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... living God . On his return to college , he still attended the theological classes , and devoted some hours to the private tuition of advanced pupils , whom he continued to instruct during the following summer . About the end of 1796 he ...
... living God . On his return to college , he still attended the theological classes , and devoted some hours to the private tuition of advanced pupils , whom he continued to instruct during the following summer . About the end of 1796 he ...
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... living , to have the pleasure of being revenged on all of you for your determined silence and perseverance therein to the end . " Hearing about the middle of August , that a Bombay cruiser had touched at Aleppo , between Quilon and ...
... living , to have the pleasure of being revenged on all of you for your determined silence and perseverance therein to the end . " Hearing about the middle of August , that a Bombay cruiser had touched at Aleppo , between Quilon and ...
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... living nails with pure vexation to think how much I have been thwarted by indis- position . If , however , I get over it , I shall think the better of my constitution as long as I live . It is not every constitution that can resist the ...
... living nails with pure vexation to think how much I have been thwarted by indis- position . If , however , I get over it , I shall think the better of my constitution as long as I live . It is not every constitution that can resist the ...
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... living remained unaltered . He still preserved those frugal , almost abstemious habits which had been necessary at college . Yet he did not hoard up his money ; but devoted it to the advancement of his own learning , to the accumulation ...
... living remained unaltered . He still preserved those frugal , almost abstemious habits which had been necessary at college . Yet he did not hoard up his money ; but devoted it to the advancement of his own learning , to the accumulation ...
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... met my earliest view ! How soft ye smiled , when Nature's charms were new ! Green was her vesture , glowing , fresh , and warm , And every opening grace had power to charm ; A While , as each scene in living lustre rose ,
... met my earliest view ! How soft ye smiled , when Nature's charms were new ! Green was her vesture , glowing , fresh , and warm , And every opening grace had power to charm ; A While , as each scene in living lustre rose ,
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Page 4 - I write of youth, of love, and have access By these, to sing of cleanly wantonness ; I sing of dews, of rains, and, piece by piece, Of balm, of oil, of spice, and ambergris ; I sing...
Page 44 - Chieftain's woe, Far from the maid he loved so dear, The song arose, so soft and slow, He seem'd her parting sigh to hear. The lonely deck he paces o'er, Impatient for the rising day, And still, from Crinan's moonlight shore, He turns his eyes to Colonsay.
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Page 153 - The gentleman hereat wondered, and forthwith, in English, saluted the woman, who joyfully answered him ; and said she was right glad there to see a gentleman of our isle : and told him that she was a Scottish woman, and came first from Scotland to Venice...
Page 35 - In Keeldar's plume the holly green, And rowan leaves, nod on, And vain Lord Soulis's sword was seen, Though the hilt was adderstone. Then up the Wee Brown Man he rose, By Soulis of Liddesdale ; " In vain," he said, " a thousand blows Assail the charmed mail.