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Despotic powers act handsomely to put his materials into hands better qualified than in such matters . ... We hope to look into this matter that Mr. Montague is an Englishman , who held a some day ; but must now keep to our text . petty ...
Despotic powers act handsomely to put his materials into hands better qualified than in such matters . ... We hope to look into this matter that Mr. Montague is an Englishman , who held a some day ; but must now keep to our text . petty ...
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My own opinion on the tached from the general mass , at the head of a deep , matter is , that Lot's wife having lingered behind , narrow , and abrupt chasm . We immediately pulled in disobedience to God's express command , given in for ...
My own opinion on the tached from the general mass , at the head of a deep , matter is , that Lot's wife having lingered behind , narrow , and abrupt chasm . We immediately pulled in disobedience to God's express command , given in for ...
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336 . and no animalculæ or vestige of animal matter could be detected . Remarkable effects are afforded by the saline deposits upon the shores . On the peninsula , toThis experiment , and proper care to secure some of the water of the ...
336 . and no animalculæ or vestige of animal matter could be detected . Remarkable effects are afforded by the saline deposits upon the shores . On the peninsula , toThis experiment , and proper care to secure some of the water of the ...
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... leaving her own meal untasted , when her what affected by the preceding scene , burst into a brother stopped her : “ Where , in the name of violent flood of tears ; little Annie , as a matter of wonder , are you going , Clara ?
... leaving her own meal untasted , when her what affected by the preceding scene , burst into a brother stopped her : “ Where , in the name of violent flood of tears ; little Annie , as a matter of wonder , are you going , Clara ?
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Won't you seasons , and such sublunary matters , of which it tell me ? ... She I know it is a matter of course that these things would watch herself strictly for the future . are discovered by the lookers - on , and not by the The real ...
Won't you seasons , and such sublunary matters , of which it tell me ? ... She I know it is a matter of course that these things would watch herself strictly for the future . are discovered by the lookers - on , and not by the The real ...
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Page 383 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 410 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 405 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 383 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Page 411 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Page 390 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 411 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Page 157 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 390 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 410 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...