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... hope , say that it does not die with us but will rise again . What we call egotism , the French , who have formed their noun somewhat more closely than we , term égoïsme ; and speaking of an adept in this passion , of which their nation ...
... hope , say that it does not die with us but will rise again . What we call egotism , the French , who have formed their noun somewhat more closely than we , term égoïsme ; and speaking of an adept in this passion , of which their nation ...
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... hope of improvement . That is the case with most of us . On this little angle- land - this piece of earth rescued from the yeasty waves of the Atlantic and German Oceans , blown over by chilling winds from the north - east , and watered ...
... hope of improvement . That is the case with most of us . On this little angle- land - this piece of earth rescued from the yeasty waves of the Atlantic and German Oceans , blown over by chilling winds from the north - east , and watered ...
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... hope , ourselves of that class , and we feel bound to aid him in this his day of defeat ; for the working man has received a heavy blow and sore discouragement at the hands of all Britain . Not a working candidate succeeded it was ...
... hope , ourselves of that class , and we feel bound to aid him in this his day of defeat ; for the working man has received a heavy blow and sore discouragement at the hands of all Britain . Not a working candidate succeeded it was ...
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... hope , a better . If we knew as certainly as we know a mathematical problem , or the result of a sum in arithmetic , that the persons ( many pious Roman Catholics ) really benefited by their deaths , there would remain a ready solution ...
... hope , a better . If we knew as certainly as we know a mathematical problem , or the result of a sum in arithmetic , that the persons ( many pious Roman Catholics ) really benefited by their deaths , there would remain a ready solution ...
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... hope as to a blessed future . When he writes of the soul , he doubts it - ' You might as well talk of the soul of a vegetable . ' He sneers ; and there- fore , without compensation , the whole scheme of man , as far as he saw it , was a ...
... hope as to a blessed future . When he writes of the soul , he doubts it - ' You might as well talk of the soul of a vegetable . ' He sneers ; and there- fore , without compensation , the whole scheme of man , as far as he saw it , was a ...
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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.