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Page 48
A severe , assure us on several occasions that harsh , and mournful kind of
religiosity it was the need of utterance now and seized her , and this “
abominable always that drove her to write , and spiritual rigidity , " as she calls it ,
that money ...
A severe , assure us on several occasions that harsh , and mournful kind of
religiosity it was the need of utterance now and seized her , and this “
abominable always that drove her to write , and spiritual rigidity , " as she calls it ,
that money ...
Page 49
... grand truth that social extremely disadvantageous to herself , affairs proceed
according to general the first of her tales was published laws , no less than
natural phenomena ( 1832 ) , and instantly had a prodigious of every kind ” (
Autob . ii .
... grand truth that social extremely disadvantageous to herself , affairs proceed
according to general the first of her tales was published laws , no less than
natural phenomena ( 1832 ) , and instantly had a prodigious of every kind ” (
Autob . ii .
Page 50
Her work dealt Paris of the eighteenth century , being with matters of a political
kind , and introduced at Versailles by a silly she could only secure a real
knowledge great lady who had an infatuation for of what was best worth saying
by in - her .
Her work dealt Paris of the eighteenth century , being with matters of a political
kind , and introduced at Versailles by a silly she could only secure a real
knowledge great lady who had an infatuation for of what was best worth saying
by in - her .
Page 51
It is not merely the through the medium of a strong and “ blighting of promise nor
the forpenetrating kind of common sense , feiture of a career ” that she deplores
which is more often the gift of clever in the case of a Bulwer or a Brougham ...
It is not merely the through the medium of a strong and “ blighting of promise nor
the forpenetrating kind of common sense , feiture of a career ” that she deplores
which is more often the gift of clever in the case of a Bulwer or a Brougham ...
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In 1834 she literary or social , are the best kind of had finished her series of
illustrations refreshment that travel supplies . She of political economy ; her
domestic life published two books on America : one was fretted by the
unreasonable exi ...
In 1834 she literary or social , are the best kind of had finished her series of
illustrations refreshment that travel supplies . She of political economy ; her
domestic life published two books on America : one was fretted by the
unreasonable exi ...
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Page 380 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 295 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Page 4 - I beseech you remember, it is an article 'of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word of God.
Page 296 - Therefore every honourable connexion will avow it is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state.
Page 296 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 216 - A voice as of the cherub-choir Gales from blooming Eden bear, And distant warblings lessen on my ear That lost in long futurity expire.
Page 493 - M'ôter, pour faire bien, du grenier de céans Cette longue lunette à faire peur aux gens, Et cent brimborions dont l'aspect importune; Ne point aller chercher ce qu'on fait dans la lune, Et vous mêler un peu de ce qu'on fait chez vous, Où nous voyons aller tout sens dessus dessous.
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Page 4 - Christian charity's sake, to admonish us of the same in writing ; and we, upon our honour and fidelity, do promise unto him satisfaction from the mouth of God, that is, from his holy scriptures, or else reformation of that which he shall prove to be amiss.
Page 375 - But see, his face is black and full of blood, His eye-balls further out than when he lived, Staring full ghastly like a strangled man; His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life and was by strength subdued...