The SavageT.S. Manning, 1810 - 312 pages |
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Page 9
... of Samson , the wars of the giants , the building of pyramids , the turning aside of ri- vers , and removing mountains ? What are such trifles as these when compared with the stupendous operations of the god THE SAVAGE . 9.
... of Samson , the wars of the giants , the building of pyramids , the turning aside of ri- vers , and removing mountains ? What are such trifles as these when compared with the stupendous operations of the god THE SAVAGE . 9.
Page 14
... turns round the hill . We guide our course through the boundless wilderness , by the sun , moon , and stars , and even by the appearance of the trees of the forest . We perform the most incredi- ble journeys without fatigue , crossing ...
... turns round the hill . We guide our course through the boundless wilderness , by the sun , moon , and stars , and even by the appearance of the trees of the forest . We perform the most incredi- ble journeys without fatigue , crossing ...
Page 15
... turn itself to such a variety of vocations , and accommodate itself to such a multitude of circumstances , must it not become infinitely superior to that sluggish existence , whose ideas are continually occupied with the millhorse round ...
... turn itself to such a variety of vocations , and accommodate itself to such a multitude of circumstances , must it not become infinitely superior to that sluggish existence , whose ideas are continually occupied with the millhorse round ...
Page 55
... turn to immediate profit , and slanderous aspersions against their neighbors . Now as we are dis- posed to gratify neither of these propensities we have very faint hopes indeed that our Savage will become po- pular . But , if it be ...
... turn to immediate profit , and slanderous aspersions against their neighbors . Now as we are dis- posed to gratify neither of these propensities we have very faint hopes indeed that our Savage will become po- pular . But , if it be ...
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... turn neither to the right hand nor to the left without sullying the purity of his virtue . If he should resent an injury , he is ungrateful ; if he submit in silence , it is imputed to baseness and cowardice of spirit . And every thing ...
... turn neither to the right hand nor to the left without sullying the purity of his virtue . If he should resent an injury , he is ungrateful ; if he submit in silence , it is imputed to baseness and cowardice of spirit . And every thing ...
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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.