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... death , and the power of sale over his body , or of the transfer of a right in a fellow - creature's existence , are so abhorrent to every principle of humanity , and so opposed to the great basis of Christianity , that no argument in ...
... death , and the power of sale over his body , or of the transfer of a right in a fellow - creature's existence , are so abhorrent to every principle of humanity , and so opposed to the great basis of Christianity , that no argument in ...
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... Death rather than dismemberment , ' the Southerners are much more determined in saying ' Extermination rather than submission , ' said a gentleman from New Orleans . 6 929 The former replied , " And as to union , it is not power we ...
... Death rather than dismemberment , ' the Southerners are much more determined in saying ' Extermination rather than submission , ' said a gentleman from New Orleans . 6 929 The former replied , " And as to union , it is not power we ...
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... death as in life , whose transcendent genius has since found no parallel . I T It was a trying moment , that which found him , Standing alone beside his desolate hearth , While all his household gods lay shivered round him . " Did ...
... death as in life , whose transcendent genius has since found no parallel . I T It was a trying moment , that which found him , Standing alone beside his desolate hearth , While all his household gods lay shivered round him . " Did ...
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... † Mill's Dissertations and Discussions in Philosophy , & c . , vol . ii . p . 513 . Grote , History of Greece , vol . xi . part ii . ch . lxxxiii . put to death for this dream , as proving that 38 Dionysius the Elder .
... † Mill's Dissertations and Discussions in Philosophy , & c . , vol . ii . p . 513 . Grote , History of Greece , vol . xi . part ii . ch . lxxxiii . put to death for this dream , as proving that 38 Dionysius the Elder .
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william harrison ainsworth. put to death for this dream , as proving that his waking thoughts must have been dwelling upon such a project . Other examples of the like tragical freaks are to be read of in Plutarch , and in the anecdotes ...
william harrison ainsworth. put to death for this dream , as proving that his waking thoughts must have been dwelling upon such a project . Other examples of the like tragical freaks are to be read of in Plutarch , and in the anecdotes ...
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Page 42 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 40 - And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life. In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even ! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Page 414 - Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ; Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-lov'd Isle. O Thou ! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
Page 232 - Fairer seems the ancient city, and the sunshine seems more fair, That he once has trod its pavement, that he once has breathed its air!
Page 476 - La pièce du jeune poète de quinze ans se terminait par ces vers : Moi, qui toujours fuyant les cités et les cours, De trois, lustres à peine ai vu finir le cours.
Page 252 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun. And by-and-by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Page 246 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest I will go; thy people shall be my people and thy God my God.
Page 166 - ... and if ever he meditate on power, go toss up thy baby to his brow, and bring back his thoughts into his heart by the music of thy discourse. Teach him to live unto God and unto thee ; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
Page 45 - He stated that there was a great deal to be Said on both sides...
Page 420 - A heroic Wallace, quartered on the scaffold, cannot hinder that his Scotland become, one day, a part of England ; but he does hinder that it become, on tyrannous, unfair terms, a part of it...