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... dear young lady , the Signori will pardon me , but I must remain here . " " Does the Signorina wish it ? " asked Colin , with wondering looks , for the idea of another protector for Alice confounded him , he scarcely knew why . " The ...
... dear young lady , the Signori will pardon me , but I must remain here . " " Does the Signorina wish it ? " asked Colin , with wondering looks , for the idea of another protector for Alice confounded him , he scarcely knew why . " The ...
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... dear Arthur , " said the poor girl , turning her appealing eyes from one to the other , " could not approve of his ways . He did something that Arthur thought was wrong . I can- not tell you about it , " said Alice through her tears ...
... dear Arthur , " said the poor girl , turning her appealing eyes from one to the other , " could not approve of his ways . He did something that Arthur thought was wrong . I can- not tell you about it , " said Alice through her tears ...
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... dear husband , that I beg you won't trouble him with any more such communica- tions . If it's meant to get money , that's vain - for neither him nor me knows anything about the friends Arthur may have picked up . If he had stayed at ...
... dear husband , that I beg you won't trouble him with any more such communica- tions . If it's meant to get money , that's vain - for neither him nor me knows anything about the friends Arthur may have picked up . If he had stayed at ...
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... dear Flaxman , 66 are a sublime archangel - my friend " and companion from eternity . In the " Divine bosom is our dwelling - place , " he could turn upon him at another time and call him a blockhead . This , how- ever , was but tit ...
... dear Flaxman , 66 are a sublime archangel - my friend " and companion from eternity . In the " Divine bosom is our dwelling - place , " he could turn upon him at another time and call him a blockhead . This , how- ever , was but tit ...
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... dear , and that Sir George had refused to let her go into an asylum , but had generously given up Stanlake to her and her keeper . That florid grey - headed man whom we saw driving with her in Croydon was the keeper . Such stories . did ...
... dear , and that Sir George had refused to let her go into an asylum , but had generously given up Stanlake to her and her keeper . That florid grey - headed man whom we saw driving with her in Croydon was the keeper . Such stories . did ...
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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.