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... Nature just as easily , except for a little more trouble in adjusting the position and managing the light . So easy is it to reproduce the faces that we love to look upon ; so sim- ple is that marvellous work by which we preserve the ...
... Nature just as easily , except for a little more trouble in adjusting the position and managing the light . So easy is it to reproduce the faces that we love to look upon ; so sim- ple is that marvellous work by which we preserve the ...
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... Nature . Thus , the great tree , the " Grizzly Giant , " of Mariposa , is shown in two admirable views ; the mighty precipice of El Capitan , more than three thousand feet in precipitous height , - the three conical hill - tops of Yo ...
... Nature . Thus , the great tree , the " Grizzly Giant , " of Mariposa , is shown in two admirable views ; the mighty precipice of El Capitan , more than three thousand feet in precipitous height , - the three conical hill - tops of Yo ...
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... Nature are no longer intensi- fied by the outrages of Art . The sitters who throng the photogra- pher's establishment are a curious study . They are of all ages , from the babe in arms to the old wrinkled patriarchs and dames whose ...
... Nature are no longer intensi- fied by the outrages of Art . The sitters who throng the photogra- pher's establishment are a curious study . They are of all ages , from the babe in arms to the old wrinkled patriarchs and dames whose ...
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... nature made itself known to us . Another point which must have struck everybody who has studied photographic portraits is the family likeness that shows itself throughout a whole wide connection . We notice it more readily than in life ...
... nature made itself known to us . Another point which must have struck everybody who has studied photographic portraits is the family likeness that shows itself throughout a whole wide connection . We notice it more readily than in life ...
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... Nature's sternest painter , yet the best ' and that gives us , even without the crim- son coloring which flows over the recent picture , some conception of what a re- pulsive , brutal , sickening , hideous thing it is , this dashing ...
... Nature's sternest painter , yet the best ' and that gives us , even without the crim- son coloring which flows over the recent picture , some conception of what a re- pulsive , brutal , sickening , hideous thing it is , this dashing ...
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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...