The SavageT.S. Manning, 1810 - 312 pages |
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... earth , to a dark place , where dwell the wicked spirits . My child , your mind is fatigued as well as your body . You must go to rest . Tomorrow you shall see Quibo . ” He took me in his arms and bore me to my couch ; he wiped away the ...
... earth , to a dark place , where dwell the wicked spirits . My child , your mind is fatigued as well as your body . You must go to rest . Tomorrow you shall see Quibo . ” He took me in his arms and bore me to my couch ; he wiped away the ...
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... earth . They said that truth was at the bottom of a well , probably to signify that it was acquired by immense labor and with great difficulty . These philosophers have thought pro- per to bring up truth from the shades ; but a much ...
... earth . They said that truth was at the bottom of a well , probably to signify that it was acquired by immense labor and with great difficulty . These philosophers have thought pro- per to bring up truth from the shades ; but a much ...
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... earth , and hades swarm- ed with innumerable divinities . All the virtues and vices . of humanity , and all the operations of nature , were un-- der the direction . of superintending deities : and these gods being unaccountably prolific ...
... earth , and hades swarm- ed with innumerable divinities . All the virtues and vices . of humanity , and all the operations of nature , were un-- der the direction . of superintending deities : and these gods being unaccountably prolific ...
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... earth , he is yclept The Mammon of unrighteous- Quid non mortalia pectora cogis , ness . Auri sacra fames ? Longing after immortality . The desire of being remembered when we are no more is deeply implanted in the human mind . We all ...
... earth , he is yclept The Mammon of unrighteous- Quid non mortalia pectora cogis , ness . Auri sacra fames ? Longing after immortality . The desire of being remembered when we are no more is deeply implanted in the human mind . We all ...
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... earth , and offers his back to the rider . His fect become as the feet of a camel , and his hands rough and scaly as the cone that drops from the top of the pine tree . The lower ranks of those who reside in cities , being more confined ...
... earth , and offers his back to the rider . His fect become as the feet of a camel , and his hands rough and scaly as the cone that drops from the top of the pine tree . The lower ranks of those who reside in cities , being more confined ...
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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.