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... King , or even Emperor of the North , I firmly believe he would decline the privilege : of ruling Yankee subjects . " " The Yankees leave no stone unturned to weaken the power of the South ; and one object is to lure away the negro ...
... King , or even Emperor of the North , I firmly believe he would decline the privilege : of ruling Yankee subjects . " " The Yankees leave no stone unturned to weaken the power of the South ; and one object is to lure away the negro ...
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... and Maria Godolphin began to realise the forcible truth of the words of the wise King of Jerusalem - that the world and its dearest hopes are but vanity . III . MRS . PAIN TAKING LEAVE . MRS . 82 The Shadow of Ashlydyat .
... and Maria Godolphin began to realise the forcible truth of the words of the wise King of Jerusalem - that the world and its dearest hopes are but vanity . III . MRS . PAIN TAKING LEAVE . MRS . 82 The Shadow of Ashlydyat .
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... King of Colchos , fell into the hands of nine husbands . Leontius gives a pleasantly particularised catalogue raisonné of the lead- ing celebrities of Sicily , in the old , old times , from Phalaris of the bull , and Stesichorus of the ...
... King of Colchos , fell into the hands of nine husbands . Leontius gives a pleasantly particularised catalogue raisonné of the lead- ing celebrities of Sicily , in the old , old times , from Phalaris of the bull , and Stesichorus of the ...
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... king should give so great a sum to a person unknown , unless as a reward for some extraordinary and very useful ... kings ; suspicions haunt And dangers press around them all their days ; Ambition galls them , luxury corrupts , And wars ...
... king should give so great a sum to a person unknown , unless as a reward for some extraordinary and very useful ... kings ; suspicions haunt And dangers press around them all their days ; Ambition galls them , luxury corrupts , And wars ...
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... King Lear , Act I. Sc . 4 . Mémoires de Philippe de Comines , 1. vi . ch . xi . § Seneca , Epist . 4 . Essais de Montaigne , I. 23 . Chaucer , Prologe of the Chanounes Ÿeman . which is Chaucer's philosophy of character in the instance ...
... King Lear , Act I. Sc . 4 . Mémoires de Philippe de Comines , 1. vi . ch . xi . § Seneca , Epist . 4 . Essais de Montaigne , I. 23 . Chaucer , Prologe of the Chanounes Ÿeman . which is Chaucer's philosophy of character in the instance ...
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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...