The SavageT.S. Manning, 1810 - 312 pages |
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Page 15
... continually occupied with the millhorse round of domestic drudgery ? Not only the memory , but every faculty we possess , is improved by exercise : how then can his mind be en- lightened , who is the mere creature of habit , unaccus ...
... continually occupied with the millhorse round of domestic drudgery ? Not only the memory , but every faculty we possess , is improved by exercise : how then can his mind be en- lightened , who is the mere creature of habit , unaccus ...
Page 16
... continual drudgery destroys the harmony of his shape , and the dignity of his motion . The elasticity of his limbs is destroyed , and he degene- rates into a mere beast of burden . His visage becomes the very picture of stupidity and ...
... continual drudgery destroys the harmony of his shape , and the dignity of his motion . The elasticity of his limbs is destroyed , and he degene- rates into a mere beast of burden . His visage becomes the very picture of stupidity and ...
Page 30
... continually over the mountain : some contem- plate their appearance with calmness , but others view them with horror and dismay . philosopher , who sat , with the utmost composure ,, on the point of a rock , and viewed the 30 THE SAVAGE .
... continually over the mountain : some contem- plate their appearance with calmness , but others view them with horror and dismay . philosopher , who sat , with the utmost composure ,, on the point of a rock , and viewed the 30 THE SAVAGE .
Page 50
... continual adulation , and indigent merit must shrink into insignificance , or become the object of ridi- cule and contempt ; where every association of indivi- duals is a school of intrigue and a conspiracy against the species at large ...
... continual adulation , and indigent merit must shrink into insignificance , or become the object of ridi- cule and contempt ; where every association of indivi- duals is a school of intrigue and a conspiracy against the species at large ...
Page 65
... continually for a wretched subsistence , while others enjoy leisure , amusement and pleasure without any exertion of their own . These circumstances havé a natural tendency to sour and imbitter his mind . Envy and malignity take up ...
... continually for a wretched subsistence , while others enjoy leisure , amusement and pleasure without any exertion of their own . These circumstances havé a natural tendency to sour and imbitter his mind . Envy and malignity take up ...
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Page 289 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 78 - There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men that were of old, men of renown.
Page 10 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 156 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Page 202 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 225 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 301 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Beth day and night.
Page 217 - For pronunciation the best general rule is, to consider those as the most elegant speakers who deviate least from the written words.