American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 51Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis 1858 |
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... close proximity to the surgeon's nose , dolorously exclaiming as he * OUR doctor had , evidently , read QUEVEDO : Salió de la carcel con tanta honra , que le acompañaron docientos Cardenales , sino que á ninguno llamavan Señoria . ' did ...
... close proximity to the surgeon's nose , dolorously exclaiming as he * OUR doctor had , evidently , read QUEVEDO : Salió de la carcel con tanta honra , que le acompañaron docientos Cardenales , sino que á ninguno llamavan Señoria . ' did ...
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... close under the lee , and by breakfast - time , we had let go both anchors off the castle , ' whereat we sick reefers were exceedingly rejoiced , as our kind - hearted captain had promised , some days before , to let us take a run to ...
... close under the lee , and by breakfast - time , we had let go both anchors off the castle , ' whereat we sick reefers were exceedingly rejoiced , as our kind - hearted captain had promised , some days before , to let us take a run to ...
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... close . The council - circle was not yet broken . Foremost there in the ring , were hoary chiefs , surrounded by their grim , scarred warriors , listening with solemn attention to the words of their New Father , ' and , in turn , rising ...
... close . The council - circle was not yet broken . Foremost there in the ring , were hoary chiefs , surrounded by their grim , scarred warriors , listening with solemn attention to the words of their New Father , ' and , in turn , rising ...
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... close fol- lowed by my mother . Then was I left alone in all the world , penniless , homeless , fatherless , and worst of all and hardest to bear , motherless ! GOD indeed have pity on him whose bursting manhood - leaves know not a ...
... close fol- lowed by my mother . Then was I left alone in all the world , penniless , homeless , fatherless , and worst of all and hardest to bear , motherless ! GOD indeed have pity on him whose bursting manhood - leaves know not a ...
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... close , I felt as though I possessed wealth enough to win the favor of my uncle John . I cannot paint to you the tremulous anxiety of that homeward voyage . How the great waves took up our giant ship as though it were a cradle , and ...
... close , I felt as though I possessed wealth enough to win the favor of my uncle John . I cannot paint to you the tremulous anxiety of that homeward voyage . How the great waves took up our giant ship as though it were a cradle , and ...
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Page 548 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 411 - Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of Hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
Page 165 - Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
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Page 205 - And is there nothing yet unsaid, Before the change appears? Remember, all their gifts have fled With those dissolving years.