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... PEACE AND WAR . • 269 The Cost of a Conqueror - Life sometimes well lost - London Dangers - Firemen - Conquest a Fertilising Influence - Deaths along the Coast - London Mortality - The Sword by Gold- Worse than War - England at War ...
... PEACE AND WAR . • 269 The Cost of a Conqueror - Life sometimes well lost - London Dangers - Firemen - Conquest a Fertilising Influence - Deaths along the Coast - London Mortality - The Sword by Gold- Worse than War - England at War ...
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... 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 himself ...
... 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 himself ...
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... peace , cheating some confiding father or gentle wife , still retained a certain amount of courage , that quality being always essential to man ; but beyond that , they had scarcely one human virtue . Fielding , with a high scorn for ...
... peace , cheating some confiding father or gentle wife , still retained a certain amount of courage , that quality being always essential to man ; but beyond that , they had scarcely one human virtue . Fielding , with a high scorn for ...
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... peaceful strength . ' Now this advice ought to be taken , and no doubt it will be . Any aid that we can personally give to it we will , for we love and honour the true worker , being , we hope , ourselves of that class , and we feel ...
... peaceful strength . ' Now this advice ought to be taken , and no doubt it will be . Any aid that we can personally give to it we will , for we love and honour the true worker , being , we hope , ourselves of that class , and we feel ...
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... ; equally ready to praise when praise was due . From such men a few gracious words are indeed precious ; from a flatterer they are worse than worthless : they are poison . PEACE AND WAR . The Cost of a Conqueror - 280 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
... ; equally ready to praise when praise was due . From such men a few gracious words are indeed precious ; from a flatterer they are worse than worthless : they are poison . PEACE AND WAR . The Cost of a Conqueror - 280 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
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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.