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... answers our preconceptions of his character . The man who , without rank or fortune , could for thirty or forty years set all law at defiance , who , though peculiarly obnoxious to the government , not merely as breaking its laws and ...
... answers our preconceptions of his character . The man who , without rank or fortune , could for thirty or forty years set all law at defiance , who , though peculiarly obnoxious to the government , not merely as breaking its laws and ...
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... answer is , We doubt the fact . We suspect that his gentlemen and ladies are , in truth , more faithful portraits than his princes , his beggars , or his rustics ; but that the familiarity of his readers with the originals makes their ...
... answer is , We doubt the fact . We suspect that his gentlemen and ladies are , in truth , more faithful portraits than his princes , his beggars , or his rustics ; but that the familiarity of his readers with the originals makes their ...
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... answer she made ? ' and while the yet unpublished verdict is sealed and recorded , as if we did not well know what must , in each case , be the result . 6 6 We cannot bestow the same unqualified praise on another 22 SIR WALTER SCOTT . 22.
... answer she made ? ' and while the yet unpublished verdict is sealed and recorded , as if we did not well know what must , in each case , be the result . 6 6 We cannot bestow the same unqualified praise on another 22 SIR WALTER SCOTT . 22.
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... answer to an earnest address to the feelings of his hearer , is told , you have spoken eloquently , ' feels that he has failed . Effie , when she entreats Sharpitlaw to allow her to see her sister , is eloquent , and his answer ac ...
... answer to an earnest address to the feelings of his hearer , is told , you have spoken eloquently , ' feels that he has failed . Effie , when she entreats Sharpitlaw to allow her to see her sister , is eloquent , and his answer ac ...
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... answer is , that a voluntary breach of engage- ment is a fault to which so much disapprobation is attached , that some degree of disapprobation - that degree which affords a pretext for the misfortunes of tragedy - is attached to one ...
... answer is , that a voluntary breach of engage- ment is a fault to which so much disapprobation is attached , that some degree of disapprobation - that degree which affords a pretext for the misfortunes of tragedy - is attached to one ...
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Page 278 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 497 - Sure I must fight, if I would reign ; Increase my courage, Lord ; I'll bear the toil, endure the pain, Supported, by thy word.
Page 493 - He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire: And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
Page 402 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 34 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 402 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 46 - Look from the window once again, kind maiden, but beware that you are not marked by the archers beneath. Look out once more, and tell me if they yet advance to the storm.
Page 158 - The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge of the level ocean, and gilded the accumulation of towering clouds through which he had travelled the livelong day, and which now assembled on all sides, like misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire and falling monarch.
Page 454 - The court does not recognize their application. There is no likeness between the cases. They are in opposition to each other, and there is an impassable gulf between them. The difference is that . which exists between freedom and slavery; and a greater cannot be imagined.
Page 385 - She was a brown beauty: that is, her eyes, hair, and eyebrows and eyelashes were dark; her hair curling with rich undulations and waving over her shoulders; but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in sunshine; except her cheeks, which were a bright red, and her lips which were of a still deeper crjmspn,.