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... Deaths along the Coast - London Mortality - The Sword by Gold- Worse than War - England at War - The Cankers of Peace 283 CHAPTER XXIII . FAITH IN MAN . Trust - Public Confidence - Religion - Society - Sweet Simplicity -Little Actions ...
... Deaths along the Coast - London Mortality - The Sword by Gold- Worse than War - England at War - The Cankers of Peace 283 CHAPTER XXIII . FAITH IN MAN . Trust - Public Confidence - Religion - Society - Sweet Simplicity -Little Actions ...
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... The Holy Office -The Question- Wordsworth - Suggestions - A Glad Philo- sophy - Coleridge - A Death - Bed - The Miserere and Gloria PAGE 307 - Patri • INTRODUCTION - EGOTISM . B The Central Vowel and First CONTENTS . XV.
... The Holy Office -The Question- Wordsworth - Suggestions - A Glad Philo- sophy - Coleridge - A Death - Bed - The Miserere and Gloria PAGE 307 - Patri • INTRODUCTION - EGOTISM . B The Central Vowel and First CONTENTS . XV.
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... death , this greatest of all heathens remained true to the inner guide , and waited for its promptings . As they came not , he prepared to die . He did not reproach his judges : ' You , ' he said , ' go on your ways , having unjustly ...
... death , this greatest of all heathens remained true to the inner guide , and waited for its promptings . As they came not , he prepared to die . He did not reproach his judges : ' You , ' he said , ' go on your ways , having unjustly ...
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... least work from day to day without much promise of making a fortune , yet content to see others possess houses and lands , horses and fine clothes . There may be a million of THE NORSE - MAN'S DEATH . 35 well - to 34 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
... least work from day to day without much promise of making a fortune , yet content to see others possess houses and lands , horses and fine clothes . There may be a million of THE NORSE - MAN'S DEATH . 35 well - to 34 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
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James Hain Friswell. THE NORSE - MAN'S DEATH . 35 well - to - do land , fund , and property holders , who ' live at home at ease , ' and laugh at to - morrow ; but there are certainly not more : and nous autres are obliged to be up and ...
James Hain Friswell. THE NORSE - MAN'S DEATH . 35 well - to - do land , fund , and property holders , who ' live at home at ease , ' and laugh at to - morrow ; but there are certainly not more : and nous autres are obliged to be up and ...
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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.