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... nature are before us , and invite us to contemplate the power , the wisdom , and the benevolence of that great and good Being at whose word they sprang up , and presented themselves as proper objects of our admira- tion , and our ...
... nature are before us , and invite us to contemplate the power , the wisdom , and the benevolence of that great and good Being at whose word they sprang up , and presented themselves as proper objects of our admira- tion , and our ...
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... nature , on the earth , and the productions of every climate ; and is a very useful study to the merchant and the politician , and shows the former where commerce is most advantageously pursued , and the latter the natural obsta- cles ...
... nature , on the earth , and the productions of every climate ; and is a very useful study to the merchant and the politician , and shows the former where commerce is most advantageously pursued , and the latter the natural obsta- cles ...
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... nature who combines in her- self these united perfections , may be justly considered the masterpiece of creation . LESSON VII . Variety of expression , continued . To preserve the unity * of a sentence , it is sometimes ne- cessary to ...
... nature who combines in her- self these united perfections , may be justly considered the masterpiece of creation . LESSON VII . Variety of expression , continued . To preserve the unity * of a sentence , it is sometimes ne- cessary to ...
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... Nature dressed the scene in the richest colours and most graceful forms , and never could the eye enjoy a rich- er spectacle . 14. I travelled through the county of Orange , and my eye was caught by a cluster of horses tied near a ...
... Nature dressed the scene in the richest colours and most graceful forms , and never could the eye enjoy a rich- er spectacle . 14. I travelled through the county of Orange , and my eye was caught by a cluster of horses tied near a ...
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... natural flow . 11. The rust of inactivity obscures the brightness of many a pass ing hour . 12. Indolent habits lay the foundation of future misery . Another . When the school was dismissed , the children went home . Same idea ...
... natural flow . 11. The rust of inactivity obscures the brightness of many a pass ing hour . 12. Indolent habits lay the foundation of future misery . Another . When the school was dismissed , the children went home . Same idea ...
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Page 30 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 31 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 30 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.
Page 54 - Yet, fair as thou art, thou shunnest to glide, Beautiful stream! by the village side; But windest away from haunts of men, To quiet valley and shaded glen ; And forest, and meadow, and slope of hill, Around thee, are lonely, lovely, and still.
Page 59 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 30 - Epitaph Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A Youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown; Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Page 10 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, Surely, said I, man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Page 42 - My lord," said Pythias, with a firm voice and noble aspect, "I would it were possible that I might suffer a thousand deaths, rather than my friend should fail in any article of his honour. He cannot fail therein, my lord. I am as confident of his virtue, as I am of my own existence. — But I pray, I beseech the gods, to preserve the life and integrity of my Damon together.
Page 48 - To soar. Hail to the morn, when first they stood On Bunker's height, And, fearless, stemmed the invading flood, And wrote our dearest rights in blood, And mowed in ranks the Hireling brood, In desperate fight!
Page 60 - It is not fit that the land of the Pilgrims should bear the shame longer. I hear the sound of the hammer, I see the smoke of the furnaces where manacles and fetters are still forged for human limbs. I see the visages of those, who by stealth, and at midnight, labor in this work of hell, foul and dark, as may become the artificers of such instruments of misery and torture.