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We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks…
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the…
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You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be…
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The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
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Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary.…
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The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of…
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Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs - in…
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The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
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Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation…
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The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains,…
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I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and seen the…
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We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they are tossed…
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My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest…
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The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from…
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.
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I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet…
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On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I…
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Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of…
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy…
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