The Living Age, Volume 263E. Littell & Company, 1909 |
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... hand , is one side of Free Contract and Free Competition , for these things go to- gether . The Cobdenite is logical when he is an uncompromising Individualist ; but the Unionist Tariff Reformer who invests himself with this raiment at ...
... hand , is one side of Free Contract and Free Competition , for these things go to- gether . The Cobdenite is logical when he is an uncompromising Individualist ; but the Unionist Tariff Reformer who invests himself with this raiment at ...
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... hands . Hence the usurper was an anxious man . Point after point he had scored , but the rubber was still in dispute ... hand for the final tussle , and led trumps . He would force the game ; the French were always with us in the East ...
... hands . Hence the usurper was an anxious man . Point after point he had scored , but the rubber was still in dispute ... hand for the final tussle , and led trumps . He would force the game ; the French were always with us in the East ...
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... hand . Sir C. [ threateningly ] . If you wanted to keep a free hand , you ought not to have accepted my money . St. John . Look here , Sir Charles , don't you try to come the millionaire over me . You may be a millionaire in your ...
... hand . Sir C. [ threateningly ] . If you wanted to keep a free hand , you ought not to have accepted my money . St. John . Look here , Sir Charles , don't you try to come the millionaire over me . You may be a millionaire in your ...
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... hand , and that in his trousers pocket , while with his right hand fin- ger - nail he will trace you a canal on Mars . He walks briskly , kicking up stellar dust ; and , if a beggar importune him for a trifle , will raise his stick to ...
... hand , and that in his trousers pocket , while with his right hand fin- ger - nail he will trace you a canal on Mars . He walks briskly , kicking up stellar dust ; and , if a beggar importune him for a trifle , will raise his stick to ...
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... hands . Ibn Ali held bit and off- stirrup for his master , who was down in one graceful , elastic movement , and had the white - clad figure by the hand . " Mr. Chisholm , I am glad to see ye . Forgive me for not having called to pay my ...
... hands . Ibn Ali held bit and off- stirrup for his master , who was down in one graceful , elastic movement , and had the white - clad figure by the hand . " Mr. Chisholm , I am glad to see ye . Forgive me for not having called to pay my ...
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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...