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... tion or conscious existence . The Aryan became aware of his relationship to the men and women around him , the family spirit grew up , and he bequeathed to us the names of the closest ties of kinship - father , mother , brother , sister ...
... tion or conscious existence . The Aryan became aware of his relationship to the men and women around him , the family spirit grew up , and he bequeathed to us the names of the closest ties of kinship - father , mother , brother , sister ...
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... tion , which is the oldest specimen of literary English ( written about A.D. 660 ) that we possess , we find the expression " heben til hrofe " ( with heaven for roof ) , in which the word til is Scandinavian . The ordinary Low German ...
... tion , which is the oldest specimen of literary English ( written about A.D. 660 ) that we possess , we find the expression " heben til hrofe " ( with heaven for roof ) , in which the word til is Scandinavian . The ordinary Low German ...
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... tion . So great was the influence exercised upon the Germanic mind by these Romans that even in the old Anglian home of the English , whither the tide of Roman conquest had not reached , old helmets and armour have been found modelled ...
... tion . So great was the influence exercised upon the Germanic mind by these Romans that even in the old Anglian home of the English , whither the tide of Roman conquest had not reached , old helmets and armour have been found modelled ...
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... tion ; in the south a high state of culture and civilisation was attained . But the Latin language , culture , and Christianity were swept away in the turmoils and in- vasions of the fifth century . The Britons who were driven to Wales ...
... tion ; in the south a high state of culture and civilisation was attained . But the Latin language , culture , and Christianity were swept away in the turmoils and in- vasions of the fifth century . The Britons who were driven to Wales ...
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... tion 8 ) to Spenser's deliberately archaic style . But he is not really hard to under- stand ; and in the passage given above there is little that needs explanation And did himself to battaile ready dight " means And himself did make ...
... tion 8 ) to Spenser's deliberately archaic style . But he is not really hard to under- stand ; and in the passage given above there is little that needs explanation And did himself to battaile ready dight " means And himself did make ...
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Popular passages
Page 314 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said : " The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 407 - Satan except, none higher sat, with grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin : sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 313 - Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
Page 339 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And, nightly to the list'ning earth, Repeats the story of her birth ; While all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 344 - And galloped off with all his might, As he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and away Went Gilpin's hat and wig: He lost them sooner than at first, For why? — they were too big. Now...
Page 335 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 313 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
Page 391 - This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Page 349 - When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under ; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 407 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.