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... hands , that had life . When a child , I stuck pins through ranks of flies , to make them draw in a body , and tortured the cockchafer in spin- ning , having , like Entomologists , an idea that insects had no feeling ; and I even , on ...
... hands , that had life . When a child , I stuck pins through ranks of flies , to make them draw in a body , and tortured the cockchafer in spin- ning , having , like Entomologists , an idea that insects had no feeling ; and I even , on ...
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... hands without having a tin kettle tied to their tails . My mother often reproved me for my cruelty , but my father viewed all these vicious propensities as the harmless qualities of a daring boy , and upheld me in all that I did . These ...
... hands without having a tin kettle tied to their tails . My mother often reproved me for my cruelty , but my father viewed all these vicious propensities as the harmless qualities of a daring boy , and upheld me in all that I did . These ...
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... hand - it was finely pencilled , and delicately formed - he had gathered it in an unfrequented spot . He repeated the well - known lines of Gray- " Full many a flower is born to blush unseen , And waste its sweetness on the desert air ...
... hand - it was finely pencilled , and delicately formed - he had gathered it in an unfrequented spot . He repeated the well - known lines of Gray- " Full many a flower is born to blush unseen , And waste its sweetness on the desert air ...
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... mature years , and so my uncle had an undisputed mo- nopoly of Charles ; but as my uncle was always accompanied by Charles , my father , in like man- ner , was always accompanied by myself . My father never took a gun in his hand but I 8.
... mature years , and so my uncle had an undisputed mo- nopoly of Charles ; but as my uncle was always accompanied by Charles , my father , in like man- ner , was always accompanied by myself . My father never took a gun in his hand but I 8.
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Two brothers. father never took a gun in his hand but I was by his side , and he was pleased to call me his Fidus Achates . I would ramble with him for many an hour , and at an early age endured fatigue like a little Hercules . All this ...
Two brothers. father never took a gun in his hand but I was by his side , and he was pleased to call me his Fidus Achates . I would ramble with him for many an hour , and at an early age endured fatigue like a little Hercules . All this ...
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Página 7 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Página 95 - My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!
Página 82 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Página 39 - I am old enough to have seen and observed that we are all playthings of fortune, and that it depends upon something as insignificant and precarious as the tossing up of a halfpenny whether a man rises to affluence and honours, or continues to his dying day struggling with the difficulties and disgraces of life.
Página 98 - Education and instruction are the means, the one by use, the other by precept, to make our natural faculty of reason both the better and the sooner able to judge rightly between truth and error, good and evil.
Página 10 - The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Página 65 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Página 14 - But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
Página 12 - Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God.
Página 61 - The' expanded waters gather on the plain : They float the fields, and overtop the grain; Then rushing onwards, with a sweepy sway, Bear flocks and folds and labouring hinds away.