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Sea Lions, The
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Title: The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Release Date: December 30, 2003 [EBook #10545]
Language: English
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THE SEA LIONS;
or, The Lost Sealers.
By J. Fenimore Cooper.
Daughter of Faith, awake, arise, illume The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb Melt, and dispel, ye spectre doubts that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul
_Campbell._
_Complete in One Volume._
1860.
Preface.
If any thing connected with the hardness of the human heart could surprise us, it surely would be the indifference with which men live on, engrossed by their worldly objects, amid the sublime natural phenomena that so eloquently and unceasingly speak to their imaginations, affections, and judgments. So completely is the existence of the individual concentrated in self, and so regardless does