The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen5David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... able with our mules , we alighted , crawling up the rest of the proclivity with great diffi- culty , now with our feet , now with our hands , not without many untoward slips which did much bruise us on the various colored cinders with ...
... able with our mules , we alighted , crawling up the rest of the proclivity with great diffi- culty , now with our feet , now with our hands , not without many untoward slips which did much bruise us on the various colored cinders with ...
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... able to hold it in my hands . This mountain is exceedingly fruitful in vines , and exot- ics grow readily . We now came to a lake , of about two miles in circumference , environed with hills ; the water of it is fresh and sweet on the ...
... able to hold it in my hands . This mountain is exceedingly fruitful in vines , and exot- ics grow readily . We now came to a lake , of about two miles in circumference , environed with hills ; the water of it is fresh and sweet on the ...
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... would drop in a moment , and yet so obstinately adhering , as to be able to contest against the fiercest winds that prostrate mighty structures ! There it abides till God bids it fall : for so the wise 1662 JOHN EVELYN The Life of Trees.
... would drop in a moment , and yet so obstinately adhering , as to be able to contest against the fiercest winds that prostrate mighty structures ! There it abides till God bids it fall : for so the wise 1662 JOHN EVELYN The Life of Trees.
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... able to give to those shallow natures . His ideal of womanhood was not ignoble , as we see in what he writes of Eve- " She as a veil down to the slender waist Her unadorned golden tresses wore , As the vine curls her tendrils , which ...
... able to give to those shallow natures . His ideal of womanhood was not ignoble , as we see in what he writes of Eve- " She as a veil down to the slender waist Her unadorned golden tresses wore , As the vine curls her tendrils , which ...
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... able to say any word but ' Oh , my father ! Oh , my father ! ' He liking well her most natural and dear affection to him , gave her his fatherly blessing , telling her that , whatsoever he should suffer , though he were innocent , yet ...
... able to say any word but ' Oh , my father ! Oh , my father ! ' He liking well her most natural and dear affection to him , gave her his fatherly blessing , telling her that , whatsoever he should suffer , though he were innocent , yet ...
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