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Page 10
I have enough to live upon , ” she said , softly , with an appealing glance at her
companion . “ If you were to say that I was quite safe , would not that be enough ?
” and it was very hard for Lauderdale to convince her that her father ' s judgment ...
I have enough to live upon , ” she said , softly , with an appealing glance at her
companion . “ If you were to say that I was quite safe , would not that be enough ?
” and it was very hard for Lauderdale to convince her that her father ' s judgment ...
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... was young , and in whose heart , as in a different atmosphere , than she had
her own , there must live a natural known before ; and she raised herself protest
against this awful necessity of up after them with a half - bewillered separation
and ...
... was young , and in whose heart , as in a different atmosphere , than she had
her own , there must live a natural known before ; and she raised herself protest
against this awful necessity of up after them with a half - bewillered separation
and ...
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She has money enough to live on , and she can do as she pleases . Considering
what her ingratitude has brought her dear father to , and that I may be left alone to
manage everything before many days are past , you will please to con - sider ...
She has money enough to live on , and she can do as she pleases . Considering
what her ingratitude has brought her dear father to , and that I may be left alone to
manage everything before many days are past , you will please to con - sider ...
Page 27
So much has been written the engraver . “ Father , " he said , “ I do upon this
theme that it may seem to be not like the man ' s face ; he will live to now
exhausted ; but the truth is , that be hanged . ” And twelve years after we are not
yet in full ...
So much has been written the engraver . “ Father , " he said , “ I do upon this
theme that it may seem to be not like the man ' s face ; he will live to now
exhausted ; but the truth is , that be hanged . ” And twelve years after we are not
yet in full ...
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Their prey are terrific shapes of to live among us . We recognise his animals
sprung from corruption ; the greatness , we wonder at the strength of air being full
of them and apparently his thews and the weight of his stride ; composed of them
.
Their prey are terrific shapes of to live among us . We recognise his animals
sprung from corruption ; the greatness , we wonder at the strength of air being full
of them and apparently his thews and the weight of his stride ; composed of them
.
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Page 29 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Page 303 - I understood, too, that, in ordinary civil administration, this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery.
Page 29 - And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? and what dread feet?
Page 493 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 27 - What," it will be questioned, " when the sun rises do you not see a round disk of fire something like a guinea ? Oh ! no ! no ! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying — ' Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty ! '" I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight.
Page 483 - A cup, save thee, and what a cup hast thou brought! Dost thou take me for a fairy, to drink out of an acorn?
Page 26 - There is no doubt this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott!
Page 303 - I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of government, country, and Constitution all together. When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity.
Page 483 - Dost thou take me for a fairy, to drink out of an acorn? Why didst thou not bring thy thimble? Hast thou ne'er a brass thimble clinking in thy pocket with a bit of nutmeg? I warrant thee. Come, fill, fill. So, again.
Page 29 - So I piped, he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer.' So I sung the same again While he wept with joy to hear. 'Piper sit thee down and write In a book that all may read — ' So he vanish'd from my sight.