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... admit the justice of the . insinuation that malice mingles in his catholic friendship and hospitality ; rather do I believe in the poet - poli- tician's own account of his mission of conciliation in lines 22 The Cambridge " Apostles . ”
... admit the justice of the . insinuation that malice mingles in his catholic friendship and hospitality ; rather do I believe in the poet - poli- tician's own account of his mission of conciliation in lines 22 The Cambridge " Apostles . ”
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... believe that , as is often the case , the merits of this writer were widely appreciated in the United States , even before they obtained a similar wide appreciation in England . I cannot conceive a more decisive test of fame - as ...
... believe that , as is often the case , the merits of this writer were widely appreciated in the United States , even before they obtained a similar wide appreciation in England . I cannot conceive a more decisive test of fame - as ...
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... believe that , though his form is unwonted , one can fairly speak of it as incomparable . Our pre - Raphaelite friends are fond of superlatives , and their style would be improved if they learnt to keep ever at hand a little pepper ...
... believe that , though his form is unwonted , one can fairly speak of it as incomparable . Our pre - Raphaelite friends are fond of superlatives , and their style would be improved if they learnt to keep ever at hand a little pepper ...
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... believe that Mr. Hume floats about the air in an arm - chair , and that Mr. Foster's arm is habitually subject to the operation phers . The ve speak of do b al lithogra- men I is one Con- which , to my mind , requires explanation . 35.
... believe that Mr. Hume floats about the air in an arm - chair , and that Mr. Foster's arm is habitually subject to the operation phers . The ve speak of do b al lithogra- men I is one Con- which , to my mind , requires explanation . 35.
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... believe in sirens and griffins ; and , of all arguments , the à priori reasoning against Spiritualism always seems to me the weakest . sidering that we have absolutely no knowledge whatever what a disembodied spirit is likely to do or ...
... believe in sirens and griffins ; and , of all arguments , the à priori reasoning against Spiritualism always seems to me the weakest . sidering that we have absolutely no knowledge whatever what a disembodied spirit is likely to do or ...
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Page 108 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 23 - 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 : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear.
Page 277 - By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation.
Page 277 - I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government — that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution...
Page 21 - 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...
Page 15 - In truth, sir, he was the delight and ornament of this house, and the charm of every private society which he honoured with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country, a man of a more pointed. and finished wit ; and (where his passions were not concerned) of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating judgment.
Page 467 - 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 276 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they...
Page 23 - He led me through his gardens fair, Where all his golden pleasures grow. With sweet May dews my wings were wet. And Phoebus fir'd my vocal rage; He caught me in his silken net, And shut me in his golden cage. He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.
Page 277 - It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power.