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Page 220 - when shall we be stronger ? Will it be the next week, or the next year ? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house ? * * * Is life so dear or peace so
Page 165 - An infinitive depends on the word which it limits, or which leads to its use. " We were anxious to return that night." " The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell." " The definitions are so arranged as to be easily learned." To return limits anxious, by showing as to what
Page 206 - An officer on European and on Indian service are in very different situations. — S. SMITH. (Supply service and one.) Though virtue borrows no assistance from, yet it may often be accompanied by, the advantages of fortune. — BLAIR. So great a separation between two prepositions or other words that govern the same object. always produces
Page 221 - a sort of Runic rhyme, — To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Page 221 - Thou lingering star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary ! dear departed shade
Page 221 - Away they went, pell-mell, hurry-skurry, wild buffalo, wild horse, wild huntsman, with clang and clatter, and whoop and halloo, that made the forests ring." " On a sudden, open fly, with impetuous recoil and jarring sound, the
Page 15 - 1. On the fifth day of the month, | which I always keep holy, | I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, | in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer.
Page 15 - In order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, on the fifth day of the month, which I always keep holy.
Page 230 - puts forth the tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms, and bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; the third day comes a frost,
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