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Page 11
... appears to have been the subject of a remarkable develop- ment between 1880 and 1890 , the num- ber of barnyard fowl having increased within that period from 102,272,135 to 258,871,125 , other poultry from 23,235,187 to 26,738,315 , and ...
... appears to have been the subject of a remarkable develop- ment between 1880 and 1890 , the num- ber of barnyard fowl having increased within that period from 102,272,135 to 258,871,125 , other poultry from 23,235,187 to 26,738,315 , and ...
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... appears from Jackson's observa- tions . The wonderful journey of the Fram has made , at the same time , short work of all the hypotheses of wide lands ex- tending towards the pole from its Euras- ian side . The Franz Joseph Land is only ...
... appears from Jackson's observa- tions . The wonderful journey of the Fram has made , at the same time , short work of all the hypotheses of wide lands ex- tending towards the pole from its Euras- ian side . The Franz Joseph Land is only ...
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... appears ) on the younger side ; chiefly an amused attrac- tion on the other . The difference in feel- ing is very distinct to Mr. Steevens . " We may call this country daughter , but it does not call us mother , " he says . And perhaps ...
... appears ) on the younger side ; chiefly an amused attrac- tion on the other . The difference in feel- ing is very distinct to Mr. Steevens . " We may call this country daughter , but it does not call us mother , " he says . And perhaps ...
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... appear , like them , simply boxes of win- dows . Who would suppose that mere lumps of iron and bricks and mortar could be sublime ? Yet these are sublime and almost awful . You have awakened , like Gulliver , in a land of giants - a ...
... appear , like them , simply boxes of win- dows . Who would suppose that mere lumps of iron and bricks and mortar could be sublime ? Yet these are sublime and almost awful . You have awakened , like Gulliver , in a land of giants - a ...
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... appears to have had one important effect on the universities , namely , to make them more democratic and popular than most other colleges that trace their beginnings to the Middle Ages . Without endowments and without property , but ...
... appears to have had one important effect on the universities , namely , to make them more democratic and popular than most other colleges that trace their beginnings to the Middle Ages . Without endowments and without property , but ...
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Page 320 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 315 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 278 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 280 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 58 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 196 - Now, I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife. I need not have her for either. I can just leave her alone.
Page 317 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 349 - And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet 'By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.
Page 279 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 346 - Let us, then, unite to put an end to a system which has been proved to be the blight of commerce, the bane of agriculture, the source of bitter divisions among classes, the cause of penury, fever, mortality, and crime among the people.