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... neighboring beech : " Ere you remark another's sin , Bid thy own conscience look within . Control thy more voracious bill , Nor for a breakfast nations kill . " PETER THE GREAT , CZAR OF RUSSIA . In all TURKEY AND ANT . 323.
... neighboring beech : " Ere you remark another's sin , Bid thy own conscience look within . Control thy more voracious bill , Nor for a breakfast nations kill . " PETER THE GREAT , CZAR OF RUSSIA . In all TURKEY AND ANT . 323.
Page 324
... Peter the First , or Peter the Great as he was afterwards called , was the first Czar of the name of Peter . He was born in the year 1672 , and lost his father when only ten years old ; and at the early age of seventeen , he was ...
... Peter the First , or Peter the Great as he was afterwards called , was the first Czar of the name of Peter . He was born in the year 1672 , and lost his father when only ten years old ; and at the early age of seventeen , he was ...
Page 325
... Peter was soon led to form many plans for improving the condition of the Russians , both by increasing their knowledge , and by introducing tools , articles of dress and manufactures , which as yet were unknown in Russia . To assist ...
... Peter was soon led to form many plans for improving the condition of the Russians , both by increasing their knowledge , and by introducing tools , articles of dress and manufactures , which as yet were unknown in Russia . To assist ...
Page 326
... Peter , than it fixed his attention . He made inquiries of some foreigners who happened to be at Moscow , as to the use of the masts and sails , for he was ignorant of things so well known among us , as to be familiar even to children ...
... Peter , than it fixed his attention . He made inquiries of some foreigners who happened to be at Moscow , as to the use of the masts and sails , for he was ignorant of things so well known among us , as to be familiar even to children ...
Page 327
... Peter was indeed great , when he beheld the masts replaced , the sails in order , and the vessel moving upon the river , that flowed by the town . He afterwards , when Czar , employed this same shipwright to build larger ships ; and in ...
... Peter was indeed great , when he beheld the masts replaced , the sails in order , and the vessel moving upon the river , that flowed by the town . He afterwards , when Czar , employed this same shipwright to build larger ships ; and in ...
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Page 253 - Caesar had his Brutus ; Charles the first his Cromwell ; and George the Third " — " Treason ! " cried the speaker ; " treason ! treason ! " echoed from every part of the house.
Page 277 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 249 - 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 24 - Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude.
Page 249 - I remember, I remember The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from- Heaven Than when I was a boy.
Page 308 - I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew ; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And...
Page 340 - Sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms. Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own ; And when the ship from his fury flies, Where the myriad voices of ocean roar, When the wind-god frowns in the murky skies, And demons are waiting the wreck on shore; Then far below in the peaceful sea, The purple mullet...
Page 337 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white ; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower ; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Page 38 - And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drowned a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains ? — a light wave, That breaks, and whispers of its Maker's might.
Page 253 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — ('Treason,' cried the speaker — ' treason, treason/ echoed from every part of the house.