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... French call a frisson , invades you . Your instinctive sleepiness vanishes . If you have enough control of yourself to lie down during breakfast , you choose a spot within 22 A LETTER TO MY DOG Sargent, Daniel, Courtesy Sayre, Francis ...
... French call a frisson , invades you . Your instinctive sleepiness vanishes . If you have enough control of yourself to lie down during breakfast , you choose a spot within 22 A LETTER TO MY DOG Sargent, Daniel, Courtesy Sayre, Francis ...
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... French first came to Wimbledon they used to cast wry faces at a slippery , oily surface upon which neither their feet nor their strokes would go right . Now the leading Frenchmen recognize that a turf court is the championship court par ...
... French first came to Wimbledon they used to cast wry faces at a slippery , oily surface upon which neither their feet nor their strokes would go right . Now the leading Frenchmen recognize that a turf court is the championship court par ...
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... French influence to Timbuktu , and Joffre was taken from his railway work to command a supplementary column of one thousand men two thirds of whom were carriers and followers . Passing up the left bank of the Niger , he joined Bonnier ...
... French influence to Timbuktu , and Joffre was taken from his railway work to command a supplementary column of one thousand men two thirds of whom were carriers and followers . Passing up the left bank of the Niger , he joined Bonnier ...
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... French military policy on the path to a crevasse which they had not perceived - because they were too absorbed in military occultism to watch the ground over which their steps were taking them . II How did this astonishing appoint- ment ...
... French military policy on the path to a crevasse which they had not perceived - because they were too absorbed in military occultism to watch the ground over which their steps were taking them . II How did this astonishing appoint- ment ...
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... French Army , returning to its traditions , no longer knows any other law than the offensive . . . . All attacks are to be pushed to the extreme with the firm resolution to charge the enemy with the bayonet , in order to destroy him ...
... French Army , returning to its traditions , no longer knows any other law than the offensive . . . . All attacks are to be pushed to the extreme with the firm resolution to charge the enemy with the bayonet , in order to destroy him ...
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Page 277 - make of it!' He became conscious of the words his brother was reading. 'Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and hi the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these
Page 548 - glowing; rapturous and frightened by turns. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. It must have been the eye of his heart which he had been
Page 369 - in office, to which your suffrages have twice called me, have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty, and to a deference to what appeared to be your wishes. ... I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the pursuit of duty or propriety.
Page 377 - in retiring from the presidential office after their second term, has become, by universal concurrence, a part of our republican system of government, and that any departure from this time-honored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions. There
Page 343 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
Page 201 - Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Page 277 - the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 317 - The impression we receive is of a feverish struggle for literary existence, a terrible pressure of the poetical population on the means of subsistence. 'Pope writes: — When sick of muse our follies we deplore And promise our best friends to write no more, We wake next morning in a raging fit, And call for pen and ink to show our wit.
Page 720 - God hath given power to his ministers to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins, and that
Page 370 - General Washington set the example of retirement at the end of eight years. I shall follow it; and a few more precedents will oppose the obstacle of habit to any one after a while who shall endeavor to extend his term.