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... hundred dollars apiece , they could not count it ; all they knew was that one man's pile of silver was larger than another's . The Indians assembled here have been paid fifty thousand dol 1842. ] 3 Letters from the Indian Country .
... hundred dollars apiece , they could not count it ; all they knew was that one man's pile of silver was larger than another's . The Indians assembled here have been paid fifty thousand dol 1842. ] 3 Letters from the Indian Country .
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... knew his own business best , it was very possible that there was something in this man not apparent to others , that made him useful in his station . Perhaps a cat - like vigilance did n't come amiss in a place where straggling ...
... knew his own business best , it was very possible that there was something in this man not apparent to others , that made him useful in his station . Perhaps a cat - like vigilance did n't come amiss in a place where straggling ...
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... knew , with that of the unknown . It was given and it was mine to fulfil it . After com- posing the limbs of the dead , I prepared to dig a grave where he desired me , beneath the rose - bush . I called to the dog , but vain were my ...
... knew , with that of the unknown . It was given and it was mine to fulfil it . After com- posing the limbs of the dead , I prepared to dig a grave where he desired me , beneath the rose - bush . I called to the dog , but vain were my ...
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... knew the rocks , the currents , the dangerous capes , the hidden shoals , from the outlets of the Nile to the Palus Mootis ; from the Adriatic to the straits of Hercules . He had even traversed the sea of Erithæum and the outer ocean ...
... knew the rocks , the currents , the dangerous capes , the hidden shoals , from the outlets of the Nile to the Palus Mootis ; from the Adriatic to the straits of Hercules . He had even traversed the sea of Erithæum and the outer ocean ...
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... knew that the combat was against the Latin galleys , so long as the gigantic ships of the Egyptian fleet remained immovable at the entrance of the gulf . His aim was then to provoke the enemy , and to lure him upon the deep waters . A ...
... knew that the combat was against the Latin galleys , so long as the gigantic ships of the Egyptian fleet remained immovable at the entrance of the gulf . His aim was then to provoke the enemy , and to lure him upon the deep waters . A ...
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Page 197 - doth affect A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb Quite from his nature. ' He cannot flatter, he ! An honest mind, and plain — he must speak truth : An ' if they take it, so ; if not, he 's plain !
Page 201 - the lost Friend still mysteriously here, even as we are here, mysteriously, with GOD ? Know of a truth that only the Time-shadows have perished or are perishable ; that the real Being of whatever was, and whatever is, and whatever will be, is even now and for ever!
Page 203 - all, were it only a withered leaf, works together with all; is borne forward on the bottomless shoreless flood of Action, and lives through perpetual metamorphoses. The withered leaf is not dead and lost; there are forces in it and around it, though working in
Page 498 - avenues, thou the earth-blinded, summonest both Past and Future, and communest with them, though as yet darkly, and with mute beckonings. The curtains of Yesterday drop down, the curtains of To-morrow roll up ; but yesterday and to-morrow both are.
Page 591 - on this side them.' And yet, GOD deliver us from pinching poverty ; and grant that, having a competency, we may be content and thankful ! Let us not repine, or so much, as think the gifts of GOD
Page 588 - content with a fit of happiness ; and surely it is not a melancholy conceit to think we are all asleep in this world, and that the conceits of this life are as mere
Page 95 - the rushing off of its thousand mills, like the boom of an Atlantic tide ; ten thousand times ten thousand spools and spindles all set humming there ? It is perhaps, if thou knew it well, sublime as a Niagara, or more so.
Page 299 - Nature! art thou not the Living Garment of God? O Heavens! is it in very deed HE then that ever speaks through thee ; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and
Page 75 - I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness.
Page 203 - As I rode through the Schwarzwald, I said to myself: ' That little fire which glows star-like across the dark-growing moor, where the sooty smith bends over his anvil, is it a detached, separated speck,