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... Russia , Austria , and Prussia , Sway of Russia , Impending Disaster , Net Results of 1848 , English - Are they musical ? Egypt , Southern Gates of , • 172 gation of Christianity , Neander , Recollections of , New Books ,. 419 North ...
... Russia , Austria , and Prussia , Sway of Russia , Impending Disaster , Net Results of 1848 , English - Are they musical ? Egypt , Southern Gates of , • 172 gation of Christianity , Neander , Recollections of , New Books ,. 419 North ...
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... Russia , Austria , and Prussia , Sway of Russia , Impending Disaster , Net Results of 1848 , English - Are they musical ? Egypt , Southern Gates of , Neander , Recollections of , 172 New Books ,. 419 North , James , Naples , Mr ...
... Russia , Austria , and Prussia , Sway of Russia , Impending Disaster , Net Results of 1848 , English - Are they musical ? Egypt , Southern Gates of , Neander , Recollections of , 172 New Books ,. 419 North , James , Naples , Mr ...
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... Russia , is incredible on the face of it . Solvuntur risu tabulæ . - This incident was of more use to the missionaries , and relieved them more completely from the cloud which had hung over them , than anything else that could have oc ...
... Russia , is incredible on the face of it . Solvuntur risu tabulæ . - This incident was of more use to the missionaries , and relieved them more completely from the cloud which had hung over them , than anything else that could have oc ...
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... Russia to be conducted by a roundabout course from Kiachta to Peking , doomed our poor missionaries to travail from Lhassa through alpine passes to the frontier of China , and from thence to Canton - a weary course of about eight months ...
... Russia to be conducted by a roundabout course from Kiachta to Peking , doomed our poor missionaries to travail from Lhassa through alpine passes to the frontier of China , and from thence to Canton - a weary course of about eight months ...
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... Russia by her own activity . The assistance which she were on the side of Austria . More recently a rendered to Austria was not , indeed , purely disin- reconciliation appears to have been effected , which terested , because the Russian ...
... Russia by her own activity . The assistance which she were on the side of Austria . More recently a rendered to Austria was not , indeed , purely disin- reconciliation appears to have been effected , which terested , because the Russian ...
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Page 276 - ... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 35 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 185 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 131 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 334 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Page 171 - Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures, love, and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Page 25 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Page 276 - 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...
Page 89 - The tremendous sea itself, when I could find sufficient pause to look at it, in the agitation of the blinding wind, the flying stones and sand, and the awful noise, confounded me. As the high watery walls came rolling in, and, at their highest, tumbled into surf, they looked as if the least would engulf the town.
Page 334 - Thou faery voyager ! that dost float In such clear water, that thy boat May rather seem To brood on air than on an earthly stream ; Suspended in a stream as clear as sky, Where earth and heaven do make one imagery; 0 blessed vision ! happy child ! Thou art so exquisitely wild, 1 think of thee with many fears For what may be thy lot in future years.