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Churchill, 1863 - 400 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 361 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Σελίδα 312 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Σελίδα 312 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord.
Σελίδα 353 - The Turkish dominions in his time comprised all the most celebrated cities of biblical and classical history, except Rome, Syracuse, and Persepolis. The sites of Carthage, Memphis, Tyre, Nineveh, Babylon, and Palmyra were Ottoman ground ; and the cities of Alexandria,
Σελίδα 358 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Σελίδα 248 - For valour, since deformity is daring. (') It is its essence to o'ertake mankind By heart and soul, and make itself the equal — Ay, the superior of the rest. There is A spur in its halt movements, to become All that the others cannot, in such things As still are free to both, to compensate For stepdame Nature's avarice at first.
Σελίδα 234 - to convey a just idea of their state, — the quantities of vermin are amazing! I have entered a room, and in a few minutes, I have felt them dropping on my hat from the ceiling like peas.' ' They may be gathered by handfuls,
Σελίδα 195 - ... from the lion that roams the desert wild, and the horse that tramps the battle field, or prances before the lady's equipage,* — up to Man, the master of them all, there is one all-pervading nervous system, progressively diminishing in a downward scale of analytic exhaustion, till it ends in...
Σελίδα 362 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Σελίδα 216 - ... that the brain of the Chimpanzee differs from the brain of man only in size and weight, therefore, in the smaller size and extent of its cerebral convolutions, the same parts without exception exist in both brains. Whether the cerebral matter of the ape differs from that of man in microscopic characters, or how otherwise it may differ are problems yet to be worked out. R. GARXEE, Es«., STOKE-UPON-TREKT. On the Reciprocal Action of Plant

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