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... perhaps , B.C. 3000. Greatest , 461 feet high ; area covered about 12 acres . ( Give some idea how much this is . ) Site , Ghizeh , near Cairo . Built to face due N. S. E.W. Purpose , sepulchral . Empty sarcophagus found in Great ...
... perhaps , B.C. 3000. Greatest , 461 feet high ; area covered about 12 acres . ( Give some idea how much this is . ) Site , Ghizeh , near Cairo . Built to face due N. S. E.W. Purpose , sepulchral . Empty sarcophagus found in Great ...
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... perhaps means aether , through which the earth is corceived as forcing her way . + " Supreme " : this is unscientific : no good reason can be given for calling earth " supreme " among the planets . Empty verbiage : see p . 3 . It is not ...
... perhaps means aether , through which the earth is corceived as forcing her way . + " Supreme " : this is unscientific : no good reason can be given for calling earth " supreme " among the planets . Empty verbiage : see p . 3 . It is not ...
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... perhaps art tost On these , or in some oozy cavern lost ! " Thus thought Arion ; anxious gazing round In vain , his eyes no more Palemon found : The demons§ of destruction hover nigh , And thick their mortal shafts commission'd fly ...
... perhaps art tost On these , or in some oozy cavern lost ! " Thus thought Arion ; anxious gazing round In vain , his eyes no more Palemon found : The demons§ of destruction hover nigh , And thick their mortal shafts commission'd fly ...
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... perhaps once dearly prized by some one - desolation of garden beds , & c . - Wordsworth's affecting lines : — \ Ah ! what a warning for a thoughtless man , Could field or grove , could any spot on earth , Show to his eye an image of the ...
... perhaps once dearly prized by some one - desolation of garden beds , & c . - Wordsworth's affecting lines : — \ Ah ! what a warning for a thoughtless man , Could field or grove , could any spot on earth , Show to his eye an image of the ...
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... perhaps floating on some chance raft . Hints , & c . : - EXERCISE 74 . ADVENTURE WITH A BOA . Description of jungle - imagine sensations of travellers , admiration of natural sights , tropical vegetation . Party rest during heat of day ...
... perhaps floating on some chance raft . Hints , & c . : - EXERCISE 74 . ADVENTURE WITH A BOA . Description of jungle - imagine sensations of travellers , admiration of natural sights , tropical vegetation . Party rest during heat of day ...
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Page 123 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 122 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 121 - And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 158 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 32 - Far in the bosom of Helvellyn, Remote from public Road or Dwelling, Pathway, or cultivated land ; From trace of human foot or hand. There, sometimes does a leaping Fish Send through the Tarn a lonely cheer...
Page 165 - Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things.
Page 130 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.
Page 34 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Page 168 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.