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... present . ' -- ' With all my heart , ' said Delmonté gaily , his French light - heartedness com- ing to the surface . After all , there is something fascinating in a soldier's life ; what is it ? It must be the uncertainty of it , the ...
... present . ' -- ' With all my heart , ' said Delmonté gaily , his French light - heartedness com- ing to the surface . After all , there is something fascinating in a soldier's life ; what is it ? It must be the uncertainty of it , the ...
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... present the same phenomena , but on a smaller scale ; and beyond this he would see no more ice , no more snow , except on some of the more elevated summits , here and there . This general view is most satisfac- tory ; and if De Saussure ...
... present the same phenomena , but on a smaller scale ; and beyond this he would see no more ice , no more snow , except on some of the more elevated summits , here and there . This general view is most satisfac- tory ; and if De Saussure ...
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... present a romantic va- riety of picturesque scenes . Nor do the waters form the only ele- ment in action on this ... presents the contrast of an ice - field ter- minating in smiling meadows or among golden crops , as if the gigantic ...
... present a romantic va- riety of picturesque scenes . Nor do the waters form the only ele- ment in action on this ... presents the contrast of an ice - field ter- minating in smiling meadows or among golden crops , as if the gigantic ...
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... present a moraine on one side only ; and some none at all . Again , a moraine is sometimes found where it could not have been formed . In such cases the nature of the débris shows that it must have been brought down from a higher ...
... present a moraine on one side only ; and some none at all . Again , a moraine is sometimes found where it could not have been formed . In such cases the nature of the débris shows that it must have been brought down from a higher ...
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... present a superficial extent which has been calculated at fourteen hundred and eighty - four square miles . Some of them are from ten to fifteen miles in length , and from one to two miles and a quarter in breadth , and some attain a ...
... present a superficial extent which has been calculated at fourteen hundred and eighty - four square miles . Some of them are from ten to fifteen miles in length , and from one to two miles and a quarter in breadth , and some attain a ...
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Página 372 - He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless — Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health, Truth breathed by cheerfulness. One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Página 354 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe and pale jessamine, The white pink and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Página 99 - It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Página 474 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Página 99 - They are like the troubled sea, that cannot rest; whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Página 90 - In his family, gentle, generous, good-humored, affectionate, self-denying: in society, a delightful example of complete gentlemanhood ; quite unspoiled by prosperity ; never obsequious to the great (or, worse still, to the base and mean, as some public men are forced to be in his and other countries) ; eager to acknowledge every contemporary's merit; always kind and affable...
Página 354 - Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Página 90 - ... the young members of his calling; in his professional bargains and mercantile dealings, delicately honest and grateful; one of the most charming masters of our lighter language; the constant friend to us and our nation ; to men of letters doubly dear, not for his wit and genius merely, but as an exemplar of goodness, probity, and pure life...
Página 226 - The rounded world is fair to see, Nine times folded in mystery: Though baffled seers cannot impart The secret of its laboring heart, Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast, And all is clear from east to west.
Página 474 - And thou, serenest moon, That with such holy face Dost look upon the earth Asleep in Night's embrace Tell me, in all thy round Hast thou not seen some spot Where miserable man Might find a happier lot? Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in woe, And a voice sweet but sad responded, No.