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Page 238 - And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
Page 1 - Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
Page 13 - O you youths, Western youths, So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O pioneers!
Page 92 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 171 - If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should be no word written, of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished design.
Page 154 - If we think of it, all, that a University, or final highest School can do for us, is still but what the first School began doing,— teach us to read. We learn to read, in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of Books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the Books themselves! It depends on what we read...
Page 88 - Caesars ? and the Grecian chiefs, The boast of story ? where the hot-brained youth, Who the tiara at his pleasure tore From kings of all the then discovered globe, And cried, forsooth, because his arm was hampered And had not room enough to do its work ? Alas ! how slim, dishonourably slim, And crammed into a space we blush to name, Proud Royalty ! how altered in thy looks, How blank thy features, and how wan thy hue.
Page 140 - The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
Page 155 - We learn to read, in various languages, in various sciences ; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of Books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the Books themselves ! It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for us. The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
Page 4 - I graved my name on a tree by the river side ; and the Governor buried a bottle with a paper inclosed, on which he writ that he took possession of this place in the name and for King George the First of England...
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| Title | Representative Authors of West Virginia |
| Author | Warren Wood |
| Publisher | Worth-while book Company, 1926 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 322 pages |
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