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Page 82
... talk till dooms- day . What are you going to give me . for lunch ? " Mrs. Oxton was perfectly unmoved ; she merely seated herself comfortably on her husband's knee . 66 Suppose , now , " she said , " that you had been putting yourself ...
... talk till dooms- day . What are you going to give me . for lunch ? " Mrs. Oxton was perfectly unmoved ; she merely seated herself comfortably on her husband's knee . 66 Suppose , now , " she said , " that you had been putting yourself ...
Page 86
... talking nonsense , at which I began to assist . We were talking about who each of us was to marry , and what we would have for dinner on the auspicious occasion . was arranged that I was to marry Miss de Bracy , from the Victoria ...
... talking nonsense , at which I began to assist . We were talking about who each of us was to marry , and what we would have for dinner on the auspicious occasion . was arranged that I was to marry Miss de Bracy , from the Victoria ...
Page 87
... talking loud . We had been very proud of his victory ; it was the talk of all the water - side ; he rowed in such perfect form , and with such wonderful rapidity . The sporting papers took him up A Story of Two Families . 7.
... talking loud . We had been very proud of his victory ; it was the talk of all the water - side ; he rowed in such perfect form , and with such wonderful rapidity . The sporting papers took him up A Story of Two Families . 7.
Page 88
... talk , " whereupon my mo- ther departed . " Jim , " said he as soon as she was gone , " did you ever hear anything about your cousin Reuben's father ? " I said quickly , " No ; but I had often thought it curious that we had never heard ...
... talk , " whereupon my mo- ther departed . " Jim , " said he as soon as she was gone , " did you ever hear anything about your cousin Reuben's father ? " I said quickly , " No ; but I had often thought it curious that we had never heard ...
Page 96
... talks about his Pegasus , and is mildly mythological , calling all ladies " Dianas , " and speaking of the sun as " Phoebus . " After describing the breakfast at the house of " the Amphi- tryon , " the meet on the lawn , and the scene ...
... talks about his Pegasus , and is mildly mythological , calling all ladies " Dianas , " and speaking of the sun as " Phoebus . " After describing the breakfast at the house of " the Amphi- tryon , " the meet on the lawn , and the scene ...
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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.