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" His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : " Come one, come all ! This rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. "
Essentials of English Grammar: For the Use of Schools - Page 11
by William Dwight Whitney - 1877 - 276 pages
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Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 6: 1901-2. Assistant Editor, Barbara S. Kraft

Booker T Washington, Louis R Harlan - 1977 - 748 pages
...not far from Jackson. Wherever they can be placed, merit shall be the test with me. "Come one come all, This rock shall fly, From its firm base, as soon as I." About the Judgeship. I fully concur in your suggestions. I have cause, however, to suspect that this...
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The Lincoln Home: Lincoln Home National Historic Site ..., Volume 2, Issue 2

Katherine Menz - 1990 - 462 pages
...little legs wide apart, was wielding a fence paling in lieu of a lance and proclaiming in a loud voice, 'this rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I.' Mary, bubbling with laughter, called out, 'Grammercy, brave Knights. 37 Pray be more merciful than...
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A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851

Henry David Thoreau - 1993 - 372 pages
...the rock also at your back and as in the case of King James and Roderick Dhu can say come one come all This rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I. Such uttered or not is the strength of your sentence. Sentences in which their is no strain. A fluttering...
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Goodness Personified: The Emergence of Gifted Children

Leslie Margolin - 212 pages
...group of tormenting boys at arm's length," shouting these lines from Sir Walter Scott: Come one, come all. This rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I. Confirming the early appearance of every virtue, in his first year at boarding school, at the age of...
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Genius: The Natural History of Creativity

H. J. Eysenck - 1995 - 360 pages
...he was found holding a group of tormenting boys at arm's length, shouting meanwhile, 'Come one, come all. This rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.' (9) The amount and character of his reading. By six, under the tutelage of Adele, Galton had become...
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An Evening When Alone: Four Journals of Single Women in the South, 1827-67

Michael O'Brien - 1993 - 484 pages
...O Lord, before my mouth: and keep the door of my lips." (Book of Common Prayer, Psalms 141:2). 19. "Respect was mingled with surprise, / And the stern...which warriors feel / In foemen worthy of their steel" (Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake 5.10.10-12). 20. "Behold, he that keepeth Israel / shall neither...
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The Annotated Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery - 1997 - 522 pages
...hello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic Wars) or excerpts from that work in a school text. 13. Cf. "Respect was mingled with surprise / And the stern...which warriors feel / In foemen worthy of their steel" (Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake, Canto V, Stanza 10). 14 See n. 16, ch. 18. Just when she most...
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Lessons of War: The Civil War in Children's Magazines

James Alan Marten - 1998 - 310 pages
...except one bold, black-eyed girl, who defiantly placed herself against a wall, saying, "Come one, come all, this rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I! Come on, boys, I ain't afraid of you!" "A fort! a fort to take!" shouted the boys. "Fire!" said the...
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William Morris: Centenary Essays ; Papers from the Morris Centenary ...

Peter Faulkner, Peter Preston, William Morris Society - 1999 - 328 pages
...armour is linked to William Morris's earliest reading in Walter Scott, with its stirring tales of combat and 'the stern joy which warriors feel/ In foemen worthy of their steel'.3 This, from Marmion (1808), is typical Boys' Own stuff, which we may imagine Morris declaiming...
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Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the ...

Michael West - 2000 - 546 pages
...your feet planted upon the rock, with the rock also at your back, and . . . can say, "Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I." Such, uttered or not, is the strength of your sentence. Sentences in which there is no strain. (W....
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