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A mind too that might out-soar the eagle, and gaze on the sun of truth! There must be some cause for my failure, if I fail With true simplicity of heart I can say, most earnestly do I wish to do right: most ardently would I endeavour to prove myself a friend worthy of Louisa Clifton, and of Frank Henley! Perhaps the latter is the cause? If I have done him wrong, Heaven forgive me!
Let me tell you, except you and I both mend our manners, though you have been no duellist, no libertine, as you call me, this amiable girl, whom your vanity and folly so much despise, will out-soar us both, infinitely out-soar us; and he who judges best, will give the preference where due, without regard to birth or fortune. Egregious preacher! said she: What, my brother already turned Puritan!
His method of securing amplitude was exactly opposite to that of Sangallo, who relied upon the multiplication rather than the simplification of details. A kind of organic unity was what Michelangelo desired. For this reason, he employed in the construction of S. Peter's those stupendous orders which out-soar the columns of Baalbec, and those grandiose curves which make the cupola majestic.
Suppose, on the great night of the first experiment with Toandoah's little rocket, Ta-te, jealous of a rival in the small Thunder Bird which could out-soar all the winds of Earth out-soar even the air, their cradle should meanly seize upon the black, silk parachute, light as soot, anchored to the golden egg, the little recording apparatus!
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