Miscellanies, Volumen2J.W. Parker and Son, 1860 |
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... Leave such inhuman dreams to monks and faquirs . ' The scientific agriculturist doubted the truth of the dogma more and more as his science revealed to him that the limit of productiveness , even upon old soils , had been nowhere ...
... Leave such inhuman dreams to monks and faquirs . ' The scientific agriculturist doubted the truth of the dogma more and more as his science revealed to him that the limit of productiveness , even upon old soils , had been nowhere ...
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... leaves ; other ants remaining below , receive them , cut them into small pieces , shoulder them , and carry them to their nest . There was a long line of these fellows walking at double - quick pace , each with a great piece of green ...
... leaves ; other ants remaining below , receive them , cut them into small pieces , shoulder them , and carry them to their nest . There was a long line of these fellows walking at double - quick pace , each with a great piece of green ...
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... leaves , an inner horizontal coronet of bright scarlet , forming a cup of fire , in the midst of which sits the flower- clump of little white blossoms , stuffed in a cushion . It ought to be called the phoenix - plant ; it is just like ...
... leaves , an inner horizontal coronet of bright scarlet , forming a cup of fire , in the midst of which sits the flower- clump of little white blossoms , stuffed in a cushion . It ought to be called the phoenix - plant ; it is just like ...
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... leave the national intellect fallow , and thereby give more and more scope to the merely animal passions ; till , frivolous and sensual , the race sinks into the dotage of second child- hood : but not self - contented or at peace . To a ...
... leave the national intellect fallow , and thereby give more and more scope to the merely animal passions ; till , frivolous and sensual , the race sinks into the dotage of second child- hood : but not self - contented or at peace . To a ...
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... leave behind them a fresh race which knows them not , and could win no honour by owning them , and which owes them no more than if it had been produced , as midden - flies were said to be of old , by some spontaneous generation ? It is ...
... leave behind them a fresh race which knows them not , and could win no honour by owning them , and which owes them no more than if it had been produced , as midden - flies were said to be of old , by some spontaneous generation ? It is ...
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Página 387 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Página 304 - And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
Página 247 - And soon with this he other matter blended, Cheerfully uttered, with demeanour kind, But stately in the main ; and, when he ended, I could have laughed myself to scorn to find In that decrepit man so firm a mind.
Página 385 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Página 78 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth...
Página 129 - Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek And love to live in dimple sleek...
Página 191 - He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread : but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
Página 108 - Fletcher; and lastly (without wrong last to be named), the right happy and copious industry of Master Shakespeare, Master Dekker, and Master Heywood; wishing what I write may be read by their light...
Página 387 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled ; thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
Página 331 - ... between the living and the dead, that the plague may be stayed. Hardly less is the present physical state of our great cities felt by that numerous class which is, next to the employer, the most important in a city. I mean the shopmen, clerks, and all the men, principally young ones, who are employed exclusively in the work of distribution.