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... leaves , BLA LACK'S GENERAL ATLAS of the WORLD . NEW EDITION , REVISED and CORRECTED through . 57,000 Names . out ; with numerous additional Maps , and an Index of The Work is in every respect accommodated to the pre- sent advanced ...
... leaves , BLA LACK'S GENERAL ATLAS of the WORLD . NEW EDITION , REVISED and CORRECTED through . 57,000 Names . out ; with numerous additional Maps , and an Index of The Work is in every respect accommodated to the pre- sent advanced ...
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... leaves , with simple bell - shaped flowers which appear in July or August . Like the potato , it will grow in all cli- mates . It is raised in Germany , Sweden , France , and Spain , and was formerly cultivated to some extent in England ...
... leaves , with simple bell - shaped flowers which appear in July or August . Like the potato , it will grow in all cli- mates . It is raised in Germany , Sweden , France , and Spain , and was formerly cultivated to some extent in England ...
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... leaves , which continue to be renewed for twelve to fifteen years , when they disappear . The branches proceed from the trunk at intervals , in whorls of from six to eight . They are largest near the ground , and at the top termi- nate ...
... leaves , which continue to be renewed for twelve to fifteen years , when they disappear . The branches proceed from the trunk at intervals , in whorls of from six to eight . They are largest near the ground , and at the top termi- nate ...
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... leaves me without blame , and she will live so I am sure . If I should die - I may perhaps while she is still young ; I have lost some cour- age in a few hours -- she ' ll find that I remembered her , and loved her to the last ! This is ...
... leaves me without blame , and she will live so I am sure . If I should die - I may perhaps while she is still young ; I have lost some cour- age in a few hours -- she ' ll find that I remembered her , and loved her to the last ! This is ...
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... leaves are pulled , the age of the tea plant , and other eircumstances . The fresh young leaves from the upper branches or young shoots of trees not too old or overgrown , constitute the finest flavoured and strongest tea , commonly ...
... leaves are pulled , the age of the tea plant , and other eircumstances . The fresh young leaves from the upper branches or young shoots of trees not too old or overgrown , constitute the finest flavoured and strongest tea , commonly ...
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Página 329 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Página 326 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Página 85 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came ; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Página 40 - Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service; and many of them have set too high a value upon me, though others wish, and would be glad of my death ; but, Lord, however Thou do dispose of me, continue and go on to do good for them.
Página 250 - There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Página 328 - When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Página 25 - ... would it be too bold to imagine, that all warmblooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity...
Página 85 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on...
Página 286 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Página 106 - OH, when I was a tiny boy, My days and nights were full of joy, My mates were blithe and kind ! — No wonder that I sometimes sigh, And dash the teardrop from my eye, To cast a look behind ! A hoop was an eternal round Of pleasure. In those days I found A top a joyous thing ; — But now those past delights I drop, My head, alas ! is all my top, And careful thoughts the string ! My marbles — once my bag was...