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... cause , she used to say , there can be no true charity without self- denial . Now , sir , since I have been at home , I have not only been taught , but even compelled , to do the op- posite to all this . I am obliged to give up all my ...
... cause , she used to say , there can be no true charity without self- denial . Now , sir , since I have been at home , I have not only been taught , but even compelled , to do the op- posite to all this . I am obliged to give up all my ...
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... cause or other , which she protests nobody could have foreseen , these schemes constantly fail of success . When I married her I had a handsome independence ; she was portionless , but as I thought I had enough for both , that was no ob ...
... cause or other , which she protests nobody could have foreseen , these schemes constantly fail of success . When I married her I had a handsome independence ; she was portionless , but as I thought I had enough for both , that was no ob ...
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... causes to which I need not allude , much fewer fortunes are now made there than about twenty , or even ten years ago , when the larger number of male adventurers , who went out in the interest of some great man or family , obtained ...
... causes to which I need not allude , much fewer fortunes are now made there than about twenty , or even ten years ago , when the larger number of male adventurers , who went out in the interest of some great man or family , obtained ...
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... causes of the As you devote your Miscel - dry - rot , and a proposal for effec- lany not merely to amusing topics tually preserving timber against it , of conversation , but to the discus- and from internal decay . To a great sion of ...
... causes of the As you devote your Miscel - dry - rot , and a proposal for effec- lany not merely to amusing topics tually preserving timber against it , of conversation , but to the discus- and from internal decay . To a great sion of ...
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... cause to fear for your personal safety , wronged as I have been , guilty as you are ! " . " How ! " interrupted Adelaide , in a tone of astonishment , " guilty ! " " Yes , dare you deny it ? Dare you say , that you do not carry about ...
... cause to fear for your personal safety , wronged as I have been , guilty as you are ! " . " How ! " interrupted Adelaide , in a tone of astonishment , " guilty ! " " Yes , dare you deny it ? Dare you say , that you do not carry about ...
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Seite 88 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Seite 223 - It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned ; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter ; and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations.
Seite 203 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Seite 195 - So like an arrow swift he flew Shot by an archer strong, So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
Seite 195 - His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more.
Seite 222 - The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal...
Seite 222 - By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it.
Seite 222 - But these are poor and narrow views of its importance. It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity.
Seite 237 - M'Namara, the gentleman who was sent to him, who has a natural eloquence, and an excellent understanding, urged the most cogent reasons, and used all the arts of persuasion, to induce him to part with his mistress, and even proceeded so far as to assure him, according to his instructions...
Seite 236 - When he (Charles Edward) was in Scotland, he had a mistress whose name was Walkinshaw, and whose sister was at that time, and is still, housekeeper at Leicester House. Some years after he was released from his prison, and conducted out of France, he sent for this girl, who soon acquired such a dominion over him, that she was acquainted with all his schemes, and trusted with his most secret correspondence. As soon as this was known in England, all those persons of distinction who were attached to...