The SavageT.S. Manning, 1810 - 312 pages |
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... effects ? Must he die and be forgotten forever ? Or is there any truth in the consolatory invita- tion : " Come unto me , all ye that are weary and heavy- laden , and I will give you rest . " Christians ! Your reli- gion sounds sweetly ...
... effects ? Must he die and be forgotten forever ? Or is there any truth in the consolatory invita- tion : " Come unto me , all ye that are weary and heavy- laden , and I will give you rest . " Christians ! Your reli- gion sounds sweetly ...
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... finely polished and highly ci- vilized young christian will observe , " Damn the old codger : I wish he was in hell , and I had his money . " THE SAVAGE - NO . II . EFFECTS OF CIVILIZATION .12 THE SAVAGE . Old Age. ...
... finely polished and highly ci- vilized young christian will observe , " Damn the old codger : I wish he was in hell , and I had his money . " THE SAVAGE - NO . II . EFFECTS OF CIVILIZATION .12 THE SAVAGE . Old Age. ...
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John Robinson, Piomingo. THE SAVAGE - NO . II . EFFECTS OF CIVILIZATION . A STOICAL indifference to bodily pain is , among sa- vages , one of the first lessons of youth , Fortitude to bear every evil , and resolution to meet every danger ...
John Robinson, Piomingo. THE SAVAGE - NO . II . EFFECTS OF CIVILIZATION . A STOICAL indifference to bodily pain is , among sa- vages , one of the first lessons of youth , Fortitude to bear every evil , and resolution to meet every danger ...
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... EFFECTS OF CIVILIZATION . SHALL your cooks and your waiters , your carters and your ditchers , be accounted equally civilized with your- selves ? Shall they who watch the look , and tremble at the frown , of a superior , be allowed to ...
... EFFECTS OF CIVILIZATION . SHALL your cooks and your waiters , your carters and your ditchers , be accounted equally civilized with your- selves ? Shall they who watch the look , and tremble at the frown , of a superior , be allowed to ...
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... effects to be seen . There will soon be a sufficiency of indigence and poverty of spirit to make servants obsequious , and multiply the number of domestics . Let splendor , refinement , and luxury , triumph ; and we promise that ...
... effects to be seen . There will soon be a sufficiency of indigence and poverty of spirit to make servants obsequious , and multiply the number of domestics . Let splendor , refinement , and luxury , triumph ; and we promise that ...
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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.