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... mighty Chief had to impose stand now advanced in view he darts his through the armed files eye experienced and views the battalion , their order , visages , soon traverse whole due and stature , he sums their number , and his II.
... mighty Chief had to impose stand now advanced in view he darts his through the armed files eye experienced and views the battalion , their order , visages , soon traverse whole due and stature , he sums their number , and his II.
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... stand cl what command their chief had to impose Subordinate Sen- tence , Adverbial to A. Principal Sen- tence . Subord . Sentence to B , adverbial to " cherishing feuds . " Subord . Sentence to b1 , adjective to " disputes . " Princ ...
... stand cl what command their chief had to impose Subordinate Sen- tence , Adverbial to A. Principal Sen- tence . Subord . Sentence to B , adverbial to " cherishing feuds . " Subord . Sentence to b1 , adjective to " disputes . " Princ ...
Página 43
... stands there till the brute comes even with him . FRENCH ORder . Contanseau . If the chamois falls , he runs to his prey , himself of it makes master , by to it cutting the ham - strings , and himself occupies of to consider by what ...
... stands there till the brute comes even with him . FRENCH ORder . Contanseau . If the chamois falls , he runs to his prey , himself of it makes master , by to it cutting the ham - strings , and himself occupies of to consider by what ...
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... stand in the way I fortune . 2 to attain to this envied situation . 3 too fre- quently . 4 virtue . 5 unhappily . 6 sometimes . 7 splendid b2 situation . 8 so many . 9 to command respect and admiration mankind . IO to act such superior ...
... stand in the way I fortune . 2 to attain to this envied situation . 3 too fre- quently . 4 virtue . 5 unhappily . 6 sometimes . 7 splendid b2 situation . 8 so many . 9 to command respect and admiration mankind . IO to act such superior ...
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... , and every accessory point stand in its due subordina- tion , nothing superfluous being intruded , nor any enlivening detail omitted ; and all must be so compacted as to produce one complete mental impression . It 71.
... , and every accessory point stand in its due subordina- tion , nothing superfluous being intruded , nor any enlivening detail omitted ; and all must be so compacted as to produce one complete mental impression . It 71.
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adjective Adverb alligator antith Arundel Castle Atlantic Ocean baron BATTLE OF DRUMCLOG beautiful Black Ditch chamois clause connectives colour composition Cond conj conn Conseq cubes death enemy English evil exercises expressed gathered round Gerund give Grammatical ground head Heart of London Helvetii human ideas Idols Imperf important inflections judgments kind of analysis labour larvæ laws of thought leads live Logical look means ment method mind minstrel mountains nature neighbours never noble noun O. W. Holmes object observed Partington pass Past indef Past perf path perceives periodic sentence phrase to G Predicate preposition Pres Principal reason relations river rock Sallust sentence Sequani Sigmund springs stone Subj Subord subordinate Subst syllogism things third watch Thorir tion trees truth virtue whilst words write ΙΟ φω
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Página 41 - Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the knowledge of evil...
Página 42 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Página 24 - I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion.
Página 27 - Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. "The islands...
Página 11 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Página 47 - ... and dulcifying a substance, naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs. It looks like refining a violet. Yet we should be cautious, while we condemn the inhumanity, how we censure the wisdom of the practice.
Página 46 - Pig, let me speak his praise, is no less provocative of the appetite than he is satisfactory to the criticalness of the censorious palate. The strong man may batten on him, and the weakling refuseth not his mild juices. Unlike to mankind's mixed characters, a bundle of virtues and vices, inexplicably intertwisted, and not to be unraveled without hazard, he is good throughout.
Página 32 - Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Página 48 - What an odd revelation, and what an unforeseen and unpleasant surprise to a small community, the very existence of which you had not suspected, until the sudden dismay and scattering among its members produced by your turning the old stone over ! Blades of grass flattened down, colorless, matted together, as if they had been bleached and ironed ; hideous crawling creatures, some of them coleopterous or...
Página 42 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and f heat.