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... Mountain Stream 264 • • 125 Columbus ' First Voyage , 265 • Lost in the Woods , 128 River Systems , 266 Winter , 135 To a Water - Fowl , 271 The House of Hanover ( 6 ) , 138 Events and Dates , 272 The Shoemaker , 143 First Exercises in ...
... Mountain Stream 264 • • 125 Columbus ' First Voyage , 265 • Lost in the Woods , 128 River Systems , 266 Winter , 135 To a Water - Fowl , 271 The House of Hanover ( 6 ) , 138 Events and Dates , 272 The Shoemaker , 143 First Exercises in ...
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... mountain . What is meant by the Seven - hilled City ? Rome ; because it is built on seven hills . What is meant by Dun - Edin ? It is the old name of Edinburgh . TO - DAY AND TO - MORROW . Do not tell me of to - morrow , There is much ...
... mountain . What is meant by the Seven - hilled City ? Rome ; because it is built on seven hills . What is meant by Dun - Edin ? It is the old name of Edinburgh . TO - DAY AND TO - MORROW . Do not tell me of to - morrow , There is much ...
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... mountain chains which more than double the altitude of our loftiest English summits , and plains which rival in their immensity and monotonous uni- formity the steppes of Russia , or the prairies of the New World ; tracts which , in ...
... mountain chains which more than double the altitude of our loftiest English summits , and plains which rival in their immensity and monotonous uni- formity the steppes of Russia , or the prairies of the New World ; tracts which , in ...
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... mountain chains higher than any of the mountains in Britain , and exten- sive plains . How long is it since the first British colonists landed on the shores of Australia ? It was on the 26th of January 1788 , little more than eighty ...
... mountain chains higher than any of the mountains in Britain , and exten- sive plains . How long is it since the first British colonists landed on the shores of Australia ? It was on the 26th of January 1788 , little more than eighty ...
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... mountains or high plateaux , on the contrary , tends to render the climate extreme . A mountain chain may interrupt cold winds , and cause the plains on one side to be warmer than those on the other . Thus the Carpathians shelter ...
... mountains or high plateaux , on the contrary , tends to render the climate extreme . A mountain chain may interrupt cold winds , and cause the plains on one side to be warmer than those on the other . Thus the Carpathians shelter ...
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Page 271 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 201 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 110 - 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.
Page 201 - Though graced with polished manners and fine sense (Yet wanting sensibility), the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Page 271 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 124 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours ; nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright.
Page 64 - A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
Page 111 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 124 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Page 55 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.