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... wish to learn to read . This was simply because she preferred sitting by the fire than fetching wood and water : she never got beyond ba , be , bi . In almost every family you meet with an Uncle Cassius or Aunt Ailsey , and sundry ...
... wish to learn to read . This was simply because she preferred sitting by the fire than fetching wood and water : she never got beyond ba , be , bi . In almost every family you meet with an Uncle Cassius or Aunt Ailsey , and sundry ...
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... wish our own working classes were as well provided for and protected as your slaves , Mr. Tyler . It is almost provoking to witness their grinning faces and light - hearted indifference at this season of anxiety and alarm , which is ...
... wish our own working classes were as well provided for and protected as your slaves , Mr. Tyler . It is almost provoking to witness their grinning faces and light - hearted indifference at this season of anxiety and alarm , which is ...
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... wish you a pleasant journey , Mrs. Pain . " " Merci bien . If I say , is that Grace ? " Charlotte had cast her eyes to the rectory's upper windows . Mrs. Akeman , her baby in her arms - a great baby , getting , now - stood at one ...
... wish you a pleasant journey , Mrs. Pain . " " Merci bien . If I say , is that Grace ? " Charlotte had cast her eyes to the rectory's upper windows . Mrs. Akeman , her baby in her arms - a great baby , getting , now - stood at one ...
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... wish you'd not play with my feelings , Mrs. Pain . " " Who is playing with them ? " cried Charlotte . " If it was not want of money , if it was not bad management , I don't know what else it was . " " I was told in London , as I came 34 ...
... wish you'd not play with my feelings , Mrs. Pain . " " Who is playing with them ? " cried Charlotte . " If it was not want of money , if it was not bad management , I don't know what else it was . " " I was told in London , as I came 34 ...
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... wish to act by reason , the dif- ficulty might be submitted to arbitration ; if they wish simply to establish their right by force , it will undoubtedly lead some day or other to an arbitrament of a more disagreeable character , and for ...
... wish to act by reason , the dif- ficulty might be submitted to arbitration ; if they wish simply to establish their right by force , it will undoubtedly lead some day or other to an arbitrament of a more disagreeable character , and for ...
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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...