The Quarterly Review, Volume 70J. Murray, 1842 |
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... matter of course . From a similar blending of professions , it is impossible to as- certain the number of vagabonds who come within the dangerous class . Adults and children , they may be taken - limiting the title to its strictest ...
... matter of course . From a similar blending of professions , it is impossible to as- certain the number of vagabonds who come within the dangerous class . Adults and children , they may be taken - limiting the title to its strictest ...
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... matter of course each of the orators deems it a point of honour to " stand his turn . " The philippics con- tinue - from the masters they descend to the overseers and foremen ; and from them to their fellow - workmen . The hour of ...
... matter of course each of the orators deems it a point of honour to " stand his turn . " The philippics con- tinue - from the masters they descend to the overseers and foremen ; and from them to their fellow - workmen . The hour of ...
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... matter of course , a lover : they swear eternal fidelity , and an illicit connection is formed , which very frequently lasts for many years , and not rarely ends in marriage . Immoral as are these unions , they are looked upon with ...
... matter of course , a lover : they swear eternal fidelity , and an illicit connection is formed , which very frequently lasts for many years , and not rarely ends in marriage . Immoral as are these unions , they are looked upon with ...
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... matter of importance , nay , of necessity . With many this grows into a passion , and leads them into expenses totally disproportioned to their narrow salaries . Petty abstractions from the goods under their care , especially articles ...
... matter of importance , nay , of necessity . With many this grows into a passion , and leads them into expenses totally disproportioned to their narrow salaries . Petty abstractions from the goods under their care , especially articles ...
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tended measure of reformation on this head is , we conceive , a matter of urgent duty , nay of necessity . As our population becomes more and more dense , the present state of things leads to deeper and deeper shades of depravity ; and ...
tended measure of reformation on this head is , we conceive , a matter of urgent duty , nay of necessity . As our population becomes more and more dense , the present state of things leads to deeper and deeper shades of depravity ; and ...
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Page 127 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 267 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 126 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount...
Page 267 - Is it well to wish thee happy? — having known me — to decline On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine!
Page 267 - Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions with a mute observance hung. And I said, ' My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to me, Trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee.
Page 113 - I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 267 - Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs of men; Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do.
Page 265 - I mourned with thousands, but as one More deeply grieved, for He was gone Whose light I hailed when first it shone, And showed my youth How Verse may build a princely throne On humble truth.
Page 267 - DORA. WITH farmer Allan at the farm abode William and Dora. William was his son, And she his niece. He often look'd at them. And often thought,
Page 203 - Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment: 14 And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom...