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... spirit of the ob- servation , if not the letter , will apply with nearly , though not altogether as much force , to the " Anti - Lucretius , sive de Deo et natura . " Yet , discarding these , what have we to enumerate ? The Agriculture ...
... spirit of the ob- servation , if not the letter , will apply with nearly , though not altogether as much force , to the " Anti - Lucretius , sive de Deo et natura . " Yet , discarding these , what have we to enumerate ? The Agriculture ...
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... spirit of independence , a na- tive love of the manners and the constitution of England ; and a grateful recollection of the asylum and friendships it afforded him when the first horrors of the revolution drove him from his native land ...
... spirit of independence , a na- tive love of the manners and the constitution of England ; and a grateful recollection of the asylum and friendships it afforded him when the first horrors of the revolution drove him from his native land ...
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... spirit appears in no instance to have forsaken him ; we have no fulsome compliments even in the work before us ; and we verily be- lieve that to this hour neither his heart nor his tongue has recanted the following pathetic eulogy to ...
... spirit appears in no instance to have forsaken him ; we have no fulsome compliments even in the work before us ; and we verily be- lieve that to this hour neither his heart nor his tongue has recanted the following pathetic eulogy to ...
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... spirit of M. Delambre ; while the ex- planatory notes are , for the most part , from the hand of M. Cuvier , one of the secretaries of the Institute , or of other men of letters , apparently , of the same establishment . In briefly ...
... spirit of M. Delambre ; while the ex- planatory notes are , for the most part , from the hand of M. Cuvier , one of the secretaries of the Institute , or of other men of letters , apparently , of the same establishment . In briefly ...
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... spirit as ever : we have the same exquisite facility of versification , and the same unrivalled variety of pause and construction . In this last respect Racine alone is superior to him ; if , indeed , he be surpassed by any one ...
... spirit as ever : we have the same exquisite facility of versification , and the same unrivalled variety of pause and construction . In this last respect Racine alone is superior to him ; if , indeed , he be surpassed by any one ...
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Page 108 - ... sun. And behold a man bent with age coming from the way of the wilderness leaning on a staff. And Abraham arose, and met him, and said unto him, ' Turn in, I pray thee, and wash thy feet, and tarry all night ; and thou shall arise early in the morning, and go on thy way.' And the man said, 'Nay; for I will abide under this tree.