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Page 87
The most extensive class of animals , the graminivora , cannot live without these
substances ; their food must contain a certain amount of one or more of them ,
and if these compounds are not supplied , death quickly ensues . This important ...
The most extensive class of animals , the graminivora , cannot live without these
substances ; their food must contain a certain amount of one or more of them ,
and if these compounds are not supplied , death quickly ensues . This important ...
Page 107
In the summer , he informs us , they live wherever the cornfields and stock are . In
the winter , they take to the mountains , where they can get plenty of wood . As yet
, we have not met a single village of them — it appearing to be their habit to ...
In the summer , he informs us , they live wherever the cornfields and stock are . In
the winter , they take to the mountains , where they can get plenty of wood . As yet
, we have not met a single village of them — it appearing to be their habit to ...
Page 108
... an approximation of it . Indeed , if the few we have seen bear a proper
proportion to the whole number contained in the country , the extent of this
population has been greatly exaggerated . But I prefer to believe that , as a nation
, they live ...
... an approximation of it . Indeed , if the few we have seen bear a proper
proportion to the whole number contained in the country , the extent of this
population has been greatly exaggerated . But I prefer to believe that , as a nation
, they live ...
Page 138
Such a man may live like Aristides the Just , to return in some dark hour of the
public affairs , and by his timely service , make glad the bosom of an ungrateful
country . Let it be conceded , the honest man may not always reach the pinnacle
of ...
Such a man may live like Aristides the Just , to return in some dark hour of the
public affairs , and by his timely service , make glad the bosom of an ungrateful
country . Let it be conceded , the honest man may not always reach the pinnacle
of ...
Page 139
Some reasoners pretend that enthusiasm disgusts one with ordinary life , and
that , being unable to remain in that disposition , it is better never to have
experienced it : and why then have they consented to be young , even to live ,
since these ...
Some reasoners pretend that enthusiasm disgusts one with ordinary life , and
that , being unable to remain in that disposition , it is better never to have
experienced it : and why then have they consented to be young , even to live ,
since these ...
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Page 416 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same : Unerring NATURE, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art.
Page 138 - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Page 341 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Page 121 - While the same sunbeam shines upon The guilty and the guiltless one, And hymns of joy proclaim through. Heaven The Triumph of a soul Forgiven...
Page 196 - Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert ; whence arise But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste, Rank at the core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are poison ; such the plants Which spring beneath her steps as Passion flies O'er the world's wilderness, and vainly pants For some celestial fruit forbidden to our wants.
Page 200 - For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. 15 And all that sat in' the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.
Page 278 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Page 346 - And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea ; and it became as the blood of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea.
Page 197 - By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Page 278 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.