Solarion: A Romance

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J.B. Lippincott Company, 1889 - 80 стор.

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Сторінка 424 - Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Сторінка 423 - We had for our chaplain a zealous Presbyterian minister, Mr. Beatty, who complained to me that the men did not generally attend his prayers and exhortations. When they enlisted, they were promised, besides pay and provisions, a gill of rum a day, which was punctually...
Сторінка 322 - Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the belief that all animals and plants are descended from some one prototype. But analogy may be a deceitful guide. Nevertheless all living things have much in common, in their chemical composition, their cellular structure, their laws of growth, and their liability to injurious influences.
Сторінка 322 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Сторінка 416 - And Curll must have a special care To leave the margin wide. Lend these to paper-sparing ' Pope ; And when he sits to write. No letter with an envelope Could give him more delight.
Сторінка 421 - The place wherein the young men study now is in contempt called the College. It is a log house, about twenty feet long, and near as many broad ; and to me it seemed to resemble the school of the old prophets...
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Сторінка 370 - ... me up ! Though a pledge I had to shiver, And the longest ever was, Ere his vessel leaves our river, I would drink a health to Boz ! Here's success to all his antics, Since it pleases him to roam, And to paddle o'er Atlantics, After such a sale at home ! May he shun all rocks whatever, And each shallow sand that lurks, And his passage be as clever As the best among his works...

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