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... existence , drones and sluggards and vagabonds of the worst possible sort . These steadfast and infallible efforts of Nature to rid herself of certain decrepit and effete races , which , like the toxodons , the glyptodons , the ...
... existence , drones and sluggards and vagabonds of the worst possible sort . These steadfast and infallible efforts of Nature to rid herself of certain decrepit and effete races , which , like the toxodons , the glyptodons , the ...
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... existence of the sun , than I am that the postulates here advanced are wholly founded in truth . Your reply , and the reasons upon which your own opinions on the subject are based , are awaited with great interest and respect . To the ...
... existence of the sun , than I am that the postulates here advanced are wholly founded in truth . Your reply , and the reasons upon which your own opinions on the subject are based , are awaited with great interest and respect . To the ...
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... existence of a germ in their minds which only wants cultivation . They astonish you with strokes of the most sub- lime oratory ; such as prove their reason and sentiment strong , their imagination glowing and elevated . But never yet ...
... existence of a germ in their minds which only wants cultivation . They astonish you with strokes of the most sub- lime oratory ; such as prove their reason and sentiment strong , their imagination glowing and elevated . But never yet ...
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... existence of a population beyond his own family ; and his build- ing a ' city , ' a considerable collection of habitations . " The characteristic differences of the great divisions of mankind , physical and intellectual , would create ...
... existence of a population beyond his own family ; and his build- ing a ' city , ' a considerable collection of habitations . " The characteristic differences of the great divisions of mankind , physical and intellectual , would create ...
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... existence . It is better for us both , therefore , to be separated . I know that there are free men among you who , even if they could better their condi- tion , are not as much inclined to go out of the country as those who , being ...
... existence . It is better for us both , therefore , to be separated . I know that there are free men among you who , even if they could better their condi- tion , are not as much inclined to go out of the country as those who , being ...
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Page 110 - And immediately I was in the Spirit : and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone : and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Page 93 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 114 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth...
Page 183 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Page 246 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 159 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 158 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand, The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 246 - Bethhoron, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them, unto Azekah, and they died ; they were more which died with hailstones, than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Page 242 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea ; his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.
Page 159 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.