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... scarcely a word is spoken , and all are intent on the business before them . Their feasts are soon over ; and although it appears difficult to collect such an im- mense number of dishes , and to take them away again without much ...
... scarcely a word is spoken , and all are intent on the business before them . Their feasts are soon over ; and although it appears difficult to collect such an im- mense number of dishes , and to take them away again without much ...
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... scarcely credited by many English ; nor could I have believed the strength of these tremendous things , had I not been an eye wit- ness to a laughable instance of it , which I take the liberty of communicating through the medium of your ...
... scarcely credited by many English ; nor could I have believed the strength of these tremendous things , had I not been an eye wit- ness to a laughable instance of it , which I take the liberty of communicating through the medium of your ...
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... Scarcely had the day closed , when the flame burst at length pyramidi- cally from the crater , through the mass of smoke ; the rolling of the thunder became more awful and deafen- ing electric flashes quickly succeeded , attended with ...
... Scarcely had the day closed , when the flame burst at length pyramidi- cally from the crater , through the mass of smoke ; the rolling of the thunder became more awful and deafen- ing electric flashes quickly succeeded , attended with ...
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... scarcely left a moment's time to fly from the general destruction . It was on the morning of this fatal day , between the hours of nine and ten , that I was sat down in my apart- ment , just finishing a letter , when the papers and ...
... scarcely left a moment's time to fly from the general destruction . It was on the morning of this fatal day , between the hours of nine and ten , that I was sat down in my apart- ment , just finishing a letter , when the papers and ...
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... scarcely to be fathomed . This is the only place I could learn that was swal- lowed up in or about Lisbon , though I saw many large cracks and fissures in different parts . And one odd phenomenon I must not omit , which was communi ...
... scarcely to be fathomed . This is the only place I could learn that was swal- lowed up in or about Lisbon , though I saw many large cracks and fissures in different parts . And one odd phenomenon I must not omit , which was communi ...
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Página 230 - But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Página 344 - Was as a mockery of the tomb, Whose tints as gently sunk away As a departing rainbow's ray — An eye of most transparent light, That almost made the dungeon bright, And not a word of murmur — nut A groan o'er his untimely lot...
Página 230 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Página 230 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Página 230 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Página 197 - Parallels of this sort rather furnish similitudes to illustrate or to adorn, than supply analogies from whence to reason. The objects which are attempted to be forced into an analogy are not found in the same classes of existence. Individuals are physical beings, subject to laws universal and invariable. The immediate cause acting in these laws may be obscure : the general results are subjects of certain calculation. But cemmonwealths are not physical but moral essences.
Página 94 - Cataracts of declamation thunder here ; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald...
Página 98 - Franklin, as president of the "Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery," etc., issued the following letter: — "AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC. " From the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes unla-wfully held in Bondage.
Página 320 - His face was broad and fat, his mouth wide, and without any other expression than that of imbecility. His eyes, vacant and spiritless; and the corpulence of his whole person was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman, than of a refined philosopher.
Página 205 - ... new acquirements would enable me to see the ladies with tolerable intrepidity ; but, alas ! how vain are all the hopes of theory...