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Page 50
... wind , throws his craft on its beams ends , and often , the wreck but little more than pays the salvage of the court officers ; lender and borrower are both carried into the breakers , and dashed on a lee barren shore , drenched and ...
... wind , throws his craft on its beams ends , and often , the wreck but little more than pays the salvage of the court officers ; lender and borrower are both carried into the breakers , and dashed on a lee barren shore , drenched and ...
Page 54
... wind them- selves up in self , like a cocoon , and run counter to the design of their creation ; mere automatons in the scale of being , so far as usefulness is concerned . The party man deems it discreet to do all within his power to ...
... wind them- selves up in self , like a cocoon , and run counter to the design of their creation ; mere automatons in the scale of being , so far as usefulness is concerned . The party man deems it discreet to do all within his power to ...
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... wind passing over a prairie of tall grass and flowers ; the other strikes a blow , that resounds through the wilderness of mind , like rolling thunder through a forest of oaks . The one fails , when strong commotions and angry elements ...
... wind passing over a prairie of tall grass and flowers ; the other strikes a blow , that resounds through the wilderness of mind , like rolling thunder through a forest of oaks . The one fails , when strong commotions and angry elements ...
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... wind , which now became a hurricane , blowing from the south west , and carried the fire to the roofs of numerous buildings in a few minutes . A dense mass of human beings now thronged the streets and avenues in the neighborhood of the ...
... wind , which now became a hurricane , blowing from the south west , and carried the fire to the roofs of numerous buildings in a few minutes . A dense mass of human beings now thronged the streets and avenues in the neighborhood of the ...
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... wind then changed to the west , and drove the flames , in one broad , unbroken sheet , horizontally , so as to fire almost every thing in its course up the Monongahela river , until the work of destruction ceased for want of fuel ...
... wind then changed to the west , and drove the flames , in one broad , unbroken sheet , horizontally , so as to fire almost every thing in its course up the Monongahela river , until the work of destruction ceased for want of fuel ...
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