Littell's Living Age, Volume 286Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1915 - Literature |
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... leave Belgium and thus abandon the vast work being done for the relief of the people of that coun- try . All Americans would be com- pelled to leave Germany , Austria , and Turkey , thus depriving British , French , and Russian ...
... leave Belgium and thus abandon the vast work being done for the relief of the people of that coun- try . All Americans would be com- pelled to leave Germany , Austria , and Turkey , thus depriving British , French , and Russian ...
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... leave it alone for the present . Pierre had now finished the three If no busts he had been commissioned to execute , and was about to begin on his fourth and last commission . other orders for busts were forth- coming he would soon have ...
... leave it alone for the present . Pierre had now finished the three If no busts he had been commissioned to execute , and was about to begin on his fourth and last commission . other orders for busts were forth- coming he would soon have ...
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... leave indeli- ble impressions on his mind . His home lay on the banks of the Scheldt , at Saint - Amand , midway be . tween Antwerp and Termonde , names to - day of tragic import . The family was well - to - do and owned a large house ...
... leave indeli- ble impressions on his mind . His home lay on the banks of the Scheldt , at Saint - Amand , midway be . tween Antwerp and Termonde , names to - day of tragic import . The family was well - to - do and owned a large house ...
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... leave Belgium to the tragic fate that has befallen her , her soul would continue to live through her literature as the essential soul of Poland still lives after a century and a half of partition and spoliation , and to Emile Verhaeren ...
... leave Belgium to the tragic fate that has befallen her , her soul would continue to live through her literature as the essential soul of Poland still lives after a century and a half of partition and spoliation , and to Emile Verhaeren ...
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... fact he can't bear him . He says he can't get him out of bed in the morning . " " But if the butler doesn't like him , why doesn't he leave him in bed ? That's one of the questions the new science will answer Footmanry . 49.
... fact he can't bear him . He says he can't get him out of bed in the morning . " " But if the butler doesn't like him , why doesn't he leave him in bed ? That's one of the questions the new science will answer Footmanry . 49.
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Page 444 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a lamb.' So I piped with merry cheer; 'Piper, pipe that song again.
Page 444 - I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not...
Page 108 - Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Page 600 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Page 401 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Page 388 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho...
Page 297 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Page 607 - March would constitute, were its provisions to be actually carried into effect as they stand, a practical assertion of unlimited belligerent rights over neutral commerce within the whole European area, and an almost unqualified denial of the sovereign rights of the nations now at peace.
Page 444 - Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped: he wept to hear. "Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read.
Page 6 - No. 100, of 1863 (Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field), and to have been decided in favor of the permanency of these regulations.