Putnam's Monthly, Volume 5G.P. Putnam & Company, 1855 |
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... less known and less observed is the third great movement which inter- rupts the apparent calm and peace of the ocean . For here , as everywhere , movement is life , as rest would be death . Without this - ever stirring acti- vity in its ...
... less known and less observed is the third great movement which inter- rupts the apparent calm and peace of the ocean . For here , as everywhere , movement is life , as rest would be death . Without this - ever stirring acti- vity in its ...
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... less millions of herrings leave the same waters , but where their home is , man has not yet found out . Only in the spring months there suddenly appear vast banks of this remarkable fish , two or three miles wide , and twenty to thirty ...
... less millions of herrings leave the same waters , but where their home is , man has not yet found out . Only in the spring months there suddenly appear vast banks of this remarkable fish , two or three miles wide , and twenty to thirty ...
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... less broad ribbons along the currents , and rising high above the dense crowd . Alaria send up long naked stems , which at last expand into a huge , unsightly leaf of more than fifty feet length . But the sea - forest boasts of still ...
... less broad ribbons along the currents , and rising high above the dense crowd . Alaria send up long naked stems , which at last expand into a huge , unsightly leaf of more than fifty feet length . But the sea - forest boasts of still ...
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... less striking or less permanent ? We count not the stars in heaven , we see even but a small num- ber of all , and yet the starry sky has never failed to lift up the mind of man to his Maker . So with the ocean . His way is in the sea ...
... less striking or less permanent ? We count not the stars in heaven , we see even but a small num- ber of all , and yet the starry sky has never failed to lift up the mind of man to his Maker . So with the ocean . His way is in the sea ...
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... less absurd than his idea of " les Washington et les Jefferson " as familles princières . That there are no families of the Washingtons and Jeffersons " may be passed over , but who would ever dream of marrying into the family of the ...
... less absurd than his idea of " les Washington et les Jefferson " as familles princières . That there are no families of the Washingtons and Jeffersons " may be passed over , but who would ever dream of marrying into the family of the ...
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Page 468 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? . . . When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 574 - White are his shoulders and white his crest. Hear him call in his merry note: Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink ; Look, what a nice new coat is mine, Sure there was never a bird so fine. Chee, chee, chee. 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,...
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 575 - Soon as the little ones chip the shell, Six wide mouths are open for food; Robert of Lincoln bestirs him well, Gathering seeds for the hungry brood. Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; This new life is likely to be Hard for a gay young fellow like me. Chee, chee, chee.
Page 575 - 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 565 - 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 469 - 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 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 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 wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 121 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.