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... soon found three of the kittens- one behind the press , another on a shelf among the teacups , a third under some straw in the barn . Puss herself was not to be seen , but that was no matter : she was most likely up a tree or on the ...
... soon found three of the kittens- one behind the press , another on a shelf among the teacups , a third under some straw in the barn . Puss herself was not to be seen , but that was no matter : she was most likely up a tree or on the ...
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... soon begun . If you think it should not be done , Cast it away ; If yes when you think of it , Do it , I say . How many good notions , By long delay crost , Have to the world's damage- For ever been lost . How oft resolutions , Though ...
... soon begun . If you think it should not be done , Cast it away ; If yes when you think of it , Do it , I say . How many good notions , By long delay crost , Have to the world's damage- For ever been lost . How oft resolutions , Though ...
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... soon merged in a GENERAL EUROPEAN WAR - the war of the AUS- TRIAN SUCCESSION . Maria Theresa had succeeded her father in Austria , and the European powers had signed a promise to respect her claim ; but Frederic , King of Prussia ...
... soon merged in a GENERAL EUROPEAN WAR - the war of the AUS- TRIAN SUCCESSION . Maria Theresa had succeeded her father in Austria , and the European powers had signed a promise to respect her claim ; but Frederic , King of Prussia ...
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... soon at the head of four thousand men , ready to support his claim to the throne . He marched unop- posed to Edinburgh , defeated King George's troops at Preston- pans , and afterwards marched to Derby , but was obliged to retreat , and ...
... soon at the head of four thousand men , ready to support his claim to the throne . He marched unop- posed to Edinburgh , defeated King George's troops at Preston- pans , and afterwards marched to Derby , but was obliged to retreat , and ...
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... soon after accepted a peerage as Earl of Chatham , and retired in bad health to his country seat . During his absence , Charles Town- shend , Chancellor of the Exchequer , revived the fatal scheme of taxing the American colonies . A ...
... soon after accepted a peerage as Earl of Chatham , and retired in bad health to his country seat . During his absence , Charles Town- shend , Chancellor of the Exchequer , revived the fatal scheme of taxing the American colonies . A ...
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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.