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... less than 5,225 feet , ( nearly a mile ) , across deep valleys , and over wide rivers , by means of arches . In many parts it is doubled or trebled , to command important passes ; and , at the distance of nearly every hundred yards , is ...
... less than 5,225 feet , ( nearly a mile ) , across deep valleys , and over wide rivers , by means of arches . In many parts it is doubled or trebled , to command important passes ; and , at the distance of nearly every hundred yards , is ...
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... less time than would be required to describe it , and with a dexterity only to be acquired by practice , the spectator being in continual apprehension for the safety of their fingers ' ends . The pin is now finished as to its form , but ...
... less time than would be required to describe it , and with a dexterity only to be acquired by practice , the spectator being in continual apprehension for the safety of their fingers ' ends . The pin is now finished as to its form , but ...
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... less brisk in proportion to the thickness of the needles , taking care to move them from time to time . This serves to temper them , and take off their brittleness . They are now straightened , one after another , with a hammer . The ...
... less brisk in proportion to the thickness of the needles , taking care to move them from time to time . This serves to temper them , and take off their brittleness . They are now straightened , one after another , with a hammer . The ...
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... less generally diffused than that of the lion . Like the lioness , however , the tigress produces four or five young ones at a birth . From her nature she is fierce at all times ; but when surrounded with her infant progeny , and in the ...
... less generally diffused than that of the lion . Like the lioness , however , the tigress produces four or five young ones at a birth . From her nature she is fierce at all times ; but when surrounded with her infant progeny , and in the ...
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... less instructed people , rose from their seats , and , with the greatest respect , received the old gentleman among them . The Athenians , being suddenly touched with a sense of the Lacedemonians ' virtue , and their own misconduct 57 ...
... less instructed people , rose from their seats , and , with the greatest respect , received the old gentleman among them . The Athenians , being suddenly touched with a sense of the Lacedemonians ' virtue , and their own misconduct 57 ...
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Popular passages
Page 65 - He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Page 58 - The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down...
Page 99 - No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword. No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Page 159 - What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet, From birds among the bowers.
Page 135 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? Tell me, my Soul, can this be Death?
Page 286 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church.
Page 95 - He that hath a Trade hath an Estate; and he that hath a Calling, hath an Office of Profit and Honour; but then the Trade must be worked at, and the Calling well followed, or neither the Estate nor the Office will enable us to pay our Taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, as Poor Richard says, At the working Man's House Hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Page 58 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 96 - The cat in gloves catches no mice, as Poor Richard says. It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for, Constant dropping wears away stones; and, By diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and Little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says in his almanac, the year I cannot just now remember.
Page 195 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.