The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture, 1. köideMichael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke Hanson-Roach-Fowler Company, 1917 |
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Page 8
... famous epithet , " Unspeakable Turk . " He was the son of Sul- tan Abd - ul- Medjid , and succeeded to the throne on the deposition of his elder brother , Sultan Murad V , in 1876. Tur- key at that time was in a disturbed con- dition ...
... famous epithet , " Unspeakable Turk . " He was the son of Sul- tan Abd - ul- Medjid , and succeeded to the throne on the deposition of his elder brother , Sultan Murad V , in 1876. Tur- key at that time was in a disturbed con- dition ...
Page 9
... famous through- out the world for the extent to which it has carried municipal ownership . All public utili- ties , including electric tram - car service , gas and water works , electric light , public baths , markets and cemeteries ...
... famous through- out the world for the extent to which it has carried municipal ownership . All public utili- ties , including electric tram - car service , gas and water works , electric light , public baths , markets and cemeteries ...
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... famous for many sieges . In 1104 it was taken by the Cru- saders ( see CRUSADES ) . In 1187 the Saracens recaptured it , but it was recovered by Richard Coeur de Leon , who gave it to the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem . In 1291 it ...
... famous for many sieges . In 1104 it was taken by the Cru- saders ( see CRUSADES ) . In 1187 the Saracens recaptured it , but it was recovered by Richard Coeur de Leon , who gave it to the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem . In 1291 it ...
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... famous women of Revolutionary times and the early days of the American republic . Dur- ing her childhood she was always delicate , and her education , so far as book - learning went , was slight . But she read extensively and in later ...
... famous women of Revolutionary times and the early days of the American republic . Dur- ing her childhood she was always delicate , and her education , so far as book - learning went , was slight . But she read extensively and in later ...
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... famous doctrine . Affectionate with his family , Adams had toward most people a cold , repellant manner , and it is not strange that " no man of pure life and just purposes ever had fewer friends or more enemies . " Short , stout and ...
... famous doctrine . Affectionate with his family , Adams had toward most people a cold , repellant manner , and it is not strange that " no man of pure life and just purposes ever had fewer friends or more enemies . " Short , stout and ...
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Page 458 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Page 205 - My native country, thee, — Land of the noble free, — Thy name I love : I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills ; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Page 208 - THE skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere, The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year ; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir: It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Page 603 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible, swift sword. His truth is marching on.
Page 234 - Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did ; " and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Page 523 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred.
Page 207 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 455 - For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine ; But we've wander'd mony a weary foot Sin auld lang syne.
Page 378 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.