Best Things from Best Authors, Volume 4Jacob W. Shoemaker Penn Publishing Company, 1908 |
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... face black with settled hate . Let him draw , rather , a decorous , smooth - faced , bloodless demon ; not so much an example of human nature in its depravity and in its paroxysms of crime , as an infernal being , a fiend in the ...
... face black with settled hate . Let him draw , rather , a decorous , smooth - faced , bloodless demon ; not so much an example of human nature in its depravity and in its paroxysms of crime , as an infernal being , a fiend in the ...
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... face tenderly lifted to the cooling breeze , he looked out wistfully upon the ocean's changing wonders , ―on its far sails , whitening in the morning light ; on its restless waves , rolling shoreward to break and die beneath the noonday ...
... face tenderly lifted to the cooling breeze , he looked out wistfully upon the ocean's changing wonders , ―on its far sails , whitening in the morning light ; on its restless waves , rolling shoreward to break and die beneath the noonday ...
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... face . " Abaft the wind hauled fair and fine , Lightly the ship sped on her way , Her sharp bows crushed the yielding brine Into a diamond dust of spray . " But up and down the decks her crew Shook their rough heads and eyed askance ...
... face . " Abaft the wind hauled fair and fine , Lightly the ship sped on her way , Her sharp bows crushed the yielding brine Into a diamond dust of spray . " But up and down the decks her crew Shook their rough heads and eyed askance ...
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... face , and would have given the world , the next moment , if he could have spared her that . The poor woman's face was crimson , and the tears stood in her eyes . Washington did not know what to do . He wished he had never come there ...
... face , and would have given the world , the next moment , if he could have spared her that . The poor woman's face was crimson , and the tears stood in her eyes . Washington did not know what to do . He wished he had never come there ...
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... face , returning home from its watchings . Then it came to pass that a pestilence fell on the city . Wealth had no power to bribe , nor beauty to charm , the oppressor ; But all perished alike beneath the scourge of his anger ; Only ...
... face , returning home from its watchings . Then it came to pass that a pestilence fell on the city . Wealth had no power to bribe , nor beauty to charm , the oppressor ; But all perished alike beneath the scourge of his anger ; Only ...
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Best Things from Best Authors: Comprising Number 1- of Shoemaker's ..., Volume 4 Jacob W. Shoemaker Visualização integral - 1895 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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Página 110 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Página 110 - When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder ; Then did he see it, and declare it ; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Página 100 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Página 99 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity : so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Página 99 - Therewith bless we God, even the Father ; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Página 124 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Página 80 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : And the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Página 87 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists ; die slaves ; die, it may be, ignominiously, and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while...
Página 87 - Publish it from the pulpit; religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it, or fall with it, Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support "Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see,...
Página 55 - And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.