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... feet , and the thickness of the wall about nine feet . In a survey of the time of Henry VIII . CHAPEL OF ST . JOHN . STAIRCASE IN THE WHITE TOWER . INTERIOR OF BEAUCHAMP TOWER. c 2 ANCIENT LONDON . 19.
... feet , and the thickness of the wall about nine feet . In a survey of the time of Henry VIII . CHAPEL OF ST . JOHN . STAIRCASE IN THE WHITE TOWER . INTERIOR OF BEAUCHAMP TOWER. c 2 ANCIENT LONDON . 19.
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... feet by six , and about a yard and a half high , with huge beams at intervals , against which , until taught to stoop by painful experience , you thump your forehead every time you attempt to cross . In the centre a deal table is ...
... feet by six , and about a yard and a half high , with huge beams at intervals , against which , until taught to stoop by painful experience , you thump your forehead every time you attempt to cross . In the centre a deal table is ...
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... feet in length ; but they were too wary to allow us to approach nearer than a few yards , diving as we came up to them . But far more numerous were those singularly beautiful Medusa ( Physalia pelagica ) . Almost all one day we were ...
... feet in length ; but they were too wary to allow us to approach nearer than a few yards , diving as we came up to them . But far more numerous were those singularly beautiful Medusa ( Physalia pelagica ) . Almost all one day we were ...
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... feet in length , of a silvery blue tint with opaline changes , called a king - fish , was upon our hook , but while one of the men was drawing it in , a shark scized it , and left deep marks of his serried fangs it was sadly lacerated ...
... feet in length , of a silvery blue tint with opaline changes , called a king - fish , was upon our hook , but while one of the men was drawing it in , a shark scized it , and left deep marks of his serried fangs it was sadly lacerated ...
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... feet square , and pre - eminently strong and beautiful . Whatever may be their future fate in life , however depressed by misfortune and roughshod by poverty , the Bedouin will sell every- thing , even his own children , before he will ...
... feet square , and pre - eminently strong and beautiful . Whatever may be their future fate in life , however depressed by misfortune and roughshod by poverty , the Bedouin will sell every- thing , even his own children , before he will ...
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Page 450 - Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees.
Page 322 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 451 - Report not. No fantastic carvings show The boast of our vain race to change the form Of thy fair works. But thou art here thou fill'st The solitude. Thou art in the soft winds That run along the summit of these trees In music ; thou art in the cooler breath That from the inmost darkness of the place Comes, scarcely felt ; the barky trunks, the ground, The fresh moist ground, are all instinct with thee.
Page 152 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills ! No tears Dim the sweet look that nature wears.
Page 404 - Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonas had; Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done. The rose withers, the blossom blasteth, The flower fades, the morning hasteth, The sun sets, the shadow flies, The gourd consumes, and man he dies!
Page 202 - ... bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore, From my home and my weeping friends never to part ; My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobbed aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with us, rest, thou art weary and worn...
Page 202 - I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Page 203 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Page 408 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases.
Page 135 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.