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... body , ib .; His courage proved and defended , 548 ; Moral qualities ; Execution of the Duke d'- Enghein , 549 ; Fall of Paris ; Return from Elba , 550 ; Waterloo ; Death of Bonaparte , 551 ; Return of his remains from St. Helena , 552 ...
... body , ib .; His courage proved and defended , 548 ; Moral qualities ; Execution of the Duke d'- Enghein , 549 ; Fall of Paris ; Return from Elba , 550 ; Waterloo ; Death of Bonaparte , 551 ; Return of his remains from St. Helena , 552 ...
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... body calling on the President for information respecting the mission and its objects , Mr. Adams says : " I deem it proper to premise that these objects did not form the only , nor even the principal motive for my acceptance of the ...
... body calling on the President for information respecting the mission and its objects , Mr. Adams says : " I deem it proper to premise that these objects did not form the only , nor even the principal motive for my acceptance of the ...
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... body , and from the presence there of representatives of the United States . After explaining the whole matter , and his acceptance of the invitation in behalf of the United States - subject to the ad- vice and consent of the Senate ...
... body , and from the presence there of representatives of the United States . After explaining the whole matter , and his acceptance of the invitation in behalf of the United States - subject to the ad- vice and consent of the Senate ...
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... body . They were not pre- sent at its deliberations , but received communication of the proceedings as they occurred . Owing to the absence of the United States , no questions touching their inter- ifest that from the same cause the ...
... body . They were not pre- sent at its deliberations , but received communication of the proceedings as they occurred . Owing to the absence of the United States , no questions touching their inter- ifest that from the same cause the ...
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... body up to the limb , and bringing the end of the lariat several times around a small sapling , he secured it there . Then per- ceiving us for the first time , he broke into that infernal hideous laugh I had heard before , and pointing ...
... body up to the limb , and bringing the end of the lariat several times around a small sapling , he secured it there . Then per- ceiving us for the first time , he broke into that infernal hideous laugh I had heard before , and pointing ...
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Page 119 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Page 122 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 164 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Page 118 - Sweet, rouse yourself ; and the weak wanton Cupid Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold, And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air.
Page 124 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 186 - TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven.
Page 398 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Page 186 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Page 82 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Page 122 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.