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Page 177 - There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Page 148 - I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Page 149 - Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion. This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the Genii that move...
Page 19 - Lives of the Saints.' The UNCANONICAL and APOCRVPHAL SCRIPTURES. Being the Additions to the Old Testament Canon which were included in the Ancient Greek and Latin Veraions; the English Text of the Authorized Version, together with the Additional Matter found in the Vulgate and other Ancient Versions; Introductions to the several Books and Fragments; Marginal Notes and References ; and a General Introduction to the Apocrypha. By the Rev. WR CHURTON, BD, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, Canon of...
Page 351 - Now is the stately column broke. The beacon light is quenched in smoke ; The trumpet's silver voice is still ; The warder silent on the hill.
Page 80 - WRIGHT— Optical Projection : a Treatise on the Use of the Lantern in Exhibition and Scientific Demonstration. By LEWIS WRIGHT, Author of ' Light : a Course of Experimental Optics '. With 232 Illustrations.
Page 320 - And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair. My sister, and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we.
Page 361 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 320 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown: A train-band captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, " Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. "To-morrow is our wedding-day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
Page 19 - Its NATURE and BENEFITS. With a Notice of some Common Objections to Receiving it. Part II.

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