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... object . From this moment they were sisters no longer . Jealousy , envy , distrust , entered , for the first time , into their minds . These chaste females , who had never before had but one feeling , one will , now watched , hated ...
... object . From this moment they were sisters no longer . Jealousy , envy , distrust , entered , for the first time , into their minds . These chaste females , who had never before had but one feeling , one will , now watched , hated ...
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... object - yet the assertion is false , mani- festly false and slanderous to the highest degree ; because such is the nature of American wisdom , that , unlike any other qualification , it becomes less perceptible in proportion to its ...
... object - yet the assertion is false , mani- festly false and slanderous to the highest degree ; because such is the nature of American wisdom , that , unlike any other qualification , it becomes less perceptible in proportion to its ...
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... objects , I ask , why does Mr. J. H. V - y make that reproach to the French language only ? Why does he not print a circular letter , and send it to the Latinists , Greekists , Germans , Italians , Spaniards , & c . & c . Poor Mr. J. H. ...
... objects , I ask , why does Mr. J. H. V - y make that reproach to the French language only ? Why does he not print a circular letter , and send it to the Latinists , Greekists , Germans , Italians , Spaniards , & c . & c . Poor Mr. J. H. ...
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... objects ; Mr. J. H. V - y calls this grossièreté . Let Mr. J. H. V - y take Boyer's French and English dictionary , he will see that the meanings of the word grossièreté are coarseness , rudeness , clownishness , clownery ; he will see ...
... objects ; Mr. J. H. V - y calls this grossièreté . Let Mr. J. H. V - y take Boyer's French and English dictionary , he will see that the meanings of the word grossièreté are coarseness , rudeness , clownishness , clownery ; he will see ...
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... objects , in using two words to form a negative , or in putting a masculine word before a feminine one , and adding a letter to sof- ten the pronunciation , is there in that any mistake ? - No , since it is done purposely . If no ...
... objects , in using two words to form a negative , or in putting a masculine word before a feminine one , and adding a letter to sof- ten the pronunciation , is there in that any mistake ? - No , since it is done purposely . If no ...
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Page 275 - And Jesus, answering, said unto him, suffer it to be so now : for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered Him.
Page 272 - Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see, The imminent death of twenty thousand men, That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds...
Page 291 - And chokes up with the glittering wrecks Of golden shrines the sacred waters ! Downward the Peri turns her gaze, And, through the war-field's bloody haze, Beholds a youthful warrior stand, Alone, beside his native river — The red blade broken in his hand And the last arrow in his quiver.
Page 231 - But that loveliness, ever in motion, which plays Like the light upon autumn's soft shadowy days, Now here and now there, giving warmth as it flies From the lips to the cheek, from the cheek to the eyes, Now melting in mist and now breaking in gleams, Like the glimpses a saint has of heaven in his dreams...
Page 175 - Friends, brothers, and sisters are laid side by side, Yet none have saluted, and none have replied.
Page 176 - The first tabernacle to Hope we will build, And look for the sleepers around us to rise ; The second to Faith, which ensures it fulfilled, And the third to the Lamb of the great sacrifice Who bequeathed us them both when he rose to the skies.
Page 231 - One, — what a rapture is his. Who in moonlight and music thus sweetly may glide O'er the Lake of Cashmere, with that One by his side ! If woman can make the worst wilderness dear. Think, think what a heaven she must make of Cashmere...
Page 225 - And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
Page 328 - But if their bad actions weigh down the balance, the stone canoe sinks at once, and leaves them up to their chins in the water, to behold and regret the reward enjoyed by the good, and eternally struggling, but with unavailing endeavours, to reach the blissful island, from which they are excluded for ever.
Page 96 - George ; one on the Eastern, and the other on the Western, side of this water.