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... whole land . " " Edrei , the city of Og , on whose giant - like proportions the rabbis have more giant - like lies . " " Pisgah , where Moses viewed the land : hereabouts the angel buried him , and also buried the grave , lest it should ...
... whole land . " " Edrei , the city of Og , on whose giant - like proportions the rabbis have more giant - like lies . " " Pisgah , where Moses viewed the land : hereabouts the angel buried him , and also buried the grave , lest it should ...
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... whole life and even his whole writings , men of that which is their portion in this prove him to have been possessed of genuine life , ' comfortably to enjoy the blessings veneration for all that is divine , and genuine thereof ! Yet ...
... whole life and even his whole writings , men of that which is their portion in this prove him to have been possessed of genuine life , ' comfortably to enjoy the blessings veneration for all that is divine , and genuine thereof ! Yet ...
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... whole manner is that of an honest , might well interpret into the severest irony , man , striving to be impartial , even if not It would be improper to close this analysis always successful . Had he been the un - of one of the most ...
... whole manner is that of an honest , might well interpret into the severest irony , man , striving to be impartial , even if not It would be improper to close this analysis always successful . Had he been the un - of one of the most ...
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... whole . The problem of discovery . In later times the whole subject the three bodies has such solution as hun- has lapsed into burlesque ; the few who have dreds of other problems have : approximate made rational attempts being lost in ...
... whole . The problem of discovery . In later times the whole subject the three bodies has such solution as hun- has lapsed into burlesque ; the few who have dreds of other problems have : approximate made rational attempts being lost in ...
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... whole population , from the highest to the lowest , seem to live only that they may dance . Everybody knows the effect of brilliant light on animal spirits ; the walls of these magnificent rooms are of a pale fawn color , almost ...
... whole population , from the highest to the lowest , seem to live only that they may dance . Everybody knows the effect of brilliant light on animal spirits ; the walls of these magnificent rooms are of a pale fawn color , almost ...
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Página 5 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Página 140 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
Página 6 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Página 242 - I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrelshooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon-time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around, and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoes. If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled...
Página 390 - I asked the next (Emily, afterwards Ellis Bell), what I had best do with her brother Branwell, who was sometimes a naughty boy ; she answered, ' Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him.
Página 192 - But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover...
Página 3 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
Página 18 - THE WRITINGS OF FULLER, THE CHURCH HISTORIAN. THE writings of Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason ; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most occasions it would have been going out of his way to have expressed himself out of them.
Página 192 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Página 304 - The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra ; but am I not 4 They poisoned Pope Ganganelli.