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... favor and kindness shown to them by the temporal Regent of Thibet , in effecting their expulsion from the country . The whole narrative is extremely curious , and , in fact , gives a better insight into the real relations existing ...
... favor and kindness shown to them by the temporal Regent of Thibet , in effecting their expulsion from the country . The whole narrative is extremely curious , and , in fact , gives a better insight into the real relations existing ...
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... favor of the earth's being at present in a state of fusion . The form of the earth suggests the idea that it formerly existed in a fluid state , which fluidity may , with greater probability , be attributed to igneous than to aqueous ...
... favor of the earth's being at present in a state of fusion . The form of the earth suggests the idea that it formerly existed in a fluid state , which fluidity may , with greater probability , be attributed to igneous than to aqueous ...
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... favor of the common law right of authors , but we rest our judgment on the statutes respecting literary property , which we think entitled the plaintiff to maintain this action upon the evidence adduced on the trial : -the Court of ...
... favor of the common law right of authors , but we rest our judgment on the statutes respecting literary property , which we think entitled the plaintiff to maintain this action upon the evidence adduced on the trial : -the Court of ...
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... favor of the doctrine we adopt . One point still remains . Mr. Peacock argued that there is upon the evidence no valid assignment to Ricordi , there being no allegation that it was attested by two ney , written five years after the ...
... favor of the doctrine we adopt . One point still remains . Mr. Peacock argued that there is upon the evidence no valid assignment to Ricordi , there being no allegation that it was attested by two ney , written five years after the ...
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... favor of extempore preach- ing , and was unwilling to listen to the delivery of a written sermon . Patrick excused himself from a chaplaincy , " finding it very difficult to get a sermon without a book . " On one occasion the king asked ...
... favor of extempore preach- ing , and was unwilling to listen to the delivery of a written sermon . Patrick excused himself from a chaplaincy , " finding it very difficult to get a sermon without a book . " On one occasion the king asked ...
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Page 278 - ... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 37 - 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 187 - 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 133 - 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 336 - 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 173 - 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 27 - 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 278 - 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 91 - 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 336 - 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.