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... means or oppor- tunities of vigorous defence , but sus- tained by an indomitable courage , great resource of invention , and an enthusias- tic love of country , infinitely more for- midable even than their courage and their skill , the ...
... means or oppor- tunities of vigorous defence , but sus- tained by an indomitable courage , great resource of invention , and an enthusias- tic love of country , infinitely more for- midable even than their courage and their skill , the ...
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... means afforded , for a last desperate resistance . Lannes , who was the first to enter the assaulted village , detached an officer in command of two battalions , to drive the insurgents from their position . The officer , equally ...
... means afforded , for a last desperate resistance . Lannes , who was the first to enter the assaulted village , detached an officer in command of two battalions , to drive the insurgents from their position . The officer , equally ...
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... means : reading and writing not being in general use amongst these tribes , natural talent dies with its possessor ; neither are the benefits derived from it transmissible to others . The second cause is a stratagem in use with allied ...
... means : reading and writing not being in general use amongst these tribes , natural talent dies with its possessor ; neither are the benefits derived from it transmissible to others . The second cause is a stratagem in use with allied ...
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... means to save himself from the mockery of the court at being outdone in this contest , happened to overhear the jougleur sing- ing . He went to his door and listened , and succeeded in retaining the words and the air . On the day ...
... means to save himself from the mockery of the court at being outdone in this contest , happened to overhear the jougleur sing- ing . He went to his door and listened , and succeeded in retaining the words and the air . On the day ...
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... means calculated to restore his humility . What an eventful mission ! To become the creator of a new race of beings , of a new order of society ! What ! by a single word , a breath , a mere will , to give movement and life to matter ...
... means calculated to restore his humility . What an eventful mission ! To become the creator of a new race of beings , of a new order of society ! What ! by a single word , a breath , a mere will , to give movement and life to matter ...
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Page 238 - I've paced much this weary, mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare : — If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale...
Page 356 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Page 155 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 237 - Tis my desire to be alone : Ne'er well but when my thoughts and I Do domineer in privacy. No gem, no treasure like to this, 'Tis my delight, my crown, my bliss. All my joys to this are folly : Nought so sweet as melancholy...
Page 247 - THERE is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, — They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.
Page 54 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Page 245 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread.
Page 331 - No — he was a man who had a real, simple, and sincere love for the birds of the air, the beasts of the field...
Page 157 - ... as being out of countenance; his beard was very thin: his tongue too large for his mouth, which ever made him speak full in the mouth, and made him drink very uncomely, as if eating his drink, which came out into the cup of each side of his mouth; his skin was as soft as taffeta sarsnet, which felt so, because he never washed his hands, only rubbed his fingers ends slightly with the wet end of a napkin.