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... known places , and on the most commonly used proverbs . Short biographies have also been introduced of a few of our greatest men ; and specimens of writers of different eras , especially our poets , have been inserted , including ...
... known places , and on the most commonly used proverbs . Short biographies have also been introduced of a few of our greatest men ; and specimens of writers of different eras , especially our poets , have been inserted , including ...
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... known but highly interesting fossils of the old red sandstone in one deposition ; we find the beauti- fully - preserved shells and lignites of the lias in another . These are the remains of two several creations at once - before us ...
... known but highly interesting fossils of the old red sandstone in one deposition ; we find the beauti- fully - preserved shells and lignites of the lias in another . These are the remains of two several creations at once - before us ...
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... direction . The Mediterranean was as well known to them as a great highway . Then they voyaged into the unknown seas beyond the two great headlands called the Pillars of Hercules , which close in the Straits of THE DRUIDS . 23.
... direction . The Mediterranean was as well known to them as a great highway . Then they voyaged into the unknown seas beyond the two great headlands called the Pillars of Hercules , which close in the Straits of THE DRUIDS . 23.
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... known . At last , in the year 43 of the Christian era , the Romans set to work in earnest to conquer Britain , and from this time we begin to hear something trustworthy . 6. Our common ideas of the ancient Britons are more like the ...
... known . At last , in the year 43 of the Christian era , the Romans set to work in earnest to conquer Britain , and from this time we begin to hear something trustworthy . 6. Our common ideas of the ancient Britons are more like the ...
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... Concerning the religious ideas which lay behind all these rites and festivals very little is known . Some people believe that among the Druids themselves there was a secret wisdom of a very pure and high. THE DRUIDS . 27.
... Concerning the religious ideas which lay behind all these rites and festivals very little is known . Some people believe that among the Druids themselves there was a secret wisdom of a very pure and high. THE DRUIDS . 27.
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Page 354 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 282 - And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd?
Page 75 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 275 - ... resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Page 77 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
Page 311 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 201 - neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus, with the host of heaven, came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Page 76 - The task, in smoother walks to stray; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may. Through no disturbance of my soul, Or strong compunction in me wrought, I supplicate for thy control; But in the quietness of thought: Me this unchartered freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires: My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.
Page 201 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Page 76 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.