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... course others may take ; but , as for me , give me liberty or give me death . My sentence is for open war : of wiles More unexpert , I boast not ; then let those Contrive who need , or when they need - not now , For , while they sit ...
... course others may take ; but , as for me , give me liberty or give me death . My sentence is for open war : of wiles More unexpert , I boast not ; then let those Contrive who need , or when they need - not now , For , while they sit ...
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... courses into circular orbits such a number of plan- ets , some of them more than a thousand times larger than the earth . Were a ship of war under full sail , we can easily imagine what a force it would require to turn her from her course ...
... courses into circular orbits such a number of plan- ets , some of them more than a thousand times larger than the earth . Were a ship of war under full sail , we can easily imagine what a force it would require to turn her from her course ...
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... course , and bends them into a circular orbit round himself , though they are all many millions of times more ponderous than the ship , and are moving many thousand times more swiftly . Spell and pronounce : — stupendous , achieved ...
... course , and bends them into a circular orbit round himself , though they are all many millions of times more ponderous than the ship , and are moving many thousand times more swiftly . Spell and pronounce : — stupendous , achieved ...
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... course of the river for a time is now smooth and rapid . The bed through which it flows spreads out to almost double its breadth above the fall , then suddenly contracting to a width of about one hundred and fifty feet , it piles the ...
... course of the river for a time is now smooth and rapid . The bed through which it flows spreads out to almost double its breadth above the fall , then suddenly contracting to a width of about one hundred and fifty feet , it piles the ...
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... course , you are sufficiently well acquainted with the topography of New York City to be aware that it is situated on a long , narrow island between the Hudson and East rivers ; the lower end of the island terminating in a point washed ...
... course , you are sufficiently well acquainted with the topography of New York City to be aware that it is situated on a long , narrow island between the Hudson and East rivers ; the lower end of the island terminating in a point washed ...
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Page 280 - I remember, I remember I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day ; But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away. I remember, I remember...
Page 465 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me...
Page 97 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 212 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! But the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
Page 360 - ... herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us ; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in...
Page 344 - How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour: — The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 135 - Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran, — Over the brink of it, Picture it —think of it, Dissolute Man ! Lave in it, drink of it, Then, if you can ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, — kindly, — Smooth, and compose them ; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly ! Dreadfully staring Thro' muddy impurity, As when with the daring Last look...
Page 98 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 99 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone 'o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush!
Page 349 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...