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... known from his writings alone , for his political life becomes their best commentary . He is described as having shewn himself pre - eminently to be a man of perfect independence ; at one time his opposition to absolutism , and at ...
... known from his writings alone , for his political life becomes their best commentary . He is described as having shewn himself pre - eminently to be a man of perfect independence ; at one time his opposition to absolutism , and at ...
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... known the touch of calamity . When our Radicals and our Conservatives prophecy England's decline with such easy confidence , because they have no other measure than the false one they take from France , an Englishman , nay , even I ...
... known the touch of calamity . When our Radicals and our Conservatives prophecy England's decline with such easy confidence , because they have no other measure than the false one they take from France , an Englishman , nay , even I ...
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... known to give the closest attention to impor- tant cases in the Court of Chancery , from ten till four o'clock , and at five take his seat on the Woolsack , where he would narrowly watch all the proceedings until ten or eleven o'clock ...
... known to give the closest attention to impor- tant cases in the Court of Chancery , from ten till four o'clock , and at five take his seat on the Woolsack , where he would narrowly watch all the proceedings until ten or eleven o'clock ...
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... known to posterity than any other statesmen of the present day . We must , however , refer the reader to the volume itself , now before us , for this highly satisfactory sketch of him , and all the other prominent characters in the ...
... known to posterity than any other statesmen of the present day . We must , however , refer the reader to the volume itself , now before us , for this highly satisfactory sketch of him , and all the other prominent characters in the ...
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... known , was a great stammerer ; a tactless guest broadly noticed the defect , remarking , It is a pity , Dr. Darwin , that you stutter so much . ' No Sir , ' rejoined the doctor , ( doing ample justice to his impediment as he spoke ) I ...
... known , was a great stammerer ; a tactless guest broadly noticed the defect , remarking , It is a pity , Dr. Darwin , that you stutter so much . ' No Sir , ' rejoined the doctor , ( doing ample justice to his impediment as he spoke ) I ...
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Page 344 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 344 - Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven ; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 85 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Page 335 - And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them ; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau ; for the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 579 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake : Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. All. Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 3 Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf : Witches...
Page 434 - Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. It is a little thing to speak a phrase Of common comfort which by daily use Has almost lost its sense ; yet on the ear Of him who thought to die unmourned 'twill fall Like choicest music...
Page 85 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 287 - Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
Page 344 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 85 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...