The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading, Volume 2W. Stevens, printer, 1853 |
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Page 37
... . " The Sahara is a vast desert , with here and there a verdant spot , occupying the larger space of Northern Africa . It is one of the regions where rain never falls , and in this respect a type THE LEISURE HOUR . 37.
... . " The Sahara is a vast desert , with here and there a verdant spot , occupying the larger space of Northern Africa . It is one of the regions where rain never falls , and in this respect a type THE LEISURE HOUR . 37.
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... respect a type of all others similarly situated . No cloud passes over the sky , to shelter the traveller for an instant from the burning rays of the sun . Spreading across the continent , from the valley of the Nile on the east , to ...
... respect a type of all others similarly situated . No cloud passes over the sky , to shelter the traveller for an instant from the burning rays of the sun . Spreading across the continent , from the valley of the Nile on the east , to ...
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... respect is evidently paid to him ; a train of some hundred and fifty domestics wait upon him , and the Spanish ... respects to the little company which lin- gered round Napoleon at St. Helena , attended Charles . Prominent among these ...
... respect is evidently paid to him ; a train of some hundred and fifty domestics wait upon him , and the Spanish ... respects to the little company which lin- gered round Napoleon at St. Helena , attended Charles . Prominent among these ...
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... respect , not more so than the royal lady who went through this annual talking duty . Next came the Queen - all smiles and gracious- ness , charming every one , knowing every one , telling every one something that caused them to wonder ...
... respect , not more so than the royal lady who went through this annual talking duty . Next came the Queen - all smiles and gracious- ness , charming every one , knowing every one , telling every one something that caused them to wonder ...
Page 53
... respect . You are sceptical of their actual existence till you traverse their streets . They are built on a dead level , and consequently present no points of view . Neither from afar , nor near , neither from without nor within their ...
... respect . You are sceptical of their actual existence till you traverse their streets . They are built on a dead level , and consequently present no points of view . Neither from afar , nor near , neither from without nor within their ...
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Page 189 - There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
Page 323 - A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Page 75 - ... without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Page 75 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 309 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Page 309 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the Commons' House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed.
Page 189 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Page 189 - Heart within, and God o'erhead. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time — Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 309 - I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if, in this hard season, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honour in the world.
Page 309 - I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me are gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors.