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Some people remain in this condition as long as they live, and keep the ignorance of childhood, after they have lost its innocence; heaven has been shut, but the earth is still a prison to them.
The declination is the variation of the needle from the true meridian of a place. Inclination is the dip of the magnetic needle with a tendency to incline towards the earth. "What may that be, Uncle? Your information interests me." "Why, that the needle instead of dipping towards the pole as it does on earth, in the northern hemisphere, has an upward tendency."
As I have stated, the inhabitants of the spirit world are divided and subdivided into associations, or bodies, which in your world would be termed nations and states. For example, the nation to which I belong is represented by the American people. The nationalities of earth present different traits and characteristics which set them apart, though in a general aspect they present one whole.
Then even as there flashed upon her bewilderment this strange revelation of her own unfitness for association with boys whose mothers took care of them Jennings, the young footman, came to the door. "Is she awake, Miss Andrews?" he said, looking greatly edified by Andrews' astonished countenance. "What on earth ?" began Andrews.
Bewildered, agonized and helpless, it watches this great and mighty wind of God invading the remotest and fairest regions of the earth, rocking its foundations, deranging its equilibrium, sundering its nations, disrupting the homes of its peoples, wasting its cities, driving into exile its kings, pulling down its bulwarks, uprooting its institutions, dimming its light, and harrowing up the souls of its inhabitants.
The shades of night were falling onto the earth like a shower of darkness, and I saw nothing before me but the mountains, in the far distance. Presently, I saw some tents in the valley, into which I descended, and tried to make the first Arab I met understand in which direction I wanted to go.
The earth was elastic under his feet, the air tingling and mellow with a taste of growth; the flooded river chattered loudly like a creature half beside itself with joy.
The Dauphin and his suite were present on the occasion. It was on the 21st of October, 1783, at one o'clock p.m., that Roziers and Irelands took their leave of the earth for the first time.
They just lost themselves on the face of the earth, and were henceforth known to mankind by the generic name of "refugees" such of them as managed to get away alive.
She had obeyed the Emperor's summons in order to win approval and applause for her art, and to afford the monarch a little pleasure and cheer, and, instead, the love of the greatest of all men had flamed ardently from the earth, she had left her whole heart with him, and given herself and all that was in her into his power.
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