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things , should be employed by the Deity to excite and direct them , where their intellect cannot , in their ... thing else but the manifestation without of that same wisdom which directs , in the interior of our body , all our ...
things , should be employed by the Deity to excite and direct them , where their intellect cannot , in their ... thing else but the manifestation without of that same wisdom which directs , in the interior of our body , all our ...
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... thing that has never been . The veteran's journal is seldom obtruded upon the public , and the taste of writers as well as readers affects literary charms of quite a differ- ent sort . Captain Kincaid , however , need not be afraid of ...
... thing that has never been . The veteran's journal is seldom obtruded upon the public , and the taste of writers as well as readers affects literary charms of quite a differ- ent sort . Captain Kincaid , however , need not be afraid of ...
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... thing in reason , and pursue it steadily , he would finally attain it , I resolved to adhere to such an animating maxim , and fixing my heart on a captain's commission , I pursued it steadily , and for the encouragement of youth at all ...
... thing in reason , and pursue it steadily , he would finally attain it , I resolved to adhere to such an animating maxim , and fixing my heart on a captain's commission , I pursued it steadily , and for the encouragement of youth at all ...
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... thing else , and in fact there is nothing in the heroics that I have not seen her do . See her again when she descends into herself , and it is very odd if I have not seen her there too ! for no man has ever been so often or so deep in ...
... thing else , and in fact there is nothing in the heroics that I have not seen her do . See her again when she descends into herself , and it is very odd if I have not seen her there too ! for no man has ever been so often or so deep in ...
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... thing that required the officers ' attention was their necessaries , for as money was scarce , they were liable to be bartered for strong waters . 66 On service , as every where else , there is a time for all things , but the time there ...
... thing that required the officers ' attention was their necessaries , for as money was scarce , they were liable to be bartered for strong waters . 66 On service , as every where else , there is a time for all things , but the time there ...
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Page 18 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Page 8 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Page 115 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 112 - To paint fair Nature, by divine command Her magic pencil in his glowing hand, A Shakspeare rose; then, to expand his fame Wide o'er this breathing world, a Garrick came. Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew, The Actor's genius bade them breathe anew; Though, like the bard himself, in night they lay, Immortal Garrick...
Page 405 - There are at the present time, two great nations in the world which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans.
Page 316 - Picton, his Majesty has sustained the loss of an officer who has frequently distinguished himself in his service, and he fell gloriously leading his division to a charge with bayonets, by which one of the most serious attacks made by the enemy on our position was defeated.
Page 405 - Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.
Page 534 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 113 - It seemed to embody and realise conceptions which had hitherto assumed no distinct shape. But dearly do we pay all our life after for this juvenile pleasure, this sense of distinctness. When the novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realising an idea, we have only materialised and brought down a fine vision to the standard of flesh and blood.
Page 222 - I learned grammar when I was a private soldier on the pay of sixpence a day. The edge of my berth, or that of the guard-bed, was my seat to study in ; my knapsack was my bookcase ; a bit of board, lying on my lap, was my writing-table ; and the task did not demand any thing like a year of my life.