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During these spare moments the employee leaves her station in the street , and sits at the curbstone , where she has provided herself with a wooden bench . An occasional policeman saunters along and stops to pass the time of day and to ...
During these spare moments the employee leaves her station in the street , and sits at the curbstone , where she has provided herself with a wooden bench . An occasional policeman saunters along and stops to pass the time of day and to ...
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Too often he fails - and he passes— But the " Standard " an Ideal will leave . And we build it an altar of Memory And hold it forever above , As we measure the Pigmies of Passion On the lines of this child of our love .
Too often he fails - and he passes— But the " Standard " an Ideal will leave . And we build it an altar of Memory And hold it forever above , As we measure the Pigmies of Passion On the lines of this child of our love .
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And as Isaac saw these things he determined to leave the shops , with their roaring machines and become a man and live in the open air and sunlight . Three days later he came home in the afternoon to the surprise of his mother .
And as Isaac saw these things he determined to leave the shops , with their roaring machines and become a man and live in the open air and sunlight . Three days later he came home in the afternoon to the surprise of his mother .
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And as Isaac saw these things he determined to leave the shops , with their roaring machines and become a man and live in the open air and sunlight . Three days later he came home in the afternoon to the surprise of his mother .
And as Isaac saw these things he determined to leave the shops , with their roaring machines and become a man and live in the open air and sunlight . Three days later he came home in the afternoon to the surprise of his mother .
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In fact , our bodies were so hard that a blow from a bar of iron would bend it , but leave our bodies unhurt . With your knives you could no more cut our flesh than you could cut yonder rock . " Another advantage we had over you people ...
In fact , our bodies were so hard that a blow from a bar of iron would bend it , but leave our bodies unhurt . With your knives you could no more cut our flesh than you could cut yonder rock . " Another advantage we had over you people ...
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Page 216 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 216 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
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Page 117 - Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful — as the musician gathers his notes, and forms hia chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony.
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