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Page 85
... ment , and then burst into voluble wel- come . She was supposed to know nothing at all about what had passed . Sweet mother ! thy arts were simple enough . She was a very tall woman , with square , large features , who had never , I ...
... ment , and then burst into voluble wel- come . She was supposed to know nothing at all about what had passed . Sweet mother ! thy arts were simple enough . She was a very tall woman , with square , large features , who had never , I ...
Page 88
... ment was come to for six thousand pounds , and the young gentleman was allowanced with two hundred a year and sent abroad . Samuel Burton , seeing that an end was come to a system of plunder which he had carried on at his young master's ...
... ment was come to for six thousand pounds , and the young gentleman was allowanced with two hundred a year and sent abroad . Samuel Burton , seeing that an end was come to a system of plunder which he had carried on at his young master's ...
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... ment ; but there is no help for it . I wonder where that rogue is making for ; I wish he would make for Sydney . Where can he be going ? " One cannot help wondering what the Secretary would have said had he known , as we do , that this ...
... ment ; but there is no help for it . I wonder where that rogue is making for ; I wish he would make for Sydney . Where can he be going ? " One cannot help wondering what the Secretary would have said had he known , as we do , that this ...
Page 101
... ment . He bade us observe that the tillage had perceptibly fallen off , and that the people lived in wretched wicker huts ; while , on his side of the border , each man had his excellent mud cabin thatched with straw . The population ...
... ment . He bade us observe that the tillage had perceptibly fallen off , and that the people lived in wretched wicker huts ; while , on his side of the border , each man had his excellent mud cabin thatched with straw . The population ...
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... came into the place of torment . One very drowsy old boy , with a long white beard , passed three - fourths of every day in this un- enviable post . The heat and the excite- ment of 26 Letters from a Competition Wallah : Letter VI .
... came into the place of torment . One very drowsy old boy , with a long white beard , passed three - fourths of every day in this un- enviable post . The heat and the excite- ment of 26 Letters from a Competition Wallah : Letter VI .
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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.