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... gave him the privilege of finding some one to purchase him , who would treat him better than if he was sold on the auction - block . William tried to make some arrangement by which he could purchase his own freedom , but the old doctor ...
... gave him the privilege of finding some one to purchase him , who would treat him better than if he was sold on the auction - block . William tried to make some arrangement by which he could purchase his own freedom , but the old doctor ...
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... gave one shriek , saying , ' God be with you ! ' It was the last time that I saw her , and the last word I heard her utter . " I walked on shore . The bell was tolling . The boat was about to start . I stood with a heavy heart , waiting ...
... gave one shriek , saying , ' God be with you ! ' It was the last time that I saw her , and the last word I heard her utter . " I walked on shore . The bell was tolling . The boat was about to start . I stood with a heavy heart , waiting ...
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... gave him something to aid him to get “ a local habitation . " So , after giving him some money , Brown again started for Canada . In four days he reached a public - house , and went in to warm himself . He soon found that he was not out ...
... gave him something to aid him to get “ a local habitation . " So , after giving him some money , Brown again started for Canada . In four days he reached a public - house , and went in to warm himself . He soon found that he was not out ...
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... gave you birth . Language fails to tell our deep abhorrence of the impiety of those who , in the still more sacred name of religion , rob immortal be- ings not only of an earthly citizenship , but do much to prevent them from obtaining ...
... gave you birth . Language fails to tell our deep abhorrence of the impiety of those who , in the still more sacred name of religion , rob immortal be- ings not only of an earthly citizenship , but do much to prevent them from obtaining ...
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... gave his services to many of the benevolent and religious societies on the occasion of their anniversary meetings . After a lecture which he delivered before the Whittington Club , he received from the managers of that institution the ...
... gave his services to many of the benevolent and religious societies on the occasion of their anniversary meetings . After a lecture which he delivered before the Whittington Club , he received from the managers of that institution the ...
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Page 245 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 280 - Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. " For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours.
Page 12 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin...
Page 150 - Near this spot are deposited the Remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity. Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices.
Page 129 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 202 - The time shall come, when free as seas or wind Unbounded Thames ° shall flow for all mankind ; Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide ; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Page 251 - YE banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers. Your waters never drumlie! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last fareweel O
Page 91 - The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined; Thou wouldst have thought some fairy's hand 'Twixt poplars straight the osier wand In many a freakish knot had twined; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Page 158 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 270 - Where should Othello go? — Now, how dost thou look now ? O ill-starr'd wench ! Pale as thy smock ! when we shall meet at compt, This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl ? Even like thy chastity. — O cursed, cursed slave ! — Whip me, ye devils, From the possession of this heavenly sight! Blow me about in winds ! roast me in sulphur ! Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire ! — O Desdemona!