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... earth , may there not be a like tendency in the blood to mount and refine also ? Great men are not always , or even com- monly , the parents of great men ; fine manners and a fine susceptibility to cul- ture in parents do not always ...
... earth , may there not be a like tendency in the blood to mount and refine also ? Great men are not always , or even com- monly , the parents of great men ; fine manners and a fine susceptibility to cul- ture in parents do not always ...
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... earth can be bell . If a little learning sets peo- round and turn around , and some- tongues loose , what then ? body's mill - dam not spill out ! We Double the dose . The way to escape also learn to value logic less and reason an enemy ...
... earth can be bell . If a little learning sets peo- round and turn around , and some- tongues loose , what then ? body's mill - dam not spill out ! We Double the dose . The way to escape also learn to value logic less and reason an enemy ...
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... earth . The time is com- ing fast when she who is now weeping in its memory will harden her heart against that past , and lose forever the ease to her deadly pain she now finds in tears . There is one who hurries along with a bundle ...
... earth . The time is com- ing fast when she who is now weeping in its memory will harden her heart against that past , and lose forever the ease to her deadly pain she now finds in tears . There is one who hurries along with a bundle ...
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... earth can save him . ' They bowed without speaking , and passed out into the street . It was Mr. Allen that spoke first . ' Cloyden , you must prepare for a most startling , perhaps a most joyful an- nouncement . ' Cloyden walked on ...
... earth can save him . ' They bowed without speaking , and passed out into the street . It was Mr. Allen that spoke first . ' Cloyden , you must prepare for a most startling , perhaps a most joyful an- nouncement . ' Cloyden walked on ...
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... earth con- tributes to the diminution of this ad- hesion by thawing the under surface of the glacier . This , however , takes place in those parts only where the great thickness of the ice shields the ground from the operation of ...
... earth con- tributes to the diminution of this ad- hesion by thawing the under surface of the glacier . This , however , takes place in those parts only where the great thickness of the ice shields the ground from the operation of ...
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Page 372 - He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless — Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health, Truth breathed by cheerfulness. One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Page 354 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 99 - It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 474 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 99 - They are like the troubled sea, that cannot rest; whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Page 90 - In his family, gentle, generous, good-humored, affectionate, self-denying: in society, a delightful example of complete gentlemanhood ; quite unspoiled by prosperity ; never obsequious to the great (or, worse still, to the base and mean, as some public men are forced to be in his and other countries) ; eager to acknowledge every contemporary's merit; always kind and affable...
Page 354 - Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Page 90 - ... the young members of his calling; in his professional bargains and mercantile dealings, delicately honest and grateful; one of the most charming masters of our lighter language; the constant friend to us and our nation ; to men of letters doubly dear, not for his wit and genius merely, but as an exemplar of goodness, probity, and pure life...
Page 226 - The rounded world is fair to see, Nine times folded in mystery: Though baffled seers cannot impart The secret of its laboring heart, Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast, And all is clear from east to west.
Page 474 - And thou, serenest moon, That with such holy face Dost look upon the earth Asleep in Night's embrace Tell me, in all thy round Hast thou not seen some spot Where miserable man Might find a happier lot? Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in woe, And a voice sweet but sad responded, No.