New Quarterly Review; Or, Home, Foreign and Colonial Journal, Volume 81847 |
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... light , but the muscle is finely developed in the superior joint of the arm , which is probably owing to their constant use of it in throwing the spear . Some tribes are entirely naked , while others wear girdles of skin and leaves ...
... light , but the muscle is finely developed in the superior joint of the arm , which is probably owing to their constant use of it in throwing the spear . Some tribes are entirely naked , while others wear girdles of skin and leaves ...
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... light the morning following , once more to revel in scenes where all was new . How amply is the explorer repaid by such sights for all his toils ! To ascend a hill , and say you are the first civilized man that has ever trod on this ...
... light the morning following , once more to revel in scenes where all was new . How amply is the explorer repaid by such sights for all his toils ! To ascend a hill , and say you are the first civilized man that has ever trod on this ...
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... light , clear , brown com- plexions , delicate features , and inexpressibly graceful figures . " With syren attractions such as these , -with a land rich with the profuse bounties of nature in sight , —with a lovely and lux- urious ...
... light , clear , brown com- plexions , delicate features , and inexpressibly graceful figures . " With syren attractions such as these , -with a land rich with the profuse bounties of nature in sight , —with a lovely and lux- urious ...
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... light we could just discern the savage countenances around us , gleaming with wild curiosity and wonder ; the naked forms and tatooed limbs of the brawny warriors , with here and there the slighter figures of young girls , all engaged ...
... light we could just discern the savage countenances around us , gleaming with wild curiosity and wonder ; the naked forms and tatooed limbs of the brawny warriors , with here and there the slighter figures of young girls , all engaged ...
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... light of a native taper showed me his countenance , pale with trepidation at this fatal question . I paused for a second , and I know not by what impulse it was that I answered Typee . ' The piece of dusky statuary nodded in approval ...
... light of a native taper showed me his countenance , pale with trepidation at this fatal question . I paused for a second , and I know not by what impulse it was that I answered Typee . ' The piece of dusky statuary nodded in approval ...
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Page 195 - He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday!
Page 191 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 195 - How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth...
Page 447 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 195 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 193 - And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; So he shall open, and none shall shut; And he shall shut, and none shall open.
Page 218 - Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement, but I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Page 371 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 20 - COURAGE!' he said, and pointed toward the land, 'This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.' In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 194 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...