Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and ModernCharles Dudley Warner International Society, 1897 |
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... horse . The Marquess of Worcester had recently observed the expansive power of moisture rarefied by heat . After many ex- periments he had succeeded in constructing a rude steam - engine , which he called a fire - water work , and which ...
... horse . The Marquess of Worcester had recently observed the expansive power of moisture rarefied by heat . After many ex- periments he had succeeded in constructing a rude steam - engine , which he called a fire - water work , and which ...
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... horses could in winter get through the bog , in which at every step they sank deep . The markets were often inaccessible during several months . It is said that the fruits of the earth were sometimes suffered to rot in one place , while ...
... horses could in winter get through the bog , in which at every step they sank deep . The markets were often inaccessible during several months . It is said that the fruits of the earth were sometimes suffered to rot in one place , while ...
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... horses . These strong and patient beasts , the breed of which is now extinct , were attended by a class of men who seem to have borne much resemblance to the Spanish muleteers . A trav- eler of humble condition often found it convenient ...
... horses . These strong and patient beasts , the breed of which is now extinct , were attended by a class of men who seem to have borne much resemblance to the Spanish muleteers . A trav- eler of humble condition often found it convenient ...
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... horses always sufficient . Vanbrugh , in the succeeding generation , described with great humor the way in which a country gentleman , newly chosen a member of Parliament , went up to London . On that occasion all the exertions of six ...
... horses always sufficient . Vanbrugh , in the succeeding generation , described with great humor the way in which a country gentleman , newly chosen a member of Parliament , went up to London . On that occasion all the exertions of six ...
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... horses and to the noble art of horseman- ship ; that the Thames , which had long been an important nursery of seamen , would cease to be the chief thoroughfare from London up to Windsor and down to Gravesend ; that saddlers and spur ...
... horses and to the noble art of horseman- ship ; that the Thames , which had long been an important nursery of seamen , would cease to be the chief thoroughfare from London up to Windsor and down to Gravesend ; that saddlers and spur ...
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Página 9600 - And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
Página 9770 - When we have run our passion's heat, Love hither makes his best retreat. The Gods, that mortal beauty chase, Still in a tree did end their race; Apollo hunted Daphne so, Only that she might laurel grow; And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed.
Página 9760 - He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
Página 9411 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 9769 - How vainly men themselves amaze. To win the palm, the oak, or bays: And their incessant labors see Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all the flowers and trees do close, To weave the garlands of repose.
Página 9424 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Página 9439 - And Appenzel's stout infantry, and Egmont's Flemish spears. There rode the brood of false Lorraine, the curses of our land! And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand! And as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's...
Página 9722 - Unto some brutish beast. All beasts are happy, For when they die Their souls are soon dissolved in elements, But mine must live still to be plagued in hell.
Página 9437 - quoth false Sextus, " Will not the villain drown? But for this stay, ere close of day We should have sacked the town !" " Heaven help him ! " quoth Lars Porsena, "And bring him safe to shore; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before.
Página 9721 - Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!