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... rest were about one hundred and fifty . By these streets thus crossing each other , the whole city was divided into six hundred and seventy - six squares , each of them four furlongs and a half on every side , that is , two miles and a ...
... rest were about one hundred and fifty . By these streets thus crossing each other , the whole city was divided into six hundred and seventy - six squares , each of them four furlongs and a half on every side , that is , two miles and a ...
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... rest . In such a heart soft peace will live , Where none of these abound ; The greatest blessing Heaven does give , Or can on earth be found . LESSON EIGHTH . Porus and Alexander . Porus , after having performed all the duty both of a ...
... rest . In such a heart soft peace will live , Where none of these abound ; The greatest blessing Heaven does give , Or can on earth be found . LESSON EIGHTH . Porus and Alexander . Porus , after having performed all the duty both of a ...
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... rest are sober dreamers , grave and wise And pregnant with discoveries new and rare . wwwwww LESSON FOURTEENTH . The First Lesson of Cyrus . It is reported of Cyrus , when young , that , being asked what was the first thing he learned ...
... rest are sober dreamers , grave and wise And pregnant with discoveries new and rare . wwwwww LESSON FOURTEENTH . The First Lesson of Cyrus . It is reported of Cyrus , when young , that , being asked what was the first thing he learned ...
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... rest assured , that she has been amongst us , as she would have been in the house of her father and moth- er . Far be it from Scipio to purchase any pleasure at the expense of virtue , honor , and the happiness of an honest man ! No ; I ...
... rest assured , that she has been amongst us , as she would have been in the house of her father and moth- er . Far be it from Scipio to purchase any pleasure at the expense of virtue , honor , and the happiness of an honest man ! No ; I ...
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... rest ! LESSON TWENTY - FOURTH . Cincinnatus . When Herodotus , taking advantage of the domestic troubles at Rome , possessed himself of the capital , the Consul Valerius Publicola repulsed him , but fell at the head of his troops ...
... rest ! LESSON TWENTY - FOURTH . Cincinnatus . When Herodotus , taking advantage of the domestic troubles at Rome , possessed himself of the capital , the Consul Valerius Publicola repulsed him , but fell at the head of his troops ...
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Page 74 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 106 - Several of our Young People were formerly brought up at the Colleges of the Northern Provinces; they were instructed in all your Sciences; but when they came back to us, they were bad Runners, ignorant of every means of living in the Woods, unable to bear either Cold or Hunger, knew neither how to build a Cabin, take a Deer, or kill an Enemy, spoke our Language imperfectly; were therefore neither fit for Hunters, Warriors, or Counsellors; they were totally good for nothing. We are however not the...
Page 93 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Page 36 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 64 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He who made him such, Who centred in our make such strange extremes! From different natures marvellously mixed, Connection exquisite of distant worlds! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity!
Page 70 - He that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbitteriug all his state.
Page 120 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, — For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, — And thou must die.
Page 154 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality ; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Page 28 - Content I live, this is my stay; I seek no more than may suffice ; I press to bear no haughty sway; Look, what I lack my mind supplies. Lo, thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring.