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... question connected with our theme , we may ask : -Was , then , Napoleon not the greatest man of all history ? Was he not , at least , the greatest man of modern times , or of the last five centuries ? Not only many French , but even ...
... question connected with our theme , we may ask : -Was , then , Napoleon not the greatest man of all history ? Was he not , at least , the greatest man of modern times , or of the last five centuries ? Not only many French , but even ...
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... question , there are many which are evidently libels , payed for by the ene- mies of the revolution and the empire . There are others - works of passion , dictated by disappointment and spite . Those of the writers of St. Helena ...
... question , there are many which are evidently libels , payed for by the ene- mies of the revolution and the empire . There are others - works of passion , dictated by disappointment and spite . Those of the writers of St. Helena ...
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... question . And we would strengthen our position as to the importance of first names , by quoting Sterne's remark , that no one has ever thought of calling a child after Judas Iscariot . Some come pretty near it when they select the name ...
... question . And we would strengthen our position as to the importance of first names , by quoting Sterne's remark , that no one has ever thought of calling a child after Judas Iscariot . Some come pretty near it when they select the name ...
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... question to one of the warriors engaged ( who had not happened to see the Eng- lish flag hauled down ) whether the Serapis had struck to the Richard , or the Richard to the Serapis . Nay , while the Richard's officer was still amicably ...
... question to one of the warriors engaged ( who had not happened to see the Eng- lish flag hauled down ) whether the Serapis had struck to the Richard , or the Richard to the Serapis . Nay , while the Richard's officer was still amicably ...
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... question was a forlorn sort of hope ; but it was his sole one , and must therefore be tried . Mixing in again for a while with the general watch , he at last goes on the fore- castle among the sheet - anchor - men there , at present ...
... question was a forlorn sort of hope ; but it was his sole one , and must therefore be tried . Mixing in again for a while with the general watch , he at last goes on the fore- castle among the sheet - anchor - men there , at present ...
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Page 296 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
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 467 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath ; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Page 280 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 10 - His way is in the sea, and His path in the great waters, and His footsteps are not known.
Page 343 - Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Page 561 - 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 298 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 571 - Modest and shy as a nun is she ; One weak chirp is her only note. Braggart and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat: Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; Never was I afraid of man; Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can ! Chee, chee, chee.
Page 120 - THE splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.