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... nature would awaken , and for a few hours , the gayety of spring shone in every eye , and smiled on every field . But the shivering blasts from the north would carry their chill influence over the scene again , and the dark and gloomy ...
... nature would awaken , and for a few hours , the gayety of spring shone in every eye , and smiled on every field . But the shivering blasts from the north would carry their chill influence over the scene again , and the dark and gloomy ...
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... natural senses , whether a big loaf of sugar is not likely to contain a better illustration of a proposition than such a lump as one of your Dutch women puts under her tongue when she drinks her tea . There are two ways of doing every ...
... natural senses , whether a big loaf of sugar is not likely to contain a better illustration of a proposition than such a lump as one of your Dutch women puts under her tongue when she drinks her tea . There are two ways of doing every ...
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... nature . Mr. Le Quoi soon recovered his presence of mind , and his decorum ; he briefly apologized to the ladies for one or two very intemperate expressions , that had escaped him in a moment of extraordinary excitement , and re ...
... nature . Mr. Le Quoi soon recovered his presence of mind , and his decorum ; he briefly apologized to the ladies for one or two very intemperate expressions , that had escaped him in a moment of extraordinary excitement , and re ...
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... natural surface , and the constant recurrence of enormous and slippery roots , that were laid bare by the re- moval of the light soil , together with stumps of trees , to make a passage not only difficult but dan- gerous . Yet the ...
... natural surface , and the constant recurrence of enormous and slippery roots , that were laid bare by the re- moval of the light soil , together with stumps of trees , to make a passage not only difficult but dan- gerous . Yet the ...
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... nature did not absolutely require , with the justice of the German character . There was no grinding of the poor . The word speculator was then unknown to them . I have seen many a stout man , bending under the load of the bag of meal ...
... nature did not absolutely require , with the justice of the German character . There was no grinding of the poor . The word speculator was then unknown to them . I have seen many a stout man , bending under the load of the bag of meal ...
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Pagina 2 - Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the...
Pagina 2 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Pagina 119 - Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful hour alone: Perchance her reason stoops or reels; Perchance a courage, not her own, Braces her mind to desperate tone. The scattered van of England wheels; She only said, as loud in air The tumult roared, "Is Wilton there?" They fly! or maddened by despair Fight but to die — "Is Wilton there?
Pagina 125 - What does he see?" said Elizabeth: "there must be some animal in sight." Hearing no answer from her companion, Miss Temple turned her head, and beheld Louisa standing with her face whitened to the color of death, and her finger pointing upward, with a sort of flickering, convulsed motion.
Pagina 42 - ... company to a body ; hurting nothing ; being, as it was, as harmless as a garter-snake. But now it gives me sore thoughts when I hear the frighty things whizzing through the air, for I know it's only a motion to bring out all the brats in the village.
Pagina 126 - ... growling of the three becoming more horrid at each moment, until the younger beast, overleaping its intended bound, fell directly before the mastiff. There was a moment of fearful cries and struggles ; but they ended almost as soon as commenced, by the cub appearing in the air, hurled from the jaws of Brave, with a violence that sent it against a tree so forcibly as to render it completely senseless.
Pagina 126 - All this time, Brave stood firm and undaunted, his short tail erect, his body drawn backward on its haunches, and his eyes following the movements of both dam and cub. At every gambol played by the latter, it approached nigher to the dog, the growling of the three becoming more horrid at each moment...
Pagina 42 - This comes of settling a country !" he said ; " here have I known the pigeons to fly for forty long years, and, till you made your clearings, there was nobody to skear or to hurt them. I loved to see them come...
Pagina 128 - Elizabeth now lay wholly at the mercy of the beast. There is said to be something in the front of the image of the Maker, that daunts the hearts of the inferior beings of his creation ; and it would seem that some such power, in the present instance, suspended the threatened blow. The eyes of the monster and the kneeling maiden met, for an instant, when the former stooped to examine her fallen foe ; next to scent her luckless cub. From the latter examination...
Pagina 125 - Hearing no answer from her companion, Miss Temple turned her head, and beheld Louisa, standing with her face whitened to the color of death, and her finger pointing upward, with a sort of flickering, convulsed motion. The quick eye of Elizabeth glanced in the direction indicated by her friend, where she saw the fierce front and glaring eyes of a female panther, fixed on them in horrid malignity, and threatening instant...