The SavageT.S. Manning, 1810 - 312 pages |
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... labor and with great difficulty . These philosophers have thought pro- per to bring up truth from the shades ; but a much more numerous class has deduced its origin from above . Was it the angel Gabriel that brought down the leaves ' of ...
... labor and with great difficulty . These philosophers have thought pro- per to bring up truth from the shades ; but a much more numerous class has deduced its origin from above . Was it the angel Gabriel that brought down the leaves ' of ...
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... labor and fatigue . There may be such a thing as the philoso- pher's stone - as a universal dissolvent - as the elixir of immortality ; but the discovery would be productive of the most serious consequences in the great economy of ...
... labor and fatigue . There may be such a thing as the philoso- pher's stone - as a universal dissolvent - as the elixir of immortality ; but the discovery would be productive of the most serious consequences in the great economy of ...
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... labor . Does civilization then consist in ro- bustness of body , or brawniness of limbs ? He may be strong in his youth , but continual drudgery destroys the harmony of his shape , and the dignity of his motion . The elasticity of his ...
... labor . Does civilization then consist in ro- bustness of body , or brawniness of limbs ? He may be strong in his youth , but continual drudgery destroys the harmony of his shape , and the dignity of his motion . The elasticity of his ...
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... labor . He is now a rich man ; but the finer feelings and nobler sentiments of his mind are absolutely eradicated : that generous dis- regard of self , and that enthusiasm in the cause of vir tue have disappeared . A fortune is not to ...
... labor . He is now a rich man ; but the finer feelings and nobler sentiments of his mind are absolutely eradicated : that generous dis- regard of self , and that enthusiasm in the cause of vir tue have disappeared . A fortune is not to ...
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... labor of others . But how then , we inquired with amazement , did Polydore gain this ascendency over others ? How did he compel his fellows to cultivate his fields , or labor in his ditches ? Polydore did not compel them they were ...
... labor of others . But how then , we inquired with amazement , did Polydore gain this ascendency over others ? How did he compel his fellows to cultivate his fields , or labor in his ditches ? Polydore did not compel them they were ...
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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.