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... meet my cars , you shall pay dearly then for both . " He made the Painter pay instantly the 200 zechines , which he pretended had been offered him , to the poor old man , whom he had defrauded , after which he allowed him to depart ...
... meet my cars , you shall pay dearly then for both . " He made the Painter pay instantly the 200 zechines , which he pretended had been offered him , to the poor old man , whom he had defrauded , after which he allowed him to depart ...
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George John Freeman. absolute power can employ in any service for which he thinks meet to destine them . As it was the professed intention of the Order of Je- suits to labour with unwearied zeal in promoting the salvation of men , this ...
George John Freeman. absolute power can employ in any service for which he thinks meet to destine them . As it was the professed intention of the Order of Je- suits to labour with unwearied zeal in promoting the salvation of men , this ...
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... meet the turnpike road leading from Well- ington to Tiverton ; and which new Turnpike is intended to pass through the several parishes of Coombe St. Nicholas , Buckland St. Mary , and Otterford , in the county of Somerset , and Yarcombe ...
... meet the turnpike road leading from Well- ington to Tiverton ; and which new Turnpike is intended to pass through the several parishes of Coombe St. Nicholas , Buckland St. Mary , and Otterford , in the county of Somerset , and Yarcombe ...
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... treated with hospi- table attention . English schools have been lately introduced into many of the towns and villages , but they do not meet with ge- neral North neral encouragement . The national pride has neverthe- less 84.
... treated with hospi- table attention . English schools have been lately introduced into many of the towns and villages , but they do not meet with ge- neral North neral encouragement . The national pride has neverthe- less 84.
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... meet with refusal from one who was devoted to the odd trick and four by honors . She rose immediately , and saying with a significant glance at Lord Bumper she was sure she left her daughter in good hands , followed the servant out of ...
... meet with refusal from one who was devoted to the odd trick and four by honors . She rose immediately , and saying with a significant glance at Lord Bumper she was sure she left her daughter in good hands , followed the servant out of ...
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Page 201 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth : But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil : but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Page 156 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 156 - Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 81 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 30 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Page 45 - ... from the court of Rome, to trade with the nations which they laboured to convert. In consequence of this, they engaged in an extensive and lucrative commerce, both in the East and West Indies. They opened warehouses in different parts of Europe, in which they vended their commodities. Not satisfied with trade alone, they imitated the example of other commercial societies, and aimed at obtaining settlements. They acquired possession accordingly of a large and fertile province in the southern continent...
Page 83 - Boundless the deep, because I am who fill Infinitude, nor vacuous the space. Though I uncircumscribed myself retire, And put not forth my goodness, which is free To act or not, Necessity and Chance Approach not me, and what I will is Fate.
Page 78 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 201 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ...
Page 46 - They have published such tenets concerning the duty of opposing princes who were enemies of the catholic faith, as countenanced the most atrocious crimes, and tended to dissolve all the ties which connect subjects with their rulers. As the order derived both reputation and authority from the zeal with which it stood forth in defence of the Romish church against the attacks of the reformers, its members, proud of this distinction, have considered it as their peculiar function to combat the opinions,...