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Strona 15
... turned to very good account . But while , for previous reasons , I do not think it likely America can buy Cuba ; I have not the same horror that some express at the idea of her taking it . I also differ from those who think that the ...
... turned to very good account . But while , for previous reasons , I do not think it likely America can buy Cuba ; I have not the same horror that some express at the idea of her taking it . I also differ from those who think that the ...
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... turned to water in our veins , nor the old fire of the heart become a putrid phosphor . It is a piece of unworthy prejudice to pretend that our leading writers are only second editions of European celebri- ties . Cooper is no more an ...
... turned to water in our veins , nor the old fire of the heart become a putrid phosphor . It is a piece of unworthy prejudice to pretend that our leading writers are only second editions of European celebri- ties . Cooper is no more an ...
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... most crowded paths of pleasure turned back , by circuitous cour- ses , in never - ending circles . I resolved to abandon these pastures of gregarious man . But before abandoning I them , I tested them by experience . I 32 [ Jan.
... most crowded paths of pleasure turned back , by circuitous cour- ses , in never - ending circles . I resolved to abandon these pastures of gregarious man . But before abandoning I them , I tested them by experience . I 32 [ Jan.
Strona 38
... turned towards the setting sun , listening to the swelling and harmonious cadences of Weber , pro- duced by a self - playing instrument of the rarest workmanship , which I had pur- chased at Paris for an enormous sum , of its inventor ...
... turned towards the setting sun , listening to the swelling and harmonious cadences of Weber , pro- duced by a self - playing instrument of the rarest workmanship , which I had pur- chased at Paris for an enormous sum , of its inventor ...
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... turned to the chan- delier , exclaims , " No one yet ! it's diaboli- cal , and so many wax lights burning ! " Next , the mistress of the house points out a lank fellow busily consuming ice - cream . " A calamity , that chap , " she says ...
... turned to the chan- delier , exclaims , " No one yet ! it's diaboli- cal , and so many wax lights burning ! " Next , the mistress of the house points out a lank fellow busily consuming ice - cream . " A calamity , that chap , " she says ...
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Strona 9 - ... it is scarcely possible to resist the conviction that the annexation of Cuba to our federal republic will be indispensable to the continuance and integrity of the Union itself.
Strona 275 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Strona 161 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life •uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...
Strona 9 - ... there are laws of political as well as of physical gravitation; and if an apple, severed by the tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only towards the North American Union, which, by the same law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom.
Strona 216 - The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
Strona 9 - Cuba, almost in sight of our shores, from a multitude of considerations has become an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union. Its commanding position, with reference to the Gulf of Mexico and the West India seas; the character of its population, its situation midway between our Southern coast and the Island of St.
Strona 15 - THE WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS. A MIST was driving down the British Channel, The day was just begun. And through the window-panes, on floor and panel, Streamed the red autumn sun. It glanced on flowing flag and rippling And the white sails of ships ; And, from the frowning rampart, the black cannon Hailed it with feverish lips.
Strona 15 - Ports. Him shall no sunshine from the fields of azure, No drum-beat from the wall, No morning gun from the black fort's...
Strona 160 - With the bloody, blind film before my eyes, there was a still stranger hum in my head, as if a hornet were there; and I thought to myself, Great God! this is Death! Yet these thoughts were unmixed with alarm. Like frost-work that flashes and shifts its scared hues in the sun, all my braided, blended emotions were in themselves icy cold and calm. "So protracted did my fall seem, that I can even now recall the feeling of wondering how much longer it would be, ere all was over and I struck.
Strona 160 - ... in my ear! One was a soft moaning, as of low waves on the beach; the other wild and heartlessly jubilant, as of the sea in the height of a tempest. Oh soul! thou then heardest life and death: as he who stands upon the Corinthian shore hears both the Ionian and the Aegean waves.