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... arms to the old wrinkled patriarchs and dames whose smiles have as many furrows as an ancient elm has rings that count its summers . The sun is a Rembrandt in his way , and loves to track all the lines in these old splintered faces . A ...
... arms to the old wrinkled patriarchs and dames whose smiles have as many furrows as an ancient elm has rings that count its summers . The sun is a Rembrandt in his way , and loves to track all the lines in these old splintered faces . A ...
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... arms of all the States , easily made out , and well finished ; with good por- traits of all the Presidents , down to a re- cent date . Any person familiar with the faces of the Presidents would recognize any one of these portraits in a ...
... arms of all the States , easily made out , and well finished ; with good por- traits of all the Presidents , down to a re- cent date . Any person familiar with the faces of the Presidents would recognize any one of these portraits in a ...
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... arms , and set him down with his head the other way , " — and immediately turn- ed him deftly in a corner about half as large as the wagon . - The next lane we came to was the right one , and being narrow , rocky , and rough , we left ...
... arms , and set him down with his head the other way , " — and immediately turn- ed him deftly in a corner about half as large as the wagon . - The next lane we came to was the right one , and being narrow , rocky , and rough , we left ...
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... arm , or at least put her shoulder out of joint . If he did , I had fully de- termined in my own mind to hasten to her assistance and shame her to death with delicate and assiduous kindness . But fate lingered like all the rest of us ...
... arm , or at least put her shoulder out of joint . If he did , I had fully de- termined in my own mind to hasten to her assistance and shame her to death with delicate and assiduous kindness . But fate lingered like all the rest of us ...
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... arms of France . Then , once more em- barked , they held their course north- ward , happy in that benign decree which locks from mortal eyes the secrets of the future . Next they anchored near Fernandina , and to a neighboring river ...
... arms of France . Then , once more em- barked , they held their course north- ward , happy in that benign decree which locks from mortal eyes the secrets of the future . Next they anchored near Fernandina , and to a neighboring river ...
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Page 493 - It shivered the window, pane and sash; It rent the banner with seam and gash. Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. ' Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,
Page 55 - For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Page 493 - Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag," she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word; "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!
Page 128 - But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Page 656 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Page 666 - But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Page 609 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides, Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe, And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 508 - America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. ... ARTICLE 1. The style of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America.
Page 628 - Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
Page 118 - We think it does not. If reference be had to its use, in the common affairs of the world, or in approved authors, we find that it frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient, or useful, or essential to another. To...