Hours at Home, Bind 10Charles Scribner & Company, 1870 |
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Side 6
... half an hour later , leaped triumphant upon the deck of the Bubble , and searched it for his sister's glowing face , it was nowhere to be seen . " Miss Manning's gone below to speak to the steward , sir . You found the man alive , I see ...
... half an hour later , leaped triumphant upon the deck of the Bubble , and searched it for his sister's glowing face , it was nowhere to be seen . " Miss Manning's gone below to speak to the steward , sir . You found the man alive , I see ...
Side 9
... half - breed Portuguese , and other strangers hanging about the court , and , wild as the project sounds , it was in a fair way for success , when some wretch- ed traitor sold the secret to the king of Arracan the very day before the ...
... half - breed Portuguese , and other strangers hanging about the court , and , wild as the project sounds , it was in a fair way for success , when some wretch- ed traitor sold the secret to the king of Arracan the very day before the ...
Side 15
... half unconsciously , learning something . A man cannot col- lect autographs with success , without learning every day something new in biography or history . The acquisition of a valuable autograph creates a desire to know about him who ...
... half unconsciously , learning something . A man cannot col- lect autographs with success , without learning every day something new in biography or history . The acquisition of a valuable autograph creates a desire to know about him who ...
Side 16
... half - dozen autograph- bitten cronies , who are never done turn- ing over the familiar leaves , and gloating at their inspiring contents . Here and there is a letter or a note so entirely characteristic of the man who penned it , so ...
... half - dozen autograph- bitten cronies , who are never done turn- ing over the familiar leaves , and gloating at their inspiring contents . Here and there is a letter or a note so entirely characteristic of the man who penned it , so ...
Side 29
... half of that of a man , and that of a Christian , though re- ceived as good against a Christian , is not so valuable against a Moslem . A curious case was related to me by an intelligent native of Damascus . About ten years ago a ...
... half of that of a man , and that of a Christian , though re- ceived as good against a Christian , is not so valuable against a Moslem . A curious case was related to me by an intelligent native of Damascus . About ten years ago a ...
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Side 186 - My heart is smitten, and withered like grass ; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Side 442 - For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Side 477 - Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave : Nail to the mast her holy flag. Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!
Side 240 - And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee : Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly ; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Side 501 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Side 36 - I soon discovered that my father would not hear of this strange alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son;* my wound was insensibly/ healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Side 174 - Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Side 502 - If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man...
Side 501 - He is the rock of defence for human nature; an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere with him relationship and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things...
Side 113 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.