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... equal : and after a des- perate struggle , in which I felt that I was struggling for life , I wrested the weapon from him - we both fell at the same instant ; and the poniard , which I held in my hand , entered the stranger's side , and ...
... equal : and after a des- perate struggle , in which I felt that I was struggling for life , I wrested the weapon from him - we both fell at the same instant ; and the poniard , which I held in my hand , entered the stranger's side , and ...
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... equal to any lyrical effusion of Beranger . It contains a scene , a dialogue , and a picture ; and though all is precise and neat in thought and in expression , it is wholly free from stiffness or common place . We account it a literary ...
... equal to any lyrical effusion of Beranger . It contains a scene , a dialogue , and a picture ; and though all is precise and neat in thought and in expression , it is wholly free from stiffness or common place . We account it a literary ...
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... equal . But there is one characteristic in which it differs from other fluids , such as oil , water , & c . , as it may be said to be almost infinitely elastic . Pressure may be exerted upon atmospheric air almost to any extent without ...
... equal . But there is one characteristic in which it differs from other fluids , such as oil , water , & c . , as it may be said to be almost infinitely elastic . Pressure may be exerted upon atmospheric air almost to any extent without ...
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... equal to about thirty - two thousand pounds , or fourteen tons avoirdupois , a pressure which would be insupportable , and even fatal , were it not equal in every part , and counterbalanced by the spring of the air within us . This ...
... equal to about thirty - two thousand pounds , or fourteen tons avoirdupois , a pressure which would be insupportable , and even fatal , were it not equal in every part , and counterbalanced by the spring of the air within us . This ...
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... equal to the weight of a column of water thirty - three feet in height ; and , consequently , that the heights at which the two fluids were sustained , were proportionate to their respective weights . Mr. O. then proved that it is the ...
... equal to the weight of a column of water thirty - three feet in height ; and , consequently , that the heights at which the two fluids were sustained , were proportionate to their respective weights . Mr. O. then proved that it is the ...
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Página 5 - While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Página 265 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Página 108 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 366 - Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been.
Página 332 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize — More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Página 46 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, " Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of heaven and earth...
Página 46 - And Abraham arose and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou shalt arise early in the morning, and go on thy way.
Página 332 - But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment, tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Página 109 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 332 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all.