The SavageEdward J. Coale, 1813 - 312 páginas |
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... of Samson , the wars of the giants , the building of pyramids , the turning aside of ri- vers , and removing mountains ? What are such trifles as these when compared with the stupendous operations of the god THE SAVAGE .
... of Samson , the wars of the giants , the building of pyramids , the turning aside of ri- vers , and removing mountains ? What are such trifles as these when compared with the stupendous operations of the god THE SAVAGE .
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... turns round the hill . We guide our course through the boundless wilderness , by the sun , moon , and stars , and even by the appearance of the trees of the forest . We perform the most incredi- ble journeys without fatigue , crossing ...
... turns round the hill . We guide our course through the boundless wilderness , by the sun , moon , and stars , and even by the appearance of the trees of the forest . We perform the most incredi- ble journeys without fatigue , crossing ...
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... turn itself to such a variety of vocations , and accommodate itself to such a multitude of circumstances , must it not become infinitely superior to that sluggish existence , whose ideas are continually occupied with the millhorse round ...
... turn itself to such a variety of vocations , and accommodate itself to such a multitude of circumstances , must it not become infinitely superior to that sluggish existence , whose ideas are continually occupied with the millhorse round ...
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... turn to immediate profit , and slanderous aspersions against their neighbors . Now as we are dis- posed to gratify neither of these propensities we have very faint hopes indeed that our Savage will become po- pular . But , if it be ...
... turn to immediate profit , and slanderous aspersions against their neighbors . Now as we are dis- posed to gratify neither of these propensities we have very faint hopes indeed that our Savage will become po- pular . But , if it be ...
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... turn neither to the right hand nor to the left without sullying the purity of his virtue . If he should resent an injury , he is ungrateful ; if he submit in silence , it is imputed to baseness and cowardice of spirit . And every thing ...
... turn neither to the right hand nor to the left without sullying the purity of his virtue . If he should resent an injury , he is ungrateful ; if he submit in silence , it is imputed to baseness and cowardice of spirit . And every thing ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 289 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i
Página 10 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Página 156 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Página 95 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Página 202 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 156 - My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.
Página 95 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. " Some people," said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Página 93 - There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.
Página 225 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.