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... thousand years , The battle and the breeze . " I gazed on it with pride and pleasure , not having seen it before for nearly three years . A little land - bird flew from one to the other , and then towards us , seemingly seeking a ...
... thousand years , The battle and the breeze . " I gazed on it with pride and pleasure , not having seen it before for nearly three years . A little land - bird flew from one to the other , and then towards us , seemingly seeking a ...
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... thousand derive any benefit whatsoever from it . But we have heavy charges of a moral and social nature to bring against the use of tobacco , which we consider as an incentive to drunken habits ; as a waster of time ; as a waster of ...
... thousand derive any benefit whatsoever from it . But we have heavy charges of a moral and social nature to bring against the use of tobacco , which we consider as an incentive to drunken habits ; as a waster of time ; as a waster of ...
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... thousands have insensibly been drawn into the vortex of intemperance by the habit of smoking and chewing ! What wretchedness and misery , what disease and poverty , have these detestable practices inflicted upon individuals and families ...
... thousands have insensibly been drawn into the vortex of intemperance by the habit of smoking and chewing ! What wretchedness and misery , what disease and poverty , have these detestable practices inflicted upon individuals and families ...
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... thousands on these filthy customs , we admit that they have a legal right to do so . We have heard of noble lords spending 12007. a - year upon cigars alone ; and George IV.'s expenditure for tobacco and snuff , and the append- ages ...
... thousands on these filthy customs , we admit that they have a legal right to do so . We have heard of noble lords spending 12007. a - year upon cigars alone ; and George IV.'s expenditure for tobacco and snuff , and the append- ages ...
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... thousands of cases sacrificed , for the sake of a practice from which no benefit is ever derived , but which at best can be looked upon as low , degrading , and selfish . As to the effect upon the lower ranks of society , of the use of ...
... thousands of cases sacrificed , for the sake of a practice from which no benefit is ever derived , but which at best can be looked upon as low , degrading , and selfish . As to the effect upon the lower ranks of society , of the use of ...
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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.