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... thousand years has precipitated itself spas- modically on Europe , and , save in one in- stance , has invariably been beaten back . A as if they had been portions of another planet . The great Asiatic invasion of Ti- mour passed away ...
... thousand years has precipitated itself spas- modically on Europe , and , save in one in- stance , has invariably been beaten back . A as if they had been portions of another planet . The great Asiatic invasion of Ti- mour passed away ...
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... thousand miles of canal in APPLICATION OF SOLUBLE GLASS . - It is STEAM NAVIGATION ON ENGLISH CANALS . found that the richer soluble glass is in silica , It is rather singular that steam navigation on the less fusible it is ; and to ...
... thousand miles of canal in APPLICATION OF SOLUBLE GLASS . - It is STEAM NAVIGATION ON ENGLISH CANALS . found that the richer soluble glass is in silica , It is rather singular that steam navigation on the less fusible it is ; and to ...
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... thousand peasants , must go down , and be replaced by the moneyed class already rising in the scale . They can be spared . They have added noth- ing to European society beyond a somewhat bizarre magnificence , and in Russia their ...
... thousand peasants , must go down , and be replaced by the moneyed class already rising in the scale . They can be spared . They have added noth- ing to European society beyond a somewhat bizarre magnificence , and in Russia their ...
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... thousand square miles . It not so , to keep down a vast and populous would , therefore , make thirteen Sovereign dependency , anxious to revolt , on the other States , averaging in area thirteen States of side of the Atlantic , is a ...
... thousand square miles . It not so , to keep down a vast and populous would , therefore , make thirteen Sovereign dependency , anxious to revolt , on the other States , averaging in area thirteen States of side of the Atlantic , is a ...
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... thousands of tons of good fuel which are now smoked off to waste in the air ; we want a simple and effectual method of ... thousand feet of gas con- sumed , the oppressiveness complained of is not to be wondered at , nor that gilding and ...
... thousands of tons of good fuel which are now smoked off to waste in the air ; we want a simple and effectual method of ... thousand feet of gas con- sumed , the oppressiveness complained of is not to be wondered at , nor that gilding and ...
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Page 434 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot, the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed; No costly lord, the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal: But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
Page 524 - The place of justice is a hallowed place; and therefore not only the Bench, but the foot pace and precincts and purprise thereof ought to be preserved without scandal and corruption.
Page 196 - Gallow .the very wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves : since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never Remember to have heard : man's nature cannot carry The affliction nor the fear.
Page 292 - Whose color was extremely hectic ; Her grandmother for many a year Had fed the parish with her bounty ; Her second cousin was a peer, And Lord-Lieutenant of the county.
Page 86 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 69 - And Paul said; I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Page 187 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 292 - Dark was her hair, her hand was white; Her voice was exquisitely tender; Her eyes were full of liquid light; I never saw a waist so slender; Her every look, her every smile, Shot right and left a score of arrows; I thought 'twas Venus from her isle, And wondered where she'd left her sparrows.
Page 179 - And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Page 196 - Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire ; and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Alack, alack! 'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all.