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An Essay on the Origin, Character, and Tendency of Creeds and Confessions of ... - Page 66
by John Mason Duncan - 1834 - 262 pages
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A Reply to Dr. Miller's Letter to a Gentleman of Baltimore: In Reference to ...

John Mason Duncan - Creeds - 1826 - 154 pages
...during the period of her disguise, were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those, who, in spite of her loathsome...the light of day: — he is unable to discriminate colours, or recognize faces. But the remedy is, not to remand him into his dungeon, but to accustom...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her. And happy are those, who having dared to receive her in her degraded and...length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and glory." In the arrangement of the preceding examples of allusion, reference is had to the division...
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy arc those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...the light of day : — he is unable to discriminate colours, or recognise faces. But the remedy is, not to remand him into his dungeon, but to accustom...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...hisses, she stings. But woe 'to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her. And happy are those, who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...be rewarded by her, in the time of her beauty and glory." In the arrangement of the preceding examples of Allusion, reference is had to the division...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...hisses, she stings. But woe *to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her. And happy are those, who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...be rewarded by her, in the time of her beauty and glory." In the arrangement of the preceding examples of Allusion, reference is had to the division...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...produces — and that cure is freedom ! When a prisoner leaves his cell, he cannot bear the light of day : — he is unable to discriminate colors, or recognise...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...hisses, she stings. But wo to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired * Orlando Furioso, Canto 43. freedom produces—and that cure is freedom! When a prisoner leaves his...
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The New Englander, Volume 6

Criticism - 1848 - 628 pages
...to wait for liberty till they have become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever. " There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired...produces — and that cure is freedom. When a prisoner leaves his cell, he can not bear the light of day : — he is unable to discriminate colors, or to...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...hisses, she stings. But wo to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...produces — and that cure is freedom! When a prisoner leaves his cell, he cannot bear the light of day ; — he is unable to discriminate colors or recognize...
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Recollections of Mexico

Waddy Thompson - Mexico - 1846 - 336 pages
...shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded, frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her...produces — and that cure is freedom ! When a prisoner leaves his cell, he cannot bear the light of day — he is unable to discriminate colors, or recognize...
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