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... course of the critics . That is the usual course . The biographer comes to love the man whom at first he had only en- dured . To endurance , according to the old notion , succeeds pity , and then comes the embrace . And that embrace is ...
... course of the critics . That is the usual course . The biographer comes to love the man whom at first he had only en- dured . To endurance , according to the old notion , succeeds pity , and then comes the embrace . And that embrace is ...
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... course of time consumed the two Houses of York and Lancaster . Left an infant of three years , it was long before York became a party - leader , and probably he never would have disputed the succession but for the weakness of Henry VI ...
... course of time consumed the two Houses of York and Lancaster . Left an infant of three years , it was long before York became a party - leader , and probably he never would have disputed the succession but for the weakness of Henry VI ...
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... course of Na- ture ? She was one of Cromwell's vic- tims , and as he had been deemed unfit to live because of his violations of the laws of the realm , it would follow that one whose attainder had been procured through his devices could ...
... course of Na- ture ? She was one of Cromwell's vic- tims , and as he had been deemed unfit to live because of his violations of the laws of the realm , it would follow that one whose attainder had been procured through his devices could ...
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... course , this could not last forever . There came a time when I found that my affairs would compel me to leave New Orleans for a year , or perhaps a little longer . With the discovery my dream was broken . The golden web which had been ...
... course , this could not last forever . There came a time when I found that my affairs would compel me to leave New Orleans for a year , or perhaps a little longer . With the discovery my dream was broken . The golden web which had been ...
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... course , there was one other person- age , in the class of statesmen , whom I should have been truly mortified to leave Washington without seeing ; since ( tem- porarily , at least , and by force of circum- stances ) he was the man of ...
... course , there was one other person- age , in the class of statesmen , whom I should have been truly mortified to leave Washington without seeing ; since ( tem- porarily , at least , and by force of circum- stances ) he was the man of ...
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Page 526 - That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten ; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Page 385 - Thy country feels through her reviving arts, Plann'd by thy wisdom, by thy soul inform'd ; And seldom has she known a friend like thee. But see the fading many-colour'd woods, Shade deepening over shade, the country round Imbrown ; a crowded umbrage, dusk, and dun, Of every hue, from wan declining green To sooty dark.
Page 513 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 246 - I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.
Page 239 - His father was a manufacturer of lead pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft, believing he could make a better pencil than was then in use. After completing his experiments, he exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. But he replied, that he should never...
Page 365 - That, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, to the bitter cross.
Page 587 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can.
Page 248 - Had his genius been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life, but with his energy and practical ability he seemed born for great enterprise and for command; and I so much regret the loss of his rare powers of action, that I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition.
Page 516 - Here's to thee, old apple-tree, Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow ! And whence thou mayst bear apples enow ! Hats full ! caps full ! Bushel — bushel — sacks full, And my pockets full too ! Huzza...
Page 443 - For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.