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Page 88
... the mercy of my father . This was my father's account of his disappearance . He concealed from me the fact that Samuel Burton had been arrested and transported for fourteen years . The poor mother 8 The Hillyars and the Burtons :
... the mercy of my father . This was my father's account of his disappearance . He concealed from me the fact that Samuel Burton had been arrested and transported for fourteen years . The poor mother 8 The Hillyars and the Burtons :
Page 91
... fact . It was so lonely on these long sands , that the Secretary looked on this particular scoundrel as if he were a rather interesting book which he had . picked up , and which would beguile the way . " Hot day , my man . " " Very hot ...
... fact . It was so lonely on these long sands , that the Secretary looked on this particular scoundrel as if he were a rather interesting book which he had . picked up , and which would beguile the way . " Hot day , my man . " " Very hot ...
Page 101
... fact , the Ghorkas are a military aristocracy , like the Spartans of blue blood ; the other Nepaulese represent the Laked¿- monians or Pericki ( in gratitude to dear Mr. Grote for that history which all scholars love , and all pedants ...
... fact , the Ghorkas are a military aristocracy , like the Spartans of blue blood ; the other Nepaulese represent the Laked¿- monians or Pericki ( in gratitude to dear Mr. Grote for that history which all scholars love , and all pedants ...
Page 117
... fact is , that I had predetermined for some time to seize upon the first opportunity for leav- ing office ; the death of Count Cavour afforded this opportunity , and I seized upon it . The forming of this resolution was not the work of ...
... fact is , that I had predetermined for some time to seize upon the first opportunity for leav- ing office ; the death of Count Cavour afforded this opportunity , and I seized upon it . The forming of this resolution was not the work of ...
Page 124
... fact , a denial to neutrals of the power of trad- ing , so far as their imports are con- cerned , with a belligerent State ; and this , not for any military purpose , but for the sake of the mere injury to the enemy's trade . Such a ...
... fact , a denial to neutrals of the power of trad- ing , so far as their imports are con- cerned , with a belligerent State ; and this , not for any military purpose , but for the sake of the mere injury to the enemy's trade . Such a ...
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Page 263 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Page 239 - Still, thro' the rattle, parts of speech were rife : While he could stammer He settled Hoti's business— let it be ! — Properly based Oun — Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De, Dead from the waist down.
Page 467 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said book contained and prescribed, in these words, and no other : IV. " I, AB, do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained and prescribed in and by the book, intituled,
Page 520 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian ; and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Page 368 - Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on Round the old tree.
Page 367 - For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice.
Page 367 - We are puppets, Man in his pride, and Beauty fair in her flower ; Do we move ourselves, or are moved by an unseen hand at a game That pushes us off from the board, and others ever succeed ? Ah yet, we cannot be kind to each other here for an hour ; We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame ; However we brave it out, we men are a little breed.
Page 272 - I have given instructions to those officers, to whom it belongs, to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons who shall, within the cognizance of the courts of the United States, violate the law of nations, with respect to the powers at war, or any of them.
Page 355 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself ; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Page 143 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of Winter I mourn ; Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save.