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... MOUNTAIN WINDS .. 164 MINING VANITIES . 167 MORMON'S WIFE . 641 . NEGRO MINSTRELSY - ANCIENT AND MODERN .. 72 NATIONAL DEFENCE .. 122 NATURE IN MOTION . 132 , 279 NOON AND MORNING . 649 NOTES ON PROPER NAMES . 323 NEW ENGLAND SPRING ...
... MOUNTAIN WINDS .. 164 MINING VANITIES . 167 MORMON'S WIFE . 641 . NEGRO MINSTRELSY - ANCIENT AND MODERN .. 72 NATIONAL DEFENCE .. 122 NATURE IN MOTION . 132 , 279 NOON AND MORNING . 649 NOTES ON PROPER NAMES . 323 NEW ENGLAND SPRING ...
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... mountains in brook and creek , until they grow to mighty rivers , thundering over gigantic rocks , leap fearlessly down lofty precipices , or gently rolling their mighty masses along the inclined planes of lowlands , become man's ...
... mountains in brook and creek , until they grow to mighty rivers , thundering over gigantic rocks , leap fearlessly down lofty precipices , or gently rolling their mighty masses along the inclined planes of lowlands , become man's ...
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... mountain high up into huge dark masses of foam- ing cascades , and then drives them steadily , resistlessly upwards ... mountains , which raise their lofty peaks up to his ship's bottom , and the fiery volcanoes that earthquakes have ...
... mountain high up into huge dark masses of foam- ing cascades , and then drives them steadily , resistlessly upwards ... mountains , which raise their lofty peaks up to his ship's bottom , and the fiery volcanoes that earthquakes have ...
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... mountains rise in cliffs and reefs , or expand upwards , in broad , fertile islands . Nor can we any longer sustain the an- cient faith in the stability of the " terra firma , " as contrasted with the ever- changing nature of the sea ...
... mountains rise in cliffs and reefs , or expand upwards , in broad , fertile islands . Nor can we any longer sustain the an- cient faith in the stability of the " terra firma , " as contrasted with the ever- changing nature of the sea ...
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... mountains , the water is alive with countless hosts of diminutive , phosphoric creatures , which , when at- tracted to the surface , convert every wave into a crest of light , and the wide ocean into a sea of fire . It is well known ...
... mountains , the water is alive with countless hosts of diminutive , phosphoric creatures , which , when at- tracted to the surface , convert every wave into a crest of light , and the wide ocean into a sea of fire . It is well known ...
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Page 566 - Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, — if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweet draught, and, if hungry, ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
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Page 297 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised...
Page 576 - Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife, Pretty and quiet with plain brown wings, Passing at home a patient life, Broods in the grass while her husband sings : " Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink ; Brood, kind creature, you need not fear Thieves and robbers while I am here. Chee, chee, chee!
Page 567 - I was anxiously looking around for the river, one of them called out, geo affili (see the water), and looking forwards, I saw with infinite pleasure the great object of my mission — the long sought for majestic Niger, glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward.
Page 283 - 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.
Page 283 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...