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... specialty Is before you; elI the world seems circumscribed to scrip and.tbebudget.- In fine, whatever the-calling, let men 117tfitlvata that calling, and they are as rranow.mlnded a e Chinese when they place on the- map of the world the Oelestial emplre; with ...

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... very cruel: it's very lonely; ?? very odd ! I don't belong to the world any more, I have done with it. I am shelved away. Bat m. spirit returns and flitters through the world, which it ha-s no longer anything to do with: and my ghost as it were, comes ...

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... I SCRAP-BOOK COLUMN. DurcK-SIOoTiNG IN ALnBANA.-Let us encamp oo this tussock of rushes, but first carefully part them in the middle (as the British youth does his back hair), and then sit very delicately down, lest any of the spear-like points should ...

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... the spot where the accidenthap. pened.. Not being able to 'get a chance of shdo'U*. they threw their guns from them and could scarcely restrained from rushing on the fiere animal with their knives only. The bear all the time kept looking. fast at one, then ...

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... stiff-necked, blind-eyed proeligalitJ natural to us, will denude the world of its mantoes stores, and so deprive the future of its food; atd 11e BMalthasians are afraid that the world will get seer stocked with haman animals, and that the &rylig generations ...

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... testimony she thus bore over the corpse of her dead son to his opinions while living, drew from these who stood nearest a cry of admiration, wshich spread rapidly from mouth to mouth through the crowd; the enthusiasm for the beautiful had seized upon them ...

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... only partially draped, May call up ideas from which, were it quite rude, a beholder would have escaped. To the pure all things are pure, is a very old story indeed Contained, in fact, in the very books from which a Ad Christian mother draws her creed; ...

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... his bed, routed which was coiled a rope of camol's hairM apology for tha turban. His inner garsaents were coM. pletel, hid from ?? view by a most Mlthy burneoss (I dcoa), of which the strength of the material hlid sarpea& ed the strength of the colour ...

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... his mane like a conqueror's bloody plumes, And-quietly wags his tail. [From War Waits, by Gerald Massey, who, in- these rough-aud-ready war-rhymes, as he calls them, writes from the heart of the true poet to the heart of the nation. In these verses are ...

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... interest and magical splendour. Hun. dreds of lights are glancing in different directions, from the villages, towns, farms, and plantations on shore, and from tha magnificent floating palaces of steamers, that frequently lcok like moving mountains ...

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... I TEHE SCRAP-BOOK COtUMN. 0 Tre ANT AND THE Cxncx.-The beautifud insect, which in this quarter of the world aboundsmn such numbers sad variety on every tree, and of which more has been sung than said since the days-of Anacreon to. the present time, possesses ...

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... debtor, Oh ! his Poor eyes nearly start from each sooket; Working out castings the longer the better, Bringing the grist to his governors pocket. Week after week, the same dull monotoay, Frigid sad clean, and free from all fault, Looked upon much like a Moovict ...