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"Where'er we roam, whatever realms to see, Our hearts untravell'd fondly turn to thee; Still to our country turn, with ceaseless pain, And drag, at each remove, a lengthening chain." The Author proceeds to London. Re-embarks for Africa. Arrives at Madeira. Observations on that Island. Prosecution of the Voyage, and Arrival in the Sierra Leone River, &c. The next morning Mr.
Now if we know so little as to the history of our own and neighboring worlds in the past, and have no revelation as to their future, is it likely that we would be informed as to details of some world of purification located probably away in the realms of space? Then this sun of ours is fourteen hundred thousand times larger than the earth. But we know almost nothing of his constitution or history.
Ptolemy Ceraunus had made a treaty of alliance with him, and had furnished him with troops for recruiting and re-enforcing his armies in Italy, as has already been stated; but Antigonus, when called upon, had refused to do this. This, of course, gave Pyrrhus ample justification, as he imagined, for his intended incursion into the Macedonian realms.
In both you get the sense of being at the limits of the world, of having beyond you only nonmaterial and magical realms: Peng-lai in the East, Hy Brasil in the West; the Fortunate Islands of the Sunset, and the Fortunate Islands of the Dawn.
Come and compare Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek, With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer."
The whole air was laden with a subdued music, lined, as it were, with a golden vibrancy of tintinnabulary cadence distant, subdued, hardly more than a whisper, yet part of the air itself. It gave him the feeling that he was in a dream. In the realms of the subconscious he had heard just such sounds exotic and unearthly fleeting and evanescent.
An officer immediately got up and went out with the sergeant, one of the speakers meanwhile suggesting that Brother Bosche was certainly going to visit realms of higher kultur than he had hitherto known.
He saw that war would come sooner or later, and his first business was to develop the military resources of his realms. The German army, which was the outgrowth of the early reforms of William I, is so extraordinary a feature of the Europe of to-day, that its organization merits attention.
I draw cheques when I want any money, and now and then I get a letter from the bank manager to say my account is overdrawn. I go to see him; my deed-box is fetched up from the realms below, the manager sells something for me, and so I go along till the next time." "Then you are living on your capital!" cried Mark. "What else can I live upon?" she demanded. "The interest naturally."
A mad world with a lunatic to govern it; a democracy of many princes, little and big, fighting amongst each other, and falling into daily changing combinations as some masterly or mischievous hand whirled the kaleidoscope; drinking Rhenish by hogsheads, and beer by the tun; robbing churches, dictating creeds to their subjects, and breaking all the commandments themselves; a people at the bottom dimly striving towards religious freedom and political life out of abject social, ecclesiastical, and political serfdom, and perhaps even then dumbly feeling within its veins, with that prophetic instinct which never abandons great races, a far distant and magnificent Future of national unity and Imperial splendour, the very reverse of the confusion which was then the hideous Present; an Imperial family at top with many heads and slender brains; a band of brothers and cousins wrangling, intriguing, tripping up each others' heels, and unlucky Rudolph, in his Hradschin, looking out of window over the peerless Prague, spread out in its beauteous landscape of hill and dale, darkling forest, dizzy cliffs, and rushing river, at his feet, feebly cursing the unhappy city for its ingratitude to an invisible and impotent sovereign; his excellent brother Matthias meanwhile marauding through the realms and taking one crown after another from his poor bald head.
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