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... entirely of sand , and a wide ex- panse of green grass ; or , in other words , the sea , the desert , and the prairie , all in juxta position , seen from one locality in his native land , without incurring the risk , expense , and ...
... entirely of sand , and a wide ex- panse of green grass ; or , in other words , the sea , the desert , and the prairie , all in juxta position , seen from one locality in his native land , without incurring the risk , expense , and ...
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... entirely composed of grasses and flowers of a pecu- liar kind . We have seen , also , that the majestic primeval forests of North America are entirely constituted by an assemblage of wonderful and colossal trees ; that lakes , rivers ...
... entirely composed of grasses and flowers of a pecu- liar kind . We have seen , also , that the majestic primeval forests of North America are entirely constituted by an assemblage of wonderful and colossal trees ; that lakes , rivers ...
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... entirely deprived of trees and shrubs of every de- scription whatever , forming one uniform even sea of flowers , brilliant pink , red , and scarlet , spread like a carpet over the surface of the hills , whose distant and blooming tops ...
... entirely deprived of trees and shrubs of every de- scription whatever , forming one uniform even sea of flowers , brilliant pink , red , and scarlet , spread like a carpet over the surface of the hills , whose distant and blooming tops ...
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... entirely composed of masses of boulders , of granite , and gnies , yet a particularly good soil was formed , producing a herbage suffi- ciently rich to depasture some of the largest and best cows in Norway . It was there I became ...
... entirely composed of masses of boulders , of granite , and gnies , yet a particularly good soil was formed , producing a herbage suffi- ciently rich to depasture some of the largest and best cows in Norway . It was there I became ...
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... entirely deprived of its most astonishing and unrivalled deep purple colour . This quality of the water of the Atlantic exists to such an extent as not only to constitute one of the great charms of the scene , as regards the mere ...
... entirely deprived of its most astonishing and unrivalled deep purple colour . This quality of the water of the Atlantic exists to such an extent as not only to constitute one of the great charms of the scene , as regards the mere ...
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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.