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... become impetuous in the dance , now less excited , afterwards motionless , and at last a calm pervades the assembly of this gay dancing vegetable world . Such is an American prairie . In this scene the entire surface of the ground is ...
... become impetuous in the dance , now less excited , afterwards motionless , and at last a calm pervades the assembly of this gay dancing vegetable world . Such is an American prairie . In this scene the entire surface of the ground is ...
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... become sufficiently decayed , he has recourse to leverage and the axe , by which means they are uprooted . Prior to this final extermination , the sight of columns of wood thickly planted over the ground in the neighbour- hood of the ...
... become sufficiently decayed , he has recourse to leverage and the axe , by which means they are uprooted . Prior to this final extermination , the sight of columns of wood thickly planted over the ground in the neighbour- hood of the ...
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... become acquainted with the different kinds of pine trees such as Scotch fir , the larch ( first intro- duced into Scotland by a former Duke of Athol ) , the spruce , the beautiful mountain ash , with its fine red fruit forming a most ...
... become acquainted with the different kinds of pine trees such as Scotch fir , the larch ( first intro- duced into Scotland by a former Duke of Athol ) , the spruce , the beautiful mountain ash , with its fine red fruit forming a most ...
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... become gradually less , until they disappear ; to be sub- stituted for another class of plants , viz . , the heather ( or calluna vulgaris ) , and other ericas or heaths , which grow in broad , continuous , and widely - diffused masses ...
... become gradually less , until they disappear ; to be sub- stituted for another class of plants , viz . , the heather ( or calluna vulgaris ) , and other ericas or heaths , which grow in broad , continuous , and widely - diffused masses ...
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... becomes stirred , deeply stirred to its most inmost recesses , and which may be in- cluded in the same rank in point of singularity and sublimity as the primeval forest of North America , the African desert , and the highest peaks of ...
... becomes stirred , deeply stirred to its most inmost recesses , and which may be in- cluded in the same rank in point of singularity and sublimity as the primeval forest of North America , the African desert , and the highest peaks of ...
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Page 62 - More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned; and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Page 167 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands...
Page 176 - ... the great contexture of this mysterious whole. These things do not make your government. Dead instruments, passive tools as they are, it is the spirit of the English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English constitution which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies, every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Page 167 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 169 - ... such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country...
Page 175 - ... and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation; the cement is gone; the cohesion is loosened; and everything hastens to decay and dissolution.
Page 171 - Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Ba,thurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough...
Page 168 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms — never, never, never...
Page 166 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 63 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.