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... side of the historian . The author in all his labors for the advancement of education , has endeavored to keep this fact continually in view . The object of this volume is to make the reader acquainted with particularly interesting and ...
... side of the historian . The author in all his labors for the advancement of education , has endeavored to keep this fact continually in view . The object of this volume is to make the reader acquainted with particularly interesting and ...
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... side of which was fifteen miles . Their breadth was eighty - seven feet , and their height three hundred and fifty . The walls were surrounded on the outside with a vast ditch , full of water , and lined with bricks on both sides . The ...
... side of which was fifteen miles . Their breadth was eighty - seven feet , and their height three hundred and fifty . The walls were surrounded on the outside with a vast ditch , full of water , and lined with bricks on both sides . The ...
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... side , and the wall on the other . These went round the four sides of the city next the walls , and were each of them two hundred feet broad . The rest were about one hundred and fifty . By these streets thus crossing each other , the ...
... side , and the wall on the other . These went round the four sides of the city next the walls , and were each of them two hundred feet broad . The rest were about one hundred and fifty . By these streets thus crossing each other , the ...
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... side of the outer wall , which , turning , by very slow degrees , in a spiral line , eight times round the tower , from the bottom to the top , had the same ap- pearance as if there had been eight towers placed In these different ...
... side of the outer wall , which , turning , by very slow degrees , in a spiral line , eight times round the tower , from the bottom to the top , had the same ap- pearance as if there had been eight towers placed In these different ...
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... sixty vessels across the strait , some of them having three banks of oars , and others fifty oars apiece . They then cast large anchors , on both sides , into the water , 3 JUVENILE COMPANION . 25 Xerxes crosses the Hellespont.
... sixty vessels across the strait , some of them having three banks of oars , and others fifty oars apiece . They then cast large anchors , on both sides , into the water , 3 JUVENILE COMPANION . 25 Xerxes crosses the Hellespont.
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Page 38 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 124 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, — For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, — And thou must die.
Page 18 - And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep...
Page 68 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He who made him such, Who centred in our make such strange extremes! From different natures marvellously mixed, Connection exquisite of distant worlds! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity!
Page 110 - Experience of it: Several of our Young People were formerly brought up at the Colleges of the Northern Provinces; they were instructed in all your Sciences; but when they came back to us, they were bad Runners, ignorant of every means of living in the Woods, unable to bear either Cold or Hunger, knew neither how to build a Cabin, take a Deer, or kill an Enemy, spoke our Language imperfectly; were therefore neither fit for Hunters, Warriors, or Counsellors; they were totally good for nothing. We are...
Page 28 - Content I live, this is my stay; I seek no more than may suffice ; I press to bear no haughty sway; Look, what I lack my mind supplies. Lo, thus I triumph like a king, Content with that my mind doth bring.
Page 53 - They sin who tell us Love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity ; In Heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell : Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth; But Love is indestructible : Its holy flame for ever burneth, From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.
Page 28 - Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store: They poor, I rich; they beg, I give; They lack, I leave; they pine, I live.
Page 16 - To BLOSSOMS FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or half's delight, And so to bid good-night?
Page 30 - LIKE to the falling of a star, Or as the flights of eagles are, Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue, Or silver drops of morning dew, Or like a wind that chafes the flood, Or bubbles which on water stood — Even such is man, whose borrow'd light Is straight call'd in, and paid to-night.