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If just , He might well let us be struck down , for we have deserved it ; but He would most certainly visit our oppressors , whose guilt is far greater than ours ever was— and of this I am as sure as that the lamp here is burning -with ...
If just , He might well let us be struck down , for we have deserved it ; but He would most certainly visit our oppressors , whose guilt is far greater than ours ever was— and of this I am as sure as that the lamp here is burning -with ...
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If not now , it will be true a little later , I feel sure : those islanders are first - rate sailors , and have proved already what they are . But the fate of the war must be decided on land ; and there the tables will be turned .
If not now , it will be true a little later , I feel sure : those islanders are first - rate sailors , and have proved already what they are . But the fate of the war must be decided on land ; and there the tables will be turned .
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Yet their satanic pride - I know them well , and am sure of it - will urge them on in spite of all , ―on , on to the edge of the pit , and over . And we shall be sated with ven- geance , we shall be glutted with it .
Yet their satanic pride - I know them well , and am sure of it - will urge them on in spite of all , ―on , on to the edge of the pit , and over . And we shall be sated with ven- geance , we shall be glutted with it .
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We are not sure that some of the incidents in Mrs Ward's new book 1 are not equally fantastic . Nor is that result to be avoided if you start with the notion that one of the spouses , whose fortunes are described , is irresponsible and ...
We are not sure that some of the incidents in Mrs Ward's new book 1 are not equally fantastic . Nor is that result to be avoided if you start with the notion that one of the spouses , whose fortunes are described , is irresponsible and ...
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And sure enough the collec- tion is now in the British Museum . Well , all this would have little enough connection with heraldry were it not that out of the craze for stamp - collecting sprang the far more intelligible ( I dare not say ...
And sure enough the collec- tion is now in the British Museum . Well , all this would have little enough connection with heraldry were it not that out of the craze for stamp - collecting sprang the far more intelligible ( I dare not say ...
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