Littell's Living Age, Volume 123Living Age Company Incorporated, 1874 - American periodicals |
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... appeared at the head of a body of troops drive him from the country ; all these and in the midst of his lifeguards in the foul and bitter charges , and a thousand town of Nymegen , surrounded the whole similar ones , were rained almost ...
... appeared at the head of a body of troops drive him from the country ; all these and in the midst of his lifeguards in the foul and bitter charges , and a thousand town of Nymegen , surrounded the whole similar ones , were rained almost ...
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... appeared before his judges was May 1. execution , they humbly beg that it may His sentence was not communicated to be granted them to see and to speak to him till about half - past five on Sunday him for the last time . " Barneveldt was ...
... appeared before his judges was May 1. execution , they humbly beg that it may His sentence was not communicated to be granted them to see and to speak to him till about half - past five on Sunday him for the last time . " Barneveldt was ...
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... appeared flat to the senses , the sun seemed to move while the earth was at rest . We know with what opposition the fact that the earth moves around the sun was received In the sixteenth century , by all classes . How many fully realize ...
... appeared flat to the senses , the sun seemed to move while the earth was at rest . We know with what opposition the fact that the earth moves around the sun was received In the sixteenth century , by all classes . How many fully realize ...
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... appeared to have emerging enters a vaulted chamber filled very defective locks , and sometimes with a substance as clear as crystal . Im - broken doors . Sunt geminæ somni portæ , quarum altera fertur Cornea .. Altera , candenti ...
... appeared to have emerging enters a vaulted chamber filled very defective locks , and sometimes with a substance as clear as crystal . Im - broken doors . Sunt geminæ somni portæ , quarum altera fertur Cornea .. Altera , candenti ...
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... appeared on the brow of the hill . The ridge was so abrupt that she was very near the husband and wife be- fore she became visible . Troy had turned towards the gig to remount , and whilst putting his foot on the step the woman passed ...
... appeared on the brow of the hill . The ridge was so abrupt that she was very near the husband and wife be- fore she became visible . Troy had turned towards the gig to remount , and whilst putting his foot on the step the woman passed ...
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Page 509 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 113 - Love, now a universal birth, From heart to heart is stealing, From earth to man, from man to earth : — It is the hour of feeling. One moment now may give us more Than years of toiling reason : Our minds shall drink at every pore The spirit of the season.
Page 501 - ... religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching on this man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity ; nor I even now would it be easy, even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete ! than to endeavour so to live that Christ would approve our life.
Page 382 - Peace, plenty, love, truth, terror, That were the servants to this chosen infant, Shall then be his , and like a vine grow to him : Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations: J1 he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him.
Page 400 - Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye : There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war...
Page 381 - Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself, So shall she leave her blessedness to one...
Page 501 - The tradition of followers suffices to insert any number of marvels, and may have inserted all the miracles which he is reputed to have wrought. l.ut who among his disciples or among their proselytes was capable of inventing the sayings ascribed to Jesus, or of imagining the life and character revealed in the Gospels ? Certainly not the fishermen of Galilee ; as certainly not St.
Page 359 - tis a bad omen. — Do not weep, my dear Lady; — your tears are too precious to shed for me; — bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn ! — Dearest, kindest, gentlest, and best of women! may health, peace, and happiness, prove your handmaids ! — If I die, cherish the remembrance of me, and forget the follies which you so often condemned, — which my heart, not my head, betrayed me into.
Page 512 - He did not think all mischief fair, Although he had a knack of joking ; He did not make himself a bear, Although he had a taste for smoking. And when religious sects ran mad He held, in spite of all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad It will not be improved by burning.
Page 515 - And a terrible heart-thrill, If you have no power of giving: An arm of aid to the weak, A friendly hand to the friendless, Kind words, so short to speak, But whose echo is endless: The world is wide, — these things are small, They may be nothing, but they are All.