Contributions to HerographyE. Darrow, 1850 - 101 էջ |
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... reasons : First , because all men are naturally sloth - loving Secondly , because we have inherited a silly feudal prejudice against the pursuits of mechanism and agriculture ; a prejudice which , the sooner we attack and dig out from ...
... reasons : First , because all men are naturally sloth - loving Secondly , because we have inherited a silly feudal prejudice against the pursuits of mechanism and agriculture ; a prejudice which , the sooner we attack and dig out from ...
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... reason will permit . Three months after their father's death , which occurred in 1784 , Robert and his brother Gilbert leased a farm in company , upon which they remained four years , during which he composed the greater number of his ...
... reason will permit . Three months after their father's death , which occurred in 1784 , Robert and his brother Gilbert leased a farm in company , upon which they remained four years , during which he composed the greater number of his ...
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... reason of the ea- gerness with which his company was sought on all hands , and his own preeminently companionable disposition . He spent , at this period , a far greater portion of his time in social assemblies than he had ever before ...
... reason of the ea- gerness with which his company was sought on all hands , and his own preeminently companionable disposition . He spent , at this period , a far greater portion of his time in social assemblies than he had ever before ...
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... reason , which he was wise enough to perceive had been by nature given to man for his guide of life ; and by its dictates alone , so far as discoverable , he determined to be governed , rather than by those arbitra- ry customs which he ...
... reason , which he was wise enough to perceive had been by nature given to man for his guide of life ; and by its dictates alone , so far as discoverable , he determined to be governed , rather than by those arbitra- ry customs which he ...
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... mind for the infirmi ties of others , ) for the idiotic stare which then as now greet- ed any , even the slightest , deviation from absurdly custo- mary forms , to live and act as reason directed THE TUB - TENANT . 39.
... mind for the infirmi ties of others , ) for the idiotic stare which then as now greet- ed any , even the slightest , deviation from absurdly custo- mary forms , to live and act as reason directed THE TUB - TENANT . 39.
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Էջ 14 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, and fondly broods with miser care ; time but the impression deeper makes, as streams their channels deeper wear.
Էջ 13 - Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest-? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast...
Էջ 53 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Էջ 32 - Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Էջ 19 - Faith, he maunna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that; Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may,— As come it will for a' that,— That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a
Էջ 12 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
Էջ 12 - And mouldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly ! But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary.
Էջ 14 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight...
Էջ 13 - Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah, little thought we 'twas our last ) Ayr gurgling kiss'd his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods thick'ning green : The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.
Էջ 19 - Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey, an' a that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man's a Man for a