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It ' s all a question of temperament , and , maybe , age , ” he continued , calming
himself entirely down , and taking a seat beside Colin in the window “ The like of
you expects response , and has no conception of life without it ; but the like of me
...
It ' s all a question of temperament , and , maybe , age , ” he continued , calming
himself entirely down , and taking a seat beside Colin in the window “ The like of
you expects response , and has no conception of life without it ; but the like of me
...
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Then to forget - or trying no to think and she knelt down between the two awed
inquire and question . There is but one and astonished men , to say the familiar
thing in the world , so far as I can see , prayers which only a week ago Arthur that
a ...
Then to forget - or trying no to think and she knelt down between the two awed
inquire and question . There is but one and astonished men , to say the familiar
thing in the world , so far as I can see , prayers which only a week ago Arthur that
a ...
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... side of the question he supported . He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully
. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation and display of his
subject . His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar , nor subtle and
abstruse .
... side of the question he supported . He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully
. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation and display of his
subject . His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar , nor subtle and
abstruse .
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... and to study and ( see , for instance , the eloquent descripprosecute more
political questions than tion of the city of Mexico ) of his “ Hisare undertaken by
most legislators , is tory of the Conquest of America , " or truly matter for
amazement .
... and to study and ( see , for instance , the eloquent descripprosecute more
political questions than tion of the city of Mexico ) of his “ Hisare undertaken by
most legislators , is tory of the Conquest of America , " or truly matter for
amazement .
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... holy is the redbreasts ought not to be caged , that Lord God Almighty ! ' I
question not a dovecot is a pretty sight , and that my corporeal eye , any more
than I would cock - fighting is a barbarous sport . Apart question a window
concerning a ...
... holy is the redbreasts ought not to be caged , that Lord God Almighty ! ' I
question not a dovecot is a pretty sight , and that my corporeal eye , any more
than I would cock - fighting is a barbarous sport . Apart question a window
concerning a ...
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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.