Littell's Living Age, Volume 64Living Age Company Incorporated, 1860 - American periodicals |
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Page 18
... look to the policy of Europe , in the times of William and Anne , for the purpose of regulating the balance of power in Europe at the present day , is to disregard the progress of events , and to con- fuse dates and facts which throw a ...
... look to the policy of Europe , in the times of William and Anne , for the purpose of regulating the balance of power in Europe at the present day , is to disregard the progress of events , and to con- fuse dates and facts which throw a ...
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... look forward with open sea , where icebergs are strewn plenti- delight to the first onset with the foe they fully . The course is now shaped for Lancas- have come to do battle with . Wiser heads ter Sound . August has set in ; the sun ...
... look forward with open sea , where icebergs are strewn plenti- delight to the first onset with the foe they fully . The course is now shaped for Lancas- have come to do battle with . Wiser heads ter Sound . August has set in ; the sun ...
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... look for a route calm spots under beetling cliffs or in shallow whereby to reach the sea off the coast of lakes , which can be looked down upon from North America . the masthead . mountain precipices of North Devon and the dark and ...
... look for a route calm spots under beetling cliffs or in shallow whereby to reach the sea off the coast of lakes , which can be looked down upon from North America . the masthead . mountain precipices of North Devon and the dark and ...
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... look southward between Capes Walker and Bunny , there stretched away a fair and promising channel leading direct to ... looks , and siren- like , lure the discoverer , by many an unex- plored bay and fiord , to delay a while and visit ...
... look southward between Capes Walker and Bunny , there stretched away a fair and promising channel leading direct to ... looks , and siren- like , lure the discoverer , by many an unex- plored bay and fiord , to delay a while and visit ...
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... look to heaven and thank their God . Ten miles , twenty miles , are passed over , still beset ; not a foot of open water in sight , yet still they drift to the south . Thirty miles are now accomplished ; they have only sixty miles of ...
... look to heaven and thank their God . Ten miles , twenty miles , are passed over , still beset ; not a foot of open water in sight , yet still they drift to the south . Thirty miles are now accomplished ; they have only sixty miles of ...
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Page 274 - The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee; A poet could not but be gay In such a jocund company.
Page 271 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: he took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Page 270 - Curse ye Meroz,' said the angel of the Lord, 'Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; Because they came not to the help of the Lord, To the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 270 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 272 - For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. 3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Page 277 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Page 2 - It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
Page 272 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 211 - The hand of the reaper Takes the ears that are hoary, But the voice of the weeper Wails manhood in glory. The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest.
Page 270 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.