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... says , to let his father know what he was about , he was wont to apply to an old woman who lived in a neigh- boring cottage to solve his difficulties . In this way he actually learned to read tolerably well before his father had any ...
... says , to let his father know what he was about , he was wont to apply to an old woman who lived in a neigh- boring cottage to solve his difficulties . In this way he actually learned to read tolerably well before his father had any ...
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from the fulcrum . " I then , " says he , " thought that it was a great pity that by means of this bar , a weight could be raised but a very little way . On this , I soon imagined that by pulling round a wheel , the weight might be ...
from the fulcrum . " I then , " says he , " thought that it was a great pity that by means of this bar , a weight could be raised but a very little way . On this , I soon imagined that by pulling round a wheel , the weight might be ...
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... says he , " a thread with small beads on it , at arms - length , between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eye , in order to take their apparent distances from one another ; and ...
... says he , " a thread with small beads on it , at arms - length , between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eye , in order to take their apparent distances from one another ; and ...
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... says he , " that I should rejoice to be at his house , as soon as the time was expired for which I was engaged with my present master . He very politely of- fered to put one in my place , but this I declined . " When the period in ...
... says he , " that I should rejoice to be at his house , as soon as the time was expired for which I was engaged with my present master . He very politely of- fered to put one in my place , but this I declined . " When the period in ...
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... says , they " have a fair color , as if they were fit to be eaten ; but if you pluck them with your hand , they vanish into smoke and ashes . " Milton , who collected all of history or fable that could heighten the effect of his poem ...
... says , they " have a fair color , as if they were fit to be eaten ; but if you pluck them with your hand , they vanish into smoke and ashes . " Milton , who collected all of history or fable that could heighten the effect of his poem ...
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Sida 29 - Thou shalt ° not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Sida 348 - And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Sida 180 - Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green, So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Sida 226 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust Him out of the city, and led Him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast Him down headlong.
Sida 210 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of swedt harmony.
Sida 140 - It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves ; springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Sida 144 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Sida 57 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow ? or will he harrow the valleys after thee...
Sida 210 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Sida 403 - It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. " The insect youth are on the wing.