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... thing fittest , i.e. , to stand against gaol - fever . very soon becomes classical . The peni - Gaols were mostly ... things to see , for instance , that gaolers FITHS , Governor of Millbank Penitentiary , etc. , etc. should be no ...
... thing fittest , i.e. , to stand against gaol - fever . very soon becomes classical . The peni - Gaols were mostly ... things to see , for instance , that gaolers FITHS , Governor of Millbank Penitentiary , etc. , etc. should be no ...
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... things in a hurry , so it was a quarter of a century from passing the act to laying the founda- tion stone of ... thing cheaply . His building was to cost only £ 19,000 — and then he promised as grandly as Fourier or St. Simon could have ...
... things in a hurry , so it was a quarter of a century from passing the act to laying the founda- tion stone of ... thing cheaply . His building was to cost only £ 19,000 — and then he promised as grandly as Fourier or St. Simon could have ...
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... things to the committee . " The governor low diet . Meat ( four ounces a day ) and was a nonentity ; and as for the matron , oranges were instantly supplied , and be- she was accused , first , of setting some of fore August was over the ...
... things to the committee . " The governor low diet . Meat ( four ounces a day ) and was a nonentity ; and as for the matron , oranges were instantly supplied , and be- she was accused , first , of setting some of fore August was over the ...
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... things at his own price and paid for them in " prop - nursed by the convicts . erty , " i.e. articles of consumption ... thing nowadays with the Queensland shepherds . A poor fellow lives a dog's life alone in the bush ; and , if he is ...
... things at his own price and paid for them in " prop - nursed by the convicts . erty , " i.e. articles of consumption ... thing nowadays with the Queensland shepherds . A poor fellow lives a dog's life alone in the bush ; and , if he is ...
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... things high and low . III . Can senseless atoms live ? forever live ? And that which animates them ever die ? Can we- together brought , without leave , Then forc'd apart to fly- IV . Be worse for immortality ? Our loss Cannot be ...
... things high and low . III . Can senseless atoms live ? forever live ? And that which animates them ever die ? Can we- together brought , without leave , Then forc'd apart to fly- IV . Be worse for immortality ? Our loss Cannot be ...
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Page 192 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every Man in arms should wish to be ? It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his childish thought...
Page 58 - THE LORD hear thee in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob defend thee. Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion.
Page 139 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Page 499 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 4 - Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me ; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny. What matter if I stand alone ? I wait with joy the coming years ; My heart shall reap where it has sown, And garner up its fruit of tears.
Page 204 - When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things...
Page 492 - The Castle of Otranto, a Story, translated by William Marshal, Gent, from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.
Page 139 - It gave unity to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion; the inculcation and diffusion of which could be made the principal outward purpose of a life.
Page 143 - Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.
Page 143 - Memoires," and came to the passage which relates his father's death, the distressed position of the family, and the sudden inspiration by which he, then a mere boy, felt and made them feel that he would be everything to them — would supply the place of all that they had lost.