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... least as their appointed sphere , wherein to earn a fortune or win a husband : and there was by no means that bitter and contemptuous mode of speaking of the natives which has of late years be- come the fashion . About four years after ...
... least as their appointed sphere , wherein to earn a fortune or win a husband : and there was by no means that bitter and contemptuous mode of speaking of the natives which has of late years be- come the fashion . About four years after ...
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... least , let her make the tour in your com- pany , instead of her father's ? " 66 Exactly what I urged : you know there is no earthly reason why we should not . I am making more than £ 900 per annum now , besides £ 200 a year of my own ...
... least , let her make the tour in your com- pany , instead of her father's ? " 66 Exactly what I urged : you know there is no earthly reason why we should not . I am making more than £ 900 per annum now , besides £ 200 a year of my own ...
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... least to die for it . " their enemies . They , on the other hand , The mental strain of her brave bearing were not slow in self - defence and counter- brought on illness and death at the age of attack . There is small interest now in ...
... least to die for it . " their enemies . They , on the other hand , The mental strain of her brave bearing were not slow in self - defence and counter- brought on illness and death at the age of attack . There is small interest now in ...
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... least twice as numerous , will scarcely accompanied by a new creed , could avail to join in his pæans over the approaching shake the European grasp . What could reign of a Parisian Paradise on earth . fanaticism do for the capture of a ...
... least twice as numerous , will scarcely accompanied by a new creed , could avail to join in his pæans over the approaching shake the European grasp . What could reign of a Parisian Paradise on earth . fanaticism do for the capture of a ...
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... least to predict when or by what precise road that issue will be reached . In reference to the Italian question three events have to be noted . The first Italian Parliament has met at Turin , and has been opened by Victor Emmanuel in a ...
... least to predict when or by what precise road that issue will be reached . In reference to the Italian question three events have to be noted . The first Italian Parliament has met at Turin , and has been opened by Victor Emmanuel in a ...
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Page 434 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot, the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed; No costly lord, the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal: But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
Page 524 - The place of justice is a hallowed place; and therefore not only the Bench, but the foot pace and precincts and purprise thereof ought to be preserved without scandal and corruption.
Page 196 - Gallow .the very wanderers of the dark, And make them keep their caves : since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never Remember to have heard : man's nature cannot carry The affliction nor the fear.
Page 292 - Whose color was extremely hectic ; Her grandmother for many a year Had fed the parish with her bounty ; Her second cousin was a peer, And Lord-Lieutenant of the county.
Page 86 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 69 - And Paul said; I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Page 187 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 292 - Dark was her hair, her hand was white; Her voice was exquisitely tender; Her eyes were full of liquid light; I never saw a waist so slender; Her every look, her every smile, Shot right and left a score of arrows; I thought 'twas Venus from her isle, And wondered where she'd left her sparrows.
Page 179 - And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Page 196 - Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire ; and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Alack, alack! 'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all.