The Living Age, Volumen 263E. Littell & Company, 1909 |
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... better type , or fitter in any sense but one , than the horses and dogs it has driven out of existence . Or again , there is the well- known case of the Madeira beetles . There are over 200 species of these in- sects in the island which ...
... better type , or fitter in any sense but one , than the horses and dogs it has driven out of existence . Or again , there is the well- known case of the Madeira beetles . There are over 200 species of these in- sects in the island which ...
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... better ? " A placable , tactful fellow this , you perceive , who had been known to permit Philip sober to recall the cartel despatched by Philip in his cups . ' Twas a duelling age : the crack of the pistol rings out sharply and often ...
... better ? " A placable , tactful fellow this , you perceive , who had been known to permit Philip sober to recall the cartel despatched by Philip in his cups . ' Twas a duelling age : the crack of the pistol rings out sharply and often ...
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... better been applied to some other use . Indeed , had I not fol- lowed the guiding hand I should have doubted the existence of a village so called . And this reminds me that scat- tered up and down the map you may still find names not ...
... better been applied to some other use . Indeed , had I not fol- lowed the guiding hand I should have doubted the existence of a village so called . And this reminds me that scat- tered up and down the map you may still find names not ...
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... better of you than to be dismissed ! her- Without Without her I shouldn't St. John . have had your help . Sir C. Exactly , since you care to put it that way . St. John . Well , since I care to put it that way , Sir Charles , I don't ...
... better of you than to be dismissed ! her- Without Without her I shouldn't St. John . have had your help . Sir C. Exactly , since you care to put it that way . St. John . Well , since I care to put it that way , Sir Charles , I don't ...
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... better reading than the story of a dash for the Pole , and there are val- leys in Albania still untrodden by any Western European since the Latins trampled through them in the effort to subdue the Eastern Empire . Time has its romance ...
... better reading than the story of a dash for the Pole , and there are val- leys in Albania still untrodden by any Western European since the Latins trampled through them in the effort to subdue the Eastern Empire . Time has its romance ...
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Página 481 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Página 614 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Página 163 - How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and Fox alone.
Página 229 - The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows!
Página 550 - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
Página 229 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter— the wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his sleep.
Página 162 - King James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear or see their foes Until at weapon-point they close. — They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air: Oh!
Página 528 - Thou canst not prove thou art immortal, no Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with thyself, For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven...
Página 71 - Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.
Página 248 - I dare say he thinks he has done a mighty thing. He won't stay till he gets home to his seat in the country, to produce this wonderful deed: hell call up the landlord of the first inn on the road; and, after a suitable preface upon mortality and the uncertainty of life, will tell him that he should not delay making his will; and here, Sir...