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1. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1893)
"Though all the fates should prove unkind, Leave not your native land behind.
The ship, becalmed, at length stands still; The steed must rest beneath the ..."
2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"Though all the fates should prove unkind, Leave not your native land behind.
The ship, becalmed, at length stands still j The steed must rest beneath the ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(37) to meet the Pannonian legions; and, at the same time, he vainly tried to
interrogate, or to appease, the fates, by magic ceremonies, and unlawful ..."
4. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... for fear, thus violently driven, The sparks should catch his axletree of
heav'n: Rememb'ring, in the Fates, a time when fire Should to the battlements ..."
5. The Pantheon: Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods, and by François Pomey (1784)
"... three old Ladies are the Fates : Their a Garments are made of Ermin, white as
Snow, and bordered with Purple. They were born either of 11 Nox and Erebus ..."
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