The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Selections and Masterpieces from Their Writings ...Fifth avenue library society, 1899 |
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... mountains divide the mighty continents which were the seats of the most ancient civilization ; no sea flows between them . The Red Sea terminates over seventy miles from the Mediterranean ; even the Suez Canal does not divide Asia and ...
... mountains divide the mighty continents which were the seats of the most ancient civilization ; no sea flows between them . The Red Sea terminates over seventy miles from the Mediterranean ; even the Suez Canal does not divide Asia and ...
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... have seen ! " Far cliffs of ice his feet had climbed that day outspoke of him to me ; The avalanches seemed to sound the name of Agassiz ! And standing on the mountain crag , where loosened waters JAMES THOMAS FIELDS 107.
... have seen ! " Far cliffs of ice his feet had climbed that day outspoke of him to me ; The avalanches seemed to sound the name of Agassiz ! And standing on the mountain crag , where loosened waters JAMES THOMAS FIELDS 107.
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... mountain crag , where loosened waters rush and foam , I felt that , though on Cambridge side , he made that spot my home . And looking round me as I mused , I knew no pang of fear or care , Or homesick weariness , because once Agassiz ...
... mountain crag , where loosened waters rush and foam , I felt that , though on Cambridge side , he made that spot my home . And looking round me as I mused , I knew no pang of fear or care , Or homesick weariness , because once Agassiz ...
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... mountain like a kingly shroud , except when broken here and there by the sharp points of rocks too precipitous to retain the descending snows . Beneath , far beneath these towering crests ... mountains never melts LOUIS GUILLAUME FIGUIER III.
... mountain like a kingly shroud , except when broken here and there by the sharp points of rocks too precipitous to retain the descending snows . Beneath , far beneath these towering crests ... mountains never melts LOUIS GUILLAUME FIGUIER III.
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... mountains never melts ; it preserves its condition of solidity upon all rocks whose temperature never rises above zero . The masses which are thus accumulated year after year , would eventually , one might say , threaten the very sky ...
... mountains never melts ; it preserves its condition of solidity upon all rocks whose temperature never rises above zero . The masses which are thus accumulated year after year , would eventually , one might say , threaten the very sky ...
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Página 344 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid ? We have been assured, 'sir, in the sacred writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Página 161 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Página 348 - So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business ; but to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will...
Página 341 - Then I turned and went down Chestnut Street and part of Walnut Street, eating my roll all the way and, coming round, found myself again at Market Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in a boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Página 80 - And don't you make any noise!" So, toddling off to his trundle-bed, He dreamt of the pretty toys; And, as he was dreaming, an angel song Awakened our Little Boy Blue — Oh! the years are many, the years are long, But the little toy friends are true!
Página 349 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Página 161 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Página 353 - What's he? What? Touch-paper to be sure. What are our poets, take them as they fall, Good, bad, rich, poor, much read, not read at all? Them and their works in the same class you'll find; They are the mere waste-paper of mankind.
Página 351 - ... said I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.
Página 341 - I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus refreshed, I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean-dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way.