Hours at Home, Volume 10Charles Scribner & Company, 1870 |
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... asked she . " Something adrift , Miss Manning , I hardly can make out what , " replied the captain , adjusting the glass to his eye- and fixing it upon the floating object just becoming visible to the young girl's unaccustomed vision ...
... asked she . " Something adrift , Miss Manning , I hardly can make out what , " replied the captain , adjusting the glass to his eye- and fixing it upon the floating object just becoming visible to the young girl's unaccustomed vision ...
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... asked Captain Bays , with pre- cision . " Of course , captain , of course ; and the quicker the better . I'll take the com- mand of her ; and Lucia , won't you tell the steward to have dry clothes and a good stiff glass of hot grog ...
... asked Captain Bays , with pre- cision . " Of course , captain , of course ; and the quicker the better . I'll take the com- mand of her ; and Lucia , won't you tell the steward to have dry clothes and a good stiff glass of hot grog ...
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... asked Miss Manning , who had been crying for want of something better to do . “ A young man , good - looking enough ... asking any except the most general questions of their guest , and although Cavendish answered both these , and the ...
... asked Miss Manning , who had been crying for want of something better to do . “ A young man , good - looking enough ... asking any except the most general questions of their guest , and although Cavendish answered both these , and the ...
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... asked . At last , in answer to an ur- gent appeal , weighted with rich gifts , and urged by Sultan Banque in person , the king , after some hesitation , renewed his offers of service on condition that Mira , the eldest daughter of ...
... asked . At last , in answer to an ur- gent appeal , weighted with rich gifts , and urged by Sultan Banque in person , the king , after some hesitation , renewed his offers of service on condition that Mira , the eldest daughter of ...
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... asked Cavendish , patiently . " I have seen many a human skeleton two hundred years of age , and there might be still less perishable remains . Sultan Sujah was a magnificent monarch , and loved to be splendidly arrayed . Among other ...
... asked Cavendish , patiently . " I have seen many a human skeleton two hundred years of age , and there might be still less perishable remains . Sultan Sujah was a magnificent monarch , and loved to be splendidly arrayed . Among other ...
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Página 186 - My heart is smitten, and withered like grass ; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Página 442 - For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Página 477 - Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave : Nail to the mast her holy flag. Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!
Página 240 - And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee : Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly ; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Página 501 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Página 36 - I soon discovered that my father would not hear of this strange alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son;* my wound was insensibly/ healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Página 174 - Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Página 502 - If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man...
Página 501 - He is the rock of defence for human nature; an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere with him relationship and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things...
Página 113 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.