Littell's Living Age, Volume 142Living Age Company Incorporated, 1879 |
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... important part in regulating the rainfall of a country ; and it is well known that the destruction of forests has a most injurious effect on climate . Professor Ramsay , in means reassuring . Engineers have stated most emphatically that ...
... important part in regulating the rainfall of a country ; and it is well known that the destruction of forests has a most injurious effect on climate . Professor Ramsay , in means reassuring . Engineers have stated most emphatically that ...
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... important qualities in which Bach superficiality to the state of more cultured deserves to be called a greater musician and critical knowledge , which the rising than Handel , though it may be doubted generation will , at all events ...
... important qualities in which Bach superficiality to the state of more cultured deserves to be called a greater musician and critical knowledge , which the rising than Handel , though it may be doubted generation will , at all events ...
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... important of the two policemen still present , while he wiped his hot forehead . " You see , sir , you're new to the work , " remarked the other , accosting Mr. Tan- ner ; " but this elderly gentleman , " point- ing to Amias , " he did ...
... important of the two policemen still present , while he wiped his hot forehead . " You see , sir , you're new to the work , " remarked the other , accosting Mr. Tan- ner ; " but this elderly gentleman , " point- ing to Amias , " he did ...
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... important as an introduction to those great events which in the future are sure to come from the positive results that have already been secured , and for which the world should be prepared , without anxiety or amazement . BENJAMIN WARD ...
... important as an introduction to those great events which in the future are sure to come from the positive results that have already been secured , and for which the world should be prepared , without anxiety or amazement . BENJAMIN WARD ...
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... important depart- ments , as that of war , for example , have an organization in reality of much older date than the Tartar conquest . At the capital was a regular war ministry divided into the several branches ( which have not had a ...
... important depart- ments , as that of war , for example , have an organization in reality of much older date than the Tartar conquest . At the capital was a regular war ministry divided into the several branches ( which have not had a ...
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Page 300 - I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils ; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay ; Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Page 302 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Page 170 - Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer ; and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Page 209 - tis heard no more — Oh ! lyre divine, what daring spirit Wakes thee now? Though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing with supreme dominion Through the azure deep of air...
Page 302 - ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still...
Page 171 - And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.
Page 150 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand; This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 302 - Leave to the Nightingale her shady wood; A privacy of glorious light is thine ; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with rapture more divine ; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home ! WORDSWORTH.
Page 11 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 265 - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result; and whose members have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another.