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... words were , as usual , responded to with an echoing shout , and the cry of " Vive la Republique rose from the great multitude . " Vive le Roi ! " cried the old man , with a voice heard high above the clamor ; but the words were scarce ...
... words were , as usual , responded to with an echoing shout , and the cry of " Vive la Republique rose from the great multitude . " Vive le Roi ! " cried the old man , with a voice heard high above the clamor ; but the words were scarce ...
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... words were spoken ; " I know them all by heart , and can repeat them from ' lux beatissima ' down to ' hora mortis ; ' " and as if to gain credence for my self - laudation , I began at once to recite in the sing - song tone of the ...
... words were spoken ; " I know them all by heart , and can repeat them from ' lux beatissima ' down to ' hora mortis ; ' " and as if to gain credence for my self - laudation , I began at once to recite in the sing - song tone of the ...
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... words were addressed to her sister . Myra was softened and affected . She could almost forgive Catherine for being ... word being uttered ; but , at last , when tea was finished , and they had both taken their work , Catherine , who had ...
... words were addressed to her sister . Myra was softened and affected . She could almost forgive Catherine for being ... word being uttered ; but , at last , when tea was finished , and they had both taken their work , Catherine , who had ...
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... words any very accurate idea . The lava appeared to be from thirty to forty feet in depth , and some notion of its aspect and progress may be formed by imagining a hill of loose stones of all sizes , the summit or brow of which is ...
... words any very accurate idea . The lava appeared to be from thirty to forty feet in depth , and some notion of its aspect and progress may be formed by imagining a hill of loose stones of all sizes , the summit or brow of which is ...
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... words . May God in heaven bless thee for say- ing them . Thou'rt not so restless , my lad ! may be - Oh God ! ” For even while she spoke , he died . They had been two - and - twenty years man and wife ; for nineteen of those years their ...
... words . May God in heaven bless thee for say- ing them . Thou'rt not so restless , my lad ! may be - Oh God ! ” For even while she spoke , he died . They had been two - and - twenty years man and wife ; for nineteen of those years their ...
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Page 73 - But while she was still very young, oh, very, very young, the sister drooped, and came to be so weak that she could no longer stand in the window at night; and then the child looked sadly out by himself, and when he saw the star, turned round and said to the patient pale face on the bed, " I see the star! " and then a smile would come upon the face, and a little weak voice used to say, " God bless my brother and the star!
Page 363 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 240 - Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of the Lord : and let not the sin of his mother be done away.
Page 117 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the commonwealth ; that let no man in this world expect; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for...
Page 294 - ... both of the King and his Council, if you would but do as all the Bishops and best learned of this realm have done.
Page 444 - Towards the morning of the 13th of November, 1799, we witnessed a most extraordinary scene of shooting meteors. Thousands of bodies and falling stars succeeded each other during four hours. Their direction was very regular from north to south. From the beginning of the phenomenon there was not a space in the firmament equal in extent to three diameters of the moon which was not filled every instant with bodies or falling stars. All the meteors left luminous traces or phosphorescent bands behind them,...
Page 273 - Charles Lamb had a head worthy of Aristotle, with as fine a heart as ever beat in human bosom, and limbs very fragile to sustain it. There was a caricature of him sold in the shops, which pretended to be a likeness. Procter went into the shop in a passion, and asked the man what he meant by putting forth such a libel. The man apologized, and said that the artist meant no offence.
Page 73 - He grew to be a young man, and was busy at his books when an old servant came to him and said: "Thy mother is no more. I bring her blessing on her darling son!" Again at night he saw the star, and all that former company. Said his sister's angel to the leader: "Is my brother come?
Page 239 - Wherefore, Mr. Speaker, her Majesty's Pleasure is, that if you perceive any idle heads, which will not stick to hazard their own Estates ; which will meddle with reforming the Church, and transforming the Commonwealth ; and do exhibit any Bills to such purpose, that you receive them not, until they be viewed and considered by those, who, it is fitter should consider of such things, and can better judge of them.
Page 115 - Nay, it were better to meet some dangers half way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches ; for if a man watch too long, it is odds he will fall asleep. On the other side, to be deceived with two long shadows, (as some have been, when the moon was low, and shone on their enemies...