Border-land in SymbolsVancouver Columbian, 1913 - 129 pages |
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... asked him how he found the giant com- pared with the account in Numbers . He said it tallied accurately , and the giant was seem- ingly a mile high ; that the facial expression was not that of anger but to the contrary , quite pleasant ...
... asked him how he found the giant com- pared with the account in Numbers . He said it tallied accurately , and the giant was seem- ingly a mile high ; that the facial expression was not that of anger but to the contrary , quite pleasant ...
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... asked the South Am- erican Republics to amend this law , whereby parties might marry under the law by officials of the law , and also declaring the children born to the parties before this marriage as legiti- mate . 26 BORDER - LAND IN ...
... asked the South Am- erican Republics to amend this law , whereby parties might marry under the law by officials of the law , and also declaring the children born to the parties before this marriage as legiti- mate . 26 BORDER - LAND IN ...
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... ures of the Saxons or the pure villanage of the Normans . " When Thoreau was imprisoned because he re- fused to pay some unjust , iniquitous tax , Emer- son visited him in the prison and asked Thoreau why GOOD AND EVIL 3333.
... ures of the Saxons or the pure villanage of the Normans . " When Thoreau was imprisoned because he re- fused to pay some unjust , iniquitous tax , Emer- son visited him in the prison and asked Thoreau why GOOD AND EVIL 3333.
Page 34
... asked the sea for its forgiveness . The seas asked : " Have you been acting badly . " " Yes , " said the whale , " did you not notice me killing people and lashing the sea to а foam ? " " No , " replied the sea , " I did not no- tice ...
... asked the sea for its forgiveness . The seas asked : " Have you been acting badly . " " Yes , " said the whale , " did you not notice me killing people and lashing the sea to а foam ? " " No , " replied the sea , " I did not no- tice ...
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... in the hands of the officers . When the soldiers were guarding the rail- roads in California , some years ago , a striker asked a soldier friend if he would shoot down his friends . The soldier replied , " Ask the GOOD AND EVIL 35.
... in the hands of the officers . When the soldiers were guarding the rail- roads in California , some years ago , a striker asked a soldier friend if he would shoot down his friends . The soldier replied , " Ask the GOOD AND EVIL 35.
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Page 55 - Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
Page 32 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 32 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 56 - And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And behold, there came a voice unto him, and said. What doest thou here, Elijah?
Page 56 - And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake In pieces the rocks before the Lord : but the Lord was not in the wind : and after the wind an earthquake ; but the Lord was not in the earthquake : " And after the earthquake a .fire : but the Lord was not in the fire : and after the fire a still small voice.
Page 73 - And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only selfsufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul.
Page 32 - We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their state free, and we shall awake to the reality instead that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave state.
Page 34 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 7 - Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
Page 117 - Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin ; and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.