The Living Age, Volume 263E. Littell & Company, 1909 |
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... Government , Carrying on Old - Time Parson's Tithes Book , An 251 the 451 " • • Knitting . By William H. Davies Lacunæ in the Gospels . The Lamb , Charles , A Memorial to . By E. V. Lucas . 506 698 M. Sykes . C. M. G. Only Flower , The ...
... Government , Carrying on Old - Time Parson's Tithes Book , An 251 the 451 " • • Knitting . By William H. Davies Lacunæ in the Gospels . The Lamb , Charles , A Memorial to . By E. V. Lucas . 506 698 M. Sykes . C. M. G. Only Flower , The ...
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... government that just has held its own behave when it has drowned a rising in men's blood . For all that , just as the bronco- twister or the gaucho still keeps a watchful eye on the wild horse's ears , and pats him cautiously upon the ...
... government that just has held its own behave when it has drowned a rising in men's blood . For all that , just as the bronco- twister or the gaucho still keeps a watchful eye on the wild horse's ears , and pats him cautiously upon the ...
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... Government has had a fright . Cer- tainly they have had good cause . In spite of all the specious misrep- resentation of the newspapers , the cry against the war ( Guerra á la Guerra ) has been spontaneous , and not a rising only of the ...
... Government has had a fright . Cer- tainly they have had good cause . In spite of all the specious misrep- resentation of the newspapers , the cry against the war ( Guerra á la Guerra ) has been spontaneous , and not a rising only of the ...
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... Government steamer . Not so much the fact that Dr. Cook was unaccompanied by any white com- panion as certain surprising features in the above story make it advisable to await the examination of Dr. Cook's instruments and journal of ...
... Government steamer . Not so much the fact that Dr. Cook was unaccompanied by any white com- panion as certain surprising features in the above story make it advisable to await the examination of Dr. Cook's instruments and journal of ...
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... Government service - as to which ye will excuse me from enlarging . Yes , and I sail to - morrow , as I think . Has my old friend any commands ? ' Twill be my duty and my pleas- ure 99 The ancient Scotsman smiled wist- fully and drew ...
... Government service - as to which ye will excuse me from enlarging . Yes , and I sail to - morrow , as I think . Has my old friend any commands ? ' Twill be my duty and my pleas- ure 99 The ancient Scotsman smiled wist- fully and drew ...
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Page 481 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 614 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Page 163 - How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and Fox alone.
Page 229 - The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows!
Page 550 - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
Page 229 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter— the wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his sleep.
Page 162 - King James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear or see their foes Until at weapon-point they close. — They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air: Oh!
Page 528 - Thou canst not prove thou art immortal, no Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with thyself, For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven...
Page 71 - Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.
Page 248 - I dare say he thinks he has done a mighty thing. He won't stay till he gets home to his seat in the country, to produce this wonderful deed: hell call up the landlord of the first inn on the road; and, after a suitable preface upon mortality and the uncertainty of life, will tell him that he should not delay making his will; and here, Sir...