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Page 277 - To lift the smothering weight from off my breast? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Page 301 - CLARISSA. Or, the History of a Young Lady: Comprehending The Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And particularly shewing, the Distresses that may attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage.
Page 1 - ... any prolonged examination of documents or accounts, or any scientific or local investigation which cannot, in the opinion of the Court or a judge...
Page 178 - That as slavery was the cause and now constitutes the strength of this rebellion, and as it must be always and everywhere hostile to the principles of republican government, justice and the national safety demand its utter and complete extirpation from the soil of the republic...
Page 277 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 257 - ... qualities of manhood truth courage devotion to duty sympathy for and protection of the weak kindliness unselfishness and fellowship and (iv) his exhibition during school days of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates...
Page 76 - Act, shall be deemed to have been capable of taking effect, notwithstanding the determination, by forfeiture, surrender, or merger of any preceding estate of freehold, in the same manner, in all respects, as if such determination had not happened.
Page 22 - But the loss of one mystery was amply compensated by the stupendous doctrines of original sin, redemption, faith, grace, and predestination, which have been strained from the epistles of St.
Page 114 - In all human affairs, every person directly interested, and not under positive tutelage, has an admitted claim to a voice, and when his exercise of it is not inconsistent with the safety of the whole, cannot justly be excluded from it. But (though every one ought to have a voice) that every one should have an equal voice is a totally different proposition.
Page 63 - I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.