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... four - and - thirtieth year of his age , having so much dispatched the true business of life , that the eldest rarely attain to that immense knowledge , and the youngest enter not into the world with more innocency . Whosoever leads ...
... four - and - thirtieth year of his age , having so much dispatched the true business of life , that the eldest rarely attain to that immense knowledge , and the youngest enter not into the world with more innocency . Whosoever leads ...
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... four grains troy , used in weighing gold and precious stones . The quantity of pure metal mixed with alloy is generally stated as so many carats out of twenty - four . So that " less fine of carat " would signify gold less pure , and ...
... four grains troy , used in weighing gold and precious stones . The quantity of pure metal mixed with alloy is generally stated as so many carats out of twenty - four . So that " less fine of carat " would signify gold less pure , and ...
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... Four would have the same inconvenience , and a greater number would cause too much confusion . History offers an unanswerable argument against despotic power . When the prince is a man of wisdom and virtue , it is indeed happy for his ...
... Four would have the same inconvenience , and a greater number would cause too much confusion . History offers an unanswerable argument against despotic power . When the prince is a man of wisdom and virtue , it is indeed happy for his ...
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... four in the morning ; when they fix their materials they plaster them on with their chins , moving their heads with a quick vibratory s motion . They dip and wash as they fly , sometimes in hot weather , but not so frequently as ...
... four in the morning ; when they fix their materials they plaster them on with their chins , moving their heads with a quick vibratory s motion . They dip and wash as they fly , sometimes in hot weather , but not so frequently as ...
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... four species of the English hirundines - the swallow , the swift , and the bank - martin . Their wings and tails are short , and therefore they are not capable of such surprising turns , and quick , glancing evolutions as the swallow ...
... four species of the English hirundines - the swallow , the swift , and the bank - martin . Their wings and tails are short , and therefore they are not capable of such surprising turns , and quick , glancing evolutions as the swallow ...
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Philips' Series of Reading Books for Public Elementary Schools, Ed. by J.G ... Ltd Philip George and Son No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 111 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests ; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 32 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : And thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Page 77 - The impetuous song, and say from whom you rage. His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills ; And let me catch it, as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid, and profound; Ye softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the vale ; and thou, majestic main, A secret world of wonders in thyself, Sound His stupendous praise ; whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall. Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to Him ; whose sun exalts,...
Page 84 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot, the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed...
Page 71 - And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged...
Page 70 - Ah wherefore ! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was, In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none ; nor was his service hard. What could be less, than to afford him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks, How due...
Page 27 - And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say ' To-morrow is Saint Crispian : ' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Page 77 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On Nature write with every beam His praise.
Page 109 - twere its natural torches, for divine Should be the light which streams here, to illume This long-explored but still exhaustless mine Of contemplation...
Page 99 - ... High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame. Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers. The streets were kept clear by cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine, were marshalled by the heralds under Garter King-at-arms.