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... heard from them at various intervals . This beautiful corruscation , which has never yet been satisfactorily explained , is said to have appeared much seldomer eighty or ninety years ago than it does at present . It appears now ...
... heard from them at various intervals . This beautiful corruscation , which has never yet been satisfactorily explained , is said to have appeared much seldomer eighty or ninety years ago than it does at present . It appears now ...
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... heard , nearly at the same time , throughout the whole extent of Canada . That noise seems to have been the effect of a sudden vibration of the air , agitated in all direc- tions . It appeared as if the houses were on fire , and the ...
... heard , nearly at the same time , throughout the whole extent of Canada . That noise seems to have been the effect of a sudden vibration of the air , agitated in all direc- tions . It appeared as if the houses were on fire , and the ...
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... heard , and the fires assumed every species of form . Porpoises and sea - cows were heard howling in the water at Three Rivers , where none of these fishes had ever before been found , and the noise which they sent forth resembled not ...
... heard , and the fires assumed every species of form . Porpoises and sea - cows were heard howling in the water at Three Rivers , where none of these fishes had ever before been found , and the noise which they sent forth resembled not ...
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... heard of the devil entering the herd of swine , and I find that he still sticks fast in the Bacon . Good morning to thee , friend ! " AN EXCELLENT CUSTOM . AN excellent custom extends to every debtor confined in the prison of Swansea ...
... heard of the devil entering the herd of swine , and I find that he still sticks fast in the Bacon . Good morning to thee , friend ! " AN EXCELLENT CUSTOM . AN excellent custom extends to every debtor confined in the prison of Swansea ...
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... heard some indistinct rumours respecting the magnificence of the Asiatic cities , the arts of civilized states , and the philosophy of the Greeks , he resolved to obtain a knowledge of these subjects , and to travel in those beautiful ...
... heard some indistinct rumours respecting the magnificence of the Asiatic cities , the arts of civilized states , and the philosophy of the Greeks , he resolved to obtain a knowledge of these subjects , and to travel in those beautiful ...
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Página 230 - But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Página 344 - Was as a mockery of the tomb, Whose tints as gently sunk away As a departing rainbow's ray — An eye of most transparent light, That almost made the dungeon bright, And not a word of murmur — nut A groan o'er his untimely lot...
Página 230 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 230 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Página 230 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Página 197 - Parallels of this sort rather furnish similitudes to illustrate or to adorn, than supply analogies from whence to reason. The objects which are attempted to be forced into an analogy are not found in the same classes of existence. Individuals are physical beings, subject to laws universal and invariable. The immediate cause acting in these laws may be obscure : the general results are subjects of certain calculation. But cemmonwealths are not physical but moral essences.
Página 94 - Cataracts of declamation thunder here ; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald...
Página 98 - Franklin, as president of the "Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," etc., issued the following letter: — "AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. " From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes unla-wfully held in Bondage.
Página 320 - His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide, and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes, vacant and spiritless; and the corpulence of his whole person was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman, than of a refined philosopher.
Página 205 - ... new acquirements would enable me to see the ladies with tolerable intrepidity ; but, alas ! how vain are all the hopes of theory...