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Page 86
... follow to some extent ; even if one had not had an angel to point to it for us . For , in the sense of being a messenger of good , certainly my sister Emma was an angel . She was a year younger than me . She was very handsome , not very ...
... follow to some extent ; even if one had not had an angel to point to it for us . For , in the sense of being a messenger of good , certainly my sister Emma was an angel . She was a year younger than me . She was very handsome , not very ...
Page 95
... follow him , went upstairs . I obeyed , in the first place , because his word was law to me , and , in the second , because in his company I should not have ( cared one halfpenny for a whole regiment of old ladies in grey silk . We went ...
... follow him , went upstairs . I obeyed , in the first place , because his word was law to me , and , in the second , because in his company I should not have ( cared one halfpenny for a whole regiment of old ladies in grey silk . We went ...
Page 97
... follow- ing is put on paper : " United Victor Emmanuels v . the " Second Eleven of Horley School with " Tomkins . " " Yon light is not daylight . I know it - I . " So said Juliet ( in a play com- posed by one Will Shakspeare , who might ...
... follow- ing is put on paper : " United Victor Emmanuels v . the " Second Eleven of Horley School with " Tomkins . " " Yon light is not daylight . I know it - I . " So said Juliet ( in a play com- posed by one Will Shakspeare , who might ...
Page 106
... follow the houdah elephant through the thicket in a long string , instead of beating the bushes on either side of him . Consequently every sportsman has to look very sharply after his section of the line . At first I ex- pected to feel ...
... follow the houdah elephant through the thicket in a long string , instead of beating the bushes on either side of him . Consequently every sportsman has to look very sharply after his section of the line . At first I ex- pected to feel ...
Page 113
... follow you ? You guess to what I allude to one of the results of the last campaign , for which I was quite unprepared - I mean this deplor- able annexation to Piedmont of part of the Pontifical States . " Still , even such an act I ...
... follow you ? You guess to what I allude to one of the results of the last campaign , for which I was quite unprepared - I mean this deplor- able annexation to Piedmont of part of the Pontifical States . " Still , even such an act I ...
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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.
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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.