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... sure that , with your quickness and penetration , Miss Saltoun will never be able to obtain spirits without your knowing of it , and I am confident that your good feeling as a woman will induce you to assist with all your might Mr ...
... sure that , with your quickness and penetration , Miss Saltoun will never be able to obtain spirits without your knowing of it , and I am confident that your good feeling as a woman will induce you to assist with all your might Mr ...
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... sure he would seek to break the intelligence to her with all tenderness , and to save her from her own reflections under that terrible reaction which invariably follows those at- tacks . I believe in all this he perfectly succeeded ...
... sure he would seek to break the intelligence to her with all tenderness , and to save her from her own reflections under that terrible reaction which invariably follows those at- tacks . I believe in all this he perfectly succeeded ...
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... sure to bring him a summons ; and I knew quite well what a pile of tiny three - cornered pink - tinted notes he had treasured up . When I encountered Miss Otway in soci- ety - which , however , from my onerous avo- cations , I was ...
... sure to bring him a summons ; and I knew quite well what a pile of tiny three - cornered pink - tinted notes he had treasured up . When I encountered Miss Otway in soci- ety - which , however , from my onerous avo- cations , I was ...
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... sure way of passing signals to the guard of a railway - train while in motion , whereby passengers may give timely warning of fire , breakage of wheels , and the like ; we want improved means of vehicular locomotion in streets which ...
... sure way of passing signals to the guard of a railway - train while in motion , whereby passengers may give timely warning of fire , breakage of wheels , and the like ; we want improved means of vehicular locomotion in streets which ...
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... sure would have rudely shaken the fabric of soci- of finding free labor at his door ready and ety . But it must not be expected that the willing to be employed . The freed men serf will at once and universally assume the will have to ...
... sure would have rudely shaken the fabric of soci- of finding free labor at his door ready and ety . But it must not be expected that the willing to be employed . The freed men serf will at once and universally assume the will have to ...
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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.