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Page 83
... once a day , for fear you might forget he was there . Oh ! a charming man ! " " Then he will be a baronet , with an immense fortune ; and Gerty will be Lady Hillyar . " " And the most unfortunate little flower in the wide world , " said ...
... once a day , for fear you might forget he was there . Oh ! a charming man ! " " Then he will be a baronet , with an immense fortune ; and Gerty will be Lady Hillyar . " " And the most unfortunate little flower in the wide world , " said ...
Page 84
... once I have known a couple come and " have it out " in my father's shop . Sometimes , during my apprenticeship , my father would send me out of the way on these occasions ; would say to me , for instance , " Hallo , old man , here's Bob ...
... once I have known a couple come and " have it out " in my father's shop . Sometimes , during my apprenticeship , my father would send me out of the way on these occasions ; would say to me , for instance , " Hallo , old man , here's Bob ...
Page 87
... once , and went indoors in tears , and for the rest of the day told every friend she met , " Lawk , there , if that Jane Agar didn't take and put her tongue out at me , because their Sally shoved our Eliza , and I took and told her she ...
... once , and went indoors in tears , and for the rest of the day told every friend she met , " Lawk , there , if that Jane Agar didn't take and put her tongue out at me , because their Sally shoved our Eliza , and I took and told her she ...
Page 90
... Once his horse shied ; it was at a black snake , which had crept down to bathe , and which raised its horrible wicked head from out its coils and hissed at him as he went by . Another time he heard a strange rippling noise , coming from ...
... Once his horse shied ; it was at a black snake , which had crept down to bathe , and which raised its horrible wicked head from out its coils and hissed at him as he went by . Another time he heard a strange rippling noise , coming from ...
Page 93
... once , and devoured it . " Oh , Jim ! Jim ! " he said to me , " just look at this . I won- der who she was ? " " There's her name to it , old man , " I answered . " I expect that name's hern , ain't it ? For , " I said hesitatingly ...
... once , and devoured it . " Oh , Jim ! Jim ! " he said to me , " just look at this . I won- der who she was ? " " There's her name to it , old man , " I answered . " I expect that name's hern , ain't it ? For , " I said hesitatingly ...
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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.