasps for breath : But never once one murmuring word , To ' scape thy lips was ever heard . Thy mother raised thy dying head With all a mother's care ...
... nature strives with death ; When life exerts her utmost power , And , struggling , gasps for breath : But never once one murmuring word , To ' scape thy lips was ever heard . Thy mother raised thy dying head With all a mother's care ...
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... nature , that withdrew their attention from the common concerns of life , and induced them to seek in the improvement of the mind the most elevated enjoyments of which man is destined to be the partaker . The philosopher Anaxagoras , a ...
... nature , that withdrew their attention from the common concerns of life , and induced them to seek in the improvement of the mind the most elevated enjoyments of which man is destined to be the partaker . The philosopher Anaxagoras , a ...
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... nature , it refines the affections and elevates the heart . Let it not be understood that we consider a prudent attention to the ordinary business of life , incompatible with a taste for useful knowledge , or an obstacle to the ...
... nature , it refines the affections and elevates the heart . Let it not be understood that we consider a prudent attention to the ordinary business of life , incompatible with a taste for useful knowledge , or an obstacle to the ...
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Страница 183 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Страница 213 - you can do nothing for me." All that could be done was to fan him with paper, and frequently to give him lemonade to alleviate his intense thirst. He was in great pain, and expressed much anxiety for the event of the action, which now began to declare itself. As often as a ship struck, the crew of the Victory...
Страница 102 - For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of oil olive and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Страница 214 - Hardy knelt down and kissed his cheek: and Nelson said, " Now I am satisfied. Thank God, I have done my duty!
Страница 214 - Captain Hardy, some fifty minutes after he had left the cockpit, returned ; and, again taking the hand of his dying friend and commander, congratulated him on having gained a complete victory. How many of the enemy were taken he did not know, as it was impossible to perceive them distinctly ; but fourteen or fifteen at least. " That's well, cried Nelson,
Страница 212 - ' I hope not," cried Hardy. "Yes," he replied, "my backbone is shot through." Yet even now, not for a moment losing his presence of mind, he observed, as they were carrying him down the ladder, that the...
Страница 92 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Страница 126 - Talent is power; tact is skill. Talent is weight ; tact is momentum. Talent knows what to do; tact knows how to do it. Talent makes a man respectable ; tact will make him respected. Talent is wealth ; tact is ready money.
Страница 212 - It was soon perceived, upon examination, that the wound was mortal. This, however, was concealed from all except Captain Hardy, the chaplain, and the medical attendants. He himself being certain, from the sensation in his back, and the gush of blood he felt momently within his breast, that no human care could avail him, insisted that the surgeon should leave him, and attend to those to whom he might be useful...
Страница 212 - Redoutable, supposing that she had struck, because her great guns were silent; for, as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact. From this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A ball fired from her...