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" If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of? One says it has been wet, and another it has been windy, and another it has been warm. Who, among the whole chattering crowd,... "
Friends' Weekly Intelligencer - Page 404
1870
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 20; Volume 42

1860 - 712 pages
...attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with pur animal sensations. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity...we speak of? One says it has been wet, and another that it has been windy, and another it has been warm. Who among the whole chattering crowd can tell...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...accidents, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of 1 One says it has been wet, and another it has been windy, and another it has been warm. Who, among...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1862 - 592 pages
...accident, too common and too painful to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...speak of? One says it has been wet, and another it has been1 windy, and another it has been warm. Who, among the whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the...
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The Ackworth reading book, being selections from the best English authors in ...

Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...accidents, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...whole chattering crowd can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday ? Who...
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The wonders and beauties of Creation, portrayed by Buffon [and others].

Wonders - 1866 - 400 pages
...accidents, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...whole chattering crowd can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday? Who...
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Sanders' Rhetorical, Or, Union Sixth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of ...

Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...accidents, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. 7. If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday? Who...
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The Standard Fifth Reader for Public and Private Schools: Containing a ...

Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...accident, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness or a glance of admiration. If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of? 4. One Says it has been wet, and another it has been windy, and another it has been warm. Who, among...
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Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...accident, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness, or a glance of admiration. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday ? "Who...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 5

Henry Allon - 1847 - 594 pages
...eloquence, ' of the open sky.' We wish we had room for the whole ; but a sentence must suffice : — ' If, in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity,...says it has been wet, and another, it has been windy. Who, among the whole chattering crowd, can tell me of the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains...
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English Literature of Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1869 - 810 pages
...accidents, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness or a glance of admiration. If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity...whole chattering crowd can tell me of the forms and the precipices of the chain of tall white mountains that girded the horizon at noon yesterday? Who...
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