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... Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head , And Learning wiser grown without his books . - - Cowper . " How I laughed as I lay concealed from sight. SHORELINE - LAKE TAHOE . WATT DISCOVERING THE POWER OF STEAM .
... Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head , And Learning wiser grown without his books . - - Cowper . " How I laughed as I lay concealed from sight. SHORELINE - LAKE TAHOE . WATT DISCOVERING THE POWER OF STEAM .
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... head ache . And , oh , my stars ! if the fathers and mothers were so small , what must the children and babies have been ? A whole family of them might have been put to bed in a shoe , or have crept into an old glove and played at hide ...
... head ache . And , oh , my stars ! if the fathers and mothers were so small , what must the children and babies have been ? A whole family of them might have been put to bed in a shoe , or have crept into an old glove and played at hide ...
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... head , and shout through the hollow of his fists , " Halloo , brother Antæus ! How are you , my good fellow ? " And when the small , distant squeak of their voices reached his ear , the Giant would make answer , " Pretty well , Brother ...
... head , and shout through the hollow of his fists , " Halloo , brother Antæus ! How are you , my good fellow ? " And when the small , distant squeak of their voices reached his ear , the Giant would make answer , " Pretty well , Brother ...
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... head among the clouds , he was been so for hundreds of years , and Even if he had met another giant , Antæus would have fancied the world not big enough for two such vast per- sonages , and , instead of being friends with him , would ...
... head among the clouds , he was been so for hundreds of years , and Even if he had met another giant , Antæus would have fancied the world not big enough for two such vast per- sonages , and , instead of being friends with him , would ...
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... head to foot of the Giant . He would lay down his great hand flat on the grass , and challenge the tallest of them to clamber upon it , and straddle from finger to finger . So fearless were they that they made nothing of creeping in ...
... head to foot of the Giant . He would lay down his great hand flat on the grass , and challenge the tallest of them to clamber upon it , and straddle from finger to finger . So fearless were they that they made nothing of creeping in ...
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