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... miles , over bad roads , and by such imperfect waterways as could be navigated by vessels then in use . The Americans were farther from their base of supplies than the English . The ocean could be more easily crossed than the distance ...
... miles , over bad roads , and by such imperfect waterways as could be navigated by vessels then in use . The Americans were farther from their base of supplies than the English . The ocean could be more easily crossed than the distance ...
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... mile toward the lake , and having from six to ten feet of water over it . Why the enemy did not improve its opportunity and attack the fleet while crossing this bar has never been satisfac- torily explained . When Captain Perry , on the ...
... mile toward the lake , and having from six to ten feet of water over it . Why the enemy did not improve its opportunity and attack the fleet while crossing this bar has never been satisfac- torily explained . When Captain Perry , on the ...
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... miles in diameter , revolving in its orbit in a trifle less than twelve hours - its " year ! " Its distance from Jupiter's surface cannot exceed 70,000 miles . The four first - dis- covered satellites range in distance from 262,000 to ...
... miles in diameter , revolving in its orbit in a trifle less than twelve hours - its " year ! " Its distance from Jupiter's surface cannot exceed 70,000 miles . The four first - dis- covered satellites range in distance from 262,000 to ...
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... miles . It will there- fore be perceived that when Jupiter and the earth are on the same side of the sun , and in line with it , -Jupiter's " opposi- tion , " their distance from each other is considerably less than 400,000,000 miles ...
... miles . It will there- fore be perceived that when Jupiter and the earth are on the same side of the sun , and in line with it , -Jupiter's " opposi- tion , " their distance from each other is considerably less than 400,000,000 miles ...
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... miles to the seaport of Monnickendam . Tradition says that a wandering band of monks first settled this place , setting up a temporary taber- nacle on Marken , six miles away , naming the waters that rolled between , " Monks ' Sea ...
... miles to the seaport of Monnickendam . Tradition says that a wandering band of monks first settled this place , setting up a temporary taber- nacle on Marken , six miles away , naming the waters that rolled between , " Monks ' Sea ...
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Page 362 - What! do I fear myself? there's none else by Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here? No. Yes; I am: Then fly: what! from myself? Great reason why; Lest I revenge. What! myself upon myself? Alack! I love myself. Wherefore? for any good That I myself have done unto myself? O! no: alas! I rather hate myself For hateful deeds committed by myself.
Page 9 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there anything whereof it may be said, "See, this is new"? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Page 145 - THERE is NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.
Page 97 - I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.
Page 362 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Page 356 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Page 276 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Page 145 - There is no wealth but life — -life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings...
Page 321 - Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot or leave it bare, When he might build him a proud temple there A name, that long shall hallow all its space, And be each purer soul's high...
Page 330 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.