American Biography, Брой 161Harper & Brothers, 1846 |
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... thought proper to make chiefly biographical . They have gradually swelled much beyond his ori- ginal design ; but it would have been more easy to make them larger than smaller . They have been prepared with much care , and it is hoped ...
... thought proper to make chiefly biographical . They have gradually swelled much beyond his ori- ginal design ; but it would have been more easy to make them larger than smaller . They have been prepared with much care , and it is hoped ...
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... thought to be the bulwark of freedom and good government : he was fully persuaded that it had been wisely and purely administered ; and in his conversation , as well as in several of his public performances , mani- fested a conviction ...
... thought to be the bulwark of freedom and good government : he was fully persuaded that it had been wisely and purely administered ; and in his conversation , as well as in several of his public performances , mani- fested a conviction ...
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... a judicious and seasonable choice of subjects , pertinacity in thought , clear- ness in method , and warmth in application ; if * The American Biography . language plain and perspicuous , polished and nervous ; if xxii LIFE AND CHARACTER.
... a judicious and seasonable choice of subjects , pertinacity in thought , clear- ness in method , and warmth in application ; if * The American Biography . language plain and perspicuous , polished and nervous ; if xxii LIFE AND CHARACTER.
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... thought that the voyages of the Phoenicians and He- brews to Ophir , in the time of Solomon , were nothing more nor less than circumnavi- gations of Africa . * But , leaving these , for the present , in the region of conjecture , the ...
... thought that the voyages of the Phoenicians and He- brews to Ophir , in the time of Solomon , were nothing more nor less than circumnavi- gations of Africa . * But , leaving these , for the present , in the region of conjecture , the ...
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... thought practicable . The mother of Sataspes thought so , or she would not have proposed it ; and Xerxes thought so , or he would not have disbelieved the story of the ship being stop- ped ; by which expression was meant that the sea ...
... thought practicable . The mother of Sataspes thought so , or she would not have proposed it ; and Xerxes thought so , or he would not have disbelieved the story of the ship being stop- ped ; by which expression was meant that the sea ...
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Страница 368 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Страница 323 - I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all.
Страница 160 - ... were rather high, his eyes light gray, and apt to enkindle ; his whole countenance had an air of authority. His hair, in his youthful days, was of a light color ; but care and trouble, according to Las Casas, soon turned it gray, and at thirty years of age it was quite white.
Страница 323 - My heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the queen goes away so far off, whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison, all alone.
Страница 321 - Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay, Within that temple where the vestal flame Was wont to burn; and passing by that way To see that buried dust of living fame, Whose tomb fair Love and fairer Virtue kept, All suddenly I saw the...
Страница 36 - Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. "They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir : they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee. Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars ; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
Страница 328 - ... short and green, and in divers parts groves of trees by themselves, as if they had been by all the art and labour in the world so made of purpose; and still as we rowed, the deer came down feeding by the water's side as if they had been used to a keeper's call.
Страница 356 - As for me, I am no more yours, nor you mine. Death hath cut us asunder, and God hath divided me from the world, and you from me.
Страница 355 - You shall receive, my dear wife, my last words, in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not with my...
Страница 356 - Love God, and begin betimes to repose yourself on him ; and therein shall you find true and lasting riches, and endless comfort. For the rest, when you have travailed, and wearied your thoughts over all sorts of worldly cogitation, you shall but sit down by sorrow in the end.