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Page 119
... wish to know that Louis 14th died in 1715 , I express it thus , Lou - die - pal , ( where 1,000 is omitted with- out any danger of mistake , ) com - aulei gives the number of the house of commons ; com - esu the date of its first ...
... wish to know that Louis 14th died in 1715 , I express it thus , Lou - die - pal , ( where 1,000 is omitted with- out any danger of mistake , ) com - aulei gives the number of the house of commons ; com - esu the date of its first ...
Page 126
... wish to have at his fingers ' ends the whole series of popes - how many rooms full of symbols must the poor man burden his memory with ? The next chapter is on geography ; we shall not trouble our readers with the method of dividing the ...
... wish to have at his fingers ' ends the whole series of popes - how many rooms full of symbols must the poor man burden his memory with ? The next chapter is on geography ; we shall not trouble our readers with the method of dividing the ...
Page 175
... wish him every success in this undertaking . We do not expect to find in him a Livy or a Tacitus , but the work , if executed with the same care and accuracy with the present , cannot fail of being in the highest degree useful . A new ...
... wish him every success in this undertaking . We do not expect to find in him a Livy or a Tacitus , but the work , if executed with the same care and accuracy with the present , cannot fail of being in the highest degree useful . A new ...
Page 177
... wish it were possible to present his observations unbroken to our readers , as they certainly supply by far the ablest and most candid estimate of that extraordinary wri- ter with which we are acquainted . But we must be satisfied with ...
... wish it were possible to present his observations unbroken to our readers , as they certainly supply by far the ablest and most candid estimate of that extraordinary wri- ter with which we are acquainted . But we must be satisfied with ...
Page 187
... wish . Unhappily , when a nation has got to phi- losophising , like Babouc , it knows not how , like him , to stop and weigh its decision ; it is only by a deplorable experience that it dis- covers , when too late , that it ought not to ...
... wish . Unhappily , when a nation has got to phi- losophising , like Babouc , it knows not how , like him , to stop and weigh its decision ; it is only by a deplorable experience that it dis- covers , when too late , that it ought not to ...
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Page 516 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 433 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave 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 420 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 433 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming...
Page 418 - For other things mild Heaven a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
Page 424 - On shining altars of japan they raise The silver lamp ; the fiery spirits blaze : From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide: At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
Page 422 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 419 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.
Page 434 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Page 286 - You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.