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... young wife , that weeping gare Her first - born to the earth , That the pale race , who waste us now , Among their bones should guide the plough . The beautiful original picture that graces this volume as a Frontispiece , was designed ...
... young wife , that weeping gare Her first - born to the earth , That the pale race , who waste us now , Among their bones should guide the plough . The beautiful original picture that graces this volume as a Frontispiece , was designed ...
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... Young Mother . - Sprague License Laws . - Rev . J. Pierpont 143 May.-J. G. Percival 143 Mountain Scene in Virginia 96 Musing Boy -- N . P. Willis Niagara Falls 64 Saturday Evening . - Bulwer Scene of Misery 168 Ship 120 234 Zoological ...
... Young Mother . - Sprague License Laws . - Rev . J. Pierpont 143 May.-J. G. Percival 143 Mountain Scene in Virginia 96 Musing Boy -- N . P. Willis Niagara Falls 64 Saturday Evening . - Bulwer Scene of Misery 168 Ship 120 234 Zoological ...
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... young cedars of a smaller size were abundant . The view from hence , on looking west- ward , commands an unbounded horizon at sea , with the whole of the coast from Ras - el - Shukkah to the extreme northern point of land seen from ...
... young cedars of a smaller size were abundant . The view from hence , on looking west- ward , commands an unbounded horizon at sea , with the whole of the coast from Ras - el - Shukkah to the extreme northern point of land seen from ...
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... young man with a radiated head , his pallium thrown over his left arm . Sol had four horses , to wheel his flaming car through the vaulted skies . Fulgentius says , the names of these horses are , Erythreus or the Red , Acteon or the ...
... young man with a radiated head , his pallium thrown over his left arm . Sol had four horses , to wheel his flaming car through the vaulted skies . Fulgentius says , the names of these horses are , Erythreus or the Red , Acteon or the ...
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... young ; when she is in that condition the male never conjoins with her . They only bring forth a young one , which has teeth as soon as brought forth ; he is then larger than a boar ; yet his tusks are not visible , they appear soon ...
... young ; when she is in that condition the male never conjoins with her . They only bring forth a young one , which has teeth as soon as brought forth ; he is then larger than a boar ; yet his tusks are not visible , they appear soon ...
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Page 215 - Reading maketh. a full man: conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 239 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, That lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, A beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves ; The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, With the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, But the cold November rain Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, The lovely ones again.
Page 97 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Page 89 - And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Page 97 - But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Page 9 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 239 - Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen. And now when comes the calm mild day — as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them...
Page 64 - STRANGER, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature.
Page 26 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 215 - ... the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers