The Living Age, Volume 263E. Littell & Company, 1909 |
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... things , that peo- ples who are half armed should feel a delicacy about frontiers , treaty rights and all those things that it is patent were never designed for them , as is typified by their inferior guns ? Let this be as it may , the ...
... things , that peo- ples who are half armed should feel a delicacy about frontiers , treaty rights and all those things that it is patent were never designed for them , as is typified by their inferior guns ? Let this be as it may , the ...
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... thing is certain , Spain wants peace . Peace to build up her com- merce , peace to heal old wounds , and her best ... Things . " In your story , " said you , " let there be none of This " ; and you shall find , as I think , none of ...
... thing is certain , Spain wants peace . Peace to build up her com- merce , peace to heal old wounds , and her best ... Things . " In your story , " said you , " let there be none of This " ; and you shall find , as I think , none of ...
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... things , poor things ! The inhabitants of these villages sent to a former Postmaster- General - if I am rightly informed , Mr. Cecil Raikes - a request that they might be allowed to change their names , and replace them with more ...
... things , poor things ! The inhabitants of these villages sent to a former Postmaster- General - if I am rightly informed , Mr. Cecil Raikes - a request that they might be allowed to change their names , and replace them with more ...
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... things [ looking at clock ] . Well , of course if the Clelands are late , we can't help it . Anyhow- [ pause , as if ... thing . Let everybody take notice of what I say ! It's a great thing ! Sir C. I also saw it last night . It may or ...
... things [ looking at clock ] . Well , of course if the Clelands are late , we can't help it . Anyhow- [ pause , as if ... thing . Let everybody take notice of what I say ! It's a great thing ! Sir C. I also saw it last night . It may or ...
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... thing that's never been seen in my time ! . . . I resign . Sir C. You aren't serious . St. John . Do you take me for ... things in " The Merchant of Venice , " anyway . Emily . Oh , Charlie , I didn't ! I only just- Sir C. Yes , you did ...
... thing that's never been seen in my time ! . . . I resign . Sir C. You aren't serious . St. John . Do you take me for ... things in " The Merchant of Venice , " anyway . Emily . Oh , Charlie , I didn't ! I only just- Sir C. Yes , you did ...
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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.
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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...