The Living Age, Volumen263E. Littell & Company, 1909 |
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... close is his seat , so light his bridle- hand , so gently have the crows ' feet pressed the angles of his alert and kindly eyes . The fellow bears himself like a griffin in his first season , show- ing a firm , bronzed cheek , a well ...
... close is his seat , so light his bridle- hand , so gently have the crows ' feet pressed the angles of his alert and kindly eyes . The fellow bears himself like a griffin in his first season , show- ing a firm , bronzed cheek , a well ...
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... close . But with its close a new question arises - to what nation does the North Pole be- long ? To Canada presumably by virtue of proximity ; but ( says Commander Peary , in a telegram to the President of the United States ) , " I have ...
... close . But with its close a new question arises - to what nation does the North Pole be- long ? To Canada presumably by virtue of proximity ; but ( says Commander Peary , in a telegram to the President of the United States ) , " I have ...
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... close merely serves to bring to mind the unselfish devotion with which the big , rough hero has acted from the beginning , and to show why , although his heart's de- sire is denied to his solitary life he is still " Happy " Hawkins ...
... close merely serves to bring to mind the unselfish devotion with which the big , rough hero has acted from the beginning , and to show why , although his heart's de- sire is denied to his solitary life he is still " Happy " Hawkins ...
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... close watch upon the comet and followed its course over the sky . It was noticed that it had a somewhat oval - shaped body , and that it was moving in a path contrary to the regular course of the planets , or " retro- grade , " and but ...
... close watch upon the comet and followed its course over the sky . It was noticed that it had a somewhat oval - shaped body , and that it was moving in a path contrary to the regular course of the planets , or " retro- grade , " and but ...
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... close early in November 1758 . the 14th of that month M. Clairaut pre- sented a memoir on the subject to the Academy of Sciences , Paris , in the course of which he remarks upon the lively interest the public generally were taking in ...
... close early in November 1758 . the 14th of that month M. Clairaut pre- sented a memoir on the subject to the Academy of Sciences , Paris , in the course of which he remarks upon the lively interest the public generally were taking in ...
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Página 481 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Página 614 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Página 163 - How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and Fox alone.
Página 229 - The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows!
Página 550 - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
Página 229 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter— the wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his sleep.
Página 162 - King James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear or see their foes Until at weapon-point they close. — They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air: Oh!
Página 528 - Thou canst not prove thou art immortal, no Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with thyself, For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven...
Página 71 - Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.
Página 248 - I dare say he thinks he has done a mighty thing. He won't stay till he gets home to his seat in the country, to produce this wonderful deed: hell call up the landlord of the first inn on the road; and, after a suitable preface upon mortality and the uncertainty of life, will tell him that he should not delay making his will; and here, Sir...