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... give me credit for the tragic ele- ment , " she continued , under her breath , as Mr. Raleigh quietly passed her . " That is old style . To be sure , I might as well die there as in the swamps of Florida . Purcell is ordered to Florida ...
... give me credit for the tragic ele- ment , " she continued , under her breath , as Mr. Raleigh quietly passed her . " That is old style . To be sure , I might as well die there as in the swamps of Florida . Purcell is ordered to Florida ...
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... give his own guess at time and distance . It is easy , therefore , to trace the ori- gin of these exaggerations . Those old navigators , for instance , who saw SO many fine things which were not to be seen , how should they help ...
... give his own guess at time and distance . It is easy , therefore , to trace the ori- gin of these exaggerations . Those old navigators , for instance , who saw SO many fine things which were not to be seen , how should they help ...
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... give it as their opinion , that the European , once accli- mated , bears the heat of the African des- erts better than the native negro . " These Christians are devils , " say the Arabs ; " they can endure both cold and heat . " What ...
... give it as their opinion , that the European , once accli- mated , bears the heat of the African des- erts better than the native negro . " These Christians are devils , " say the Arabs ; " they can endure both cold and heat . " What ...
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... give the same results in respect to physical strength . Early travellers among our Indians , as Hearne and Mackenzie , and early missionaries to the South - Sea Isl- ands , as Ellis , report athletic contests in which the natives could ...
... give the same results in respect to physical strength . Early travellers among our Indians , as Hearne and Mackenzie , and early missionaries to the South - Sea Isl- ands , as Ellis , report athletic contests in which the natives could ...
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... give it up . But from the beginning of accu- rate statistics we know that the duration of life in any nation is a fair index of its progress in civilization . Quetelet gives statistics , more or less reliable , from ev- ery nation of ...
... give it up . But from the beginning of accu- rate statistics we know that the duration of life in any nation is a fair index of its progress in civilization . Quetelet gives statistics , more or less reliable , from ev- ery nation of ...
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Page 310 - I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me : To him my tale I teach.
Page 657 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration...
Page 466 - And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Page 29 - Of the lonely belfry and the dead; For suddenly all his thoughts are bent On a shadowy something far away. Where the river widens to meet the bay, A line of black that bends and floats On the rising tide, like a bridge of boats.
Page 28 - LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April in Seventy-five: Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.
Page 30 - It was two by the village clock When he came to the bridge in Concord town. He heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of birds among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze Blowing over the meadows brown.
Page 30 - It was one by the village clock When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows...
Page 28 - and with muffled oar Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay, Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war ; A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified By its own reflection in the tide.
Page 30 - You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British Regulars fired and fled, — How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farmyard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load.
Page 29 - A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet: That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed in his flight Kindled the land into flame with its heat.