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... for other obstructions - but locusts are dangerous . If another person with many acres turned them all into a vast preserve for destructive game , and all game are not des- 2 LAW , CURRENCY , AND COLONIES . tructive of anything.
... for other obstructions - but locusts are dangerous . If another person with many acres turned them all into a vast preserve for destructive game , and all game are not des- 2 LAW , CURRENCY , AND COLONIES . tructive of anything.
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... turned of eleven years he had obtained , through Mr. Johnstone , a nomination to the mili- tary service of the East India Company . He was little more than twelve years of age when he left Burnfoot for London , on his way to the Indies ...
... turned of eleven years he had obtained , through Mr. Johnstone , a nomination to the mili- tary service of the East India Company . He was little more than twelve years of age when he left Burnfoot for London , on his way to the Indies ...
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... turned hither and thither hoping to evade his foes , and seeking the sanctuary which was not to be found . The dogs gathered madly around him , but we will throw a veil over his end , for in a few minutes more the gambling , gleesome ...
... turned hither and thither hoping to evade his foes , and seeking the sanctuary which was not to be found . The dogs gathered madly around him , but we will throw a veil over his end , for in a few minutes more the gambling , gleesome ...
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... turned . My stay at Hottentot - fig's Hollow was now drawing to a close ; yet I agreed to prolong it for a day or two until after the return of Timpson , who , with Charles Franklin , was going to escort the beautiful Zerlina to a ...
... turned . My stay at Hottentot - fig's Hollow was now drawing to a close ; yet I agreed to prolong it for a day or two until after the return of Timpson , who , with Charles Franklin , was going to escort the beautiful Zerlina to a ...
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... turning in his saddle . We all turned , also , to see the gallant desert steed struggling to free himself from his Kaffir captors . His master's voice had been heard and recognised , and the sagacious creature had broken loose from the ...
... turning in his saddle . We all turned , also , to see the gallant desert steed struggling to free himself from his Kaffir captors . His master's voice had been heard and recognised , and the sagacious creature had broken loose from the ...
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Page 99 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee ; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 141 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 335 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 17 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps...
Page 99 - And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 459 - Suppose, now, one of these engines to be going along a railroad at the rate of nine or ten miles an hour, and that a cow were to stray upon the line and get in the way of the engine ; would not that, think you, be a very awkward circumstance ? "
Page 273 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Page 207 - The Karens are a meek, peaceful race, simple and credulous, with many of the softer virtues, and few flagrant vices. Though greatly addicted to drunkenness, extremely filthy and indolent in their habits, their morals, in other respects, are superior to many more civilized races.
Page 427 - I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school, and give him a liberal training. I was, however, a poor man; and how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours...
Page 20 - It is the same ! — for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free ; Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow ; Nought may endure but Mutability.