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... comforts and inventions . Unless Nelson had believed in himself , we should not have been where we are now . Unless Brindley had believed in his one im- portant scheme , and had thought that ' God Almighty BELIEF IN SELF .
... comforts and inventions . Unless Nelson had believed in himself , we should not have been where we are now . Unless Brindley had believed in his one im- portant scheme , and had thought that ' God Almighty BELIEF IN SELF .
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... comfort , peace , and happiness of a whole family . In a burlesque essay the ' Saturday Review , ' some years ago , insisted that early rising was a bad and an unchristian thing , because it made a man so thoroughly well satisfied with ...
... comfort , peace , and happiness of a whole family . In a burlesque essay the ' Saturday Review , ' some years ago , insisted that early rising was a bad and an unchristian thing , because it made a man so thoroughly well satisfied with ...
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... comfort him in sickness and to dower him with love ; as his sister , only to shield and to aid him , to cover his faults and to plead his excuses ; as his sweetheart , as something more beautiful than common humanity , some piece of ...
... comfort him in sickness and to dower him with love ; as his sister , only to shield and to aid him , to cover his faults and to plead his excuses ; as his sweetheart , as something more beautiful than common humanity , some piece of ...
Page 95
... comfort , help , clothing , sustenance , or elevation of our brothers is noble . Ay , labour is a noble thing , To work from morn till eve , To bend down o'er your shuttle , That your little ones may live . All such labour is noble . So ...
... comfort , help , clothing , sustenance , or elevation of our brothers is noble . Ay , labour is a noble thing , To work from morn till eve , To bend down o'er your shuttle , That your little ones may live . All such labour is noble . So ...
Page 104
... comfort , in a great and powerful hive , without many vices . No kingdom , no state , he says , can flourish without vices . Take away vanity from your great and rich ladies and you destroy your manufactures in silk ; no more workmen ...
... comfort , in a great and powerful hive , without many vices . No kingdom , no state , he says , can flourish without vices . Take away vanity from your great and rich ladies and you destroy your manufactures in silk ; no more workmen ...
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.