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... ready reason , that these people who are always debating what is right and what is wrong are the very people to go wrong . So also even Catholic sovereigns , and the Popes themselves , have found that the Jesuits are not wholly worthy ...
... ready reason , that these people who are always debating what is right and what is wrong are the very people to go wrong . So also even Catholic sovereigns , and the Popes themselves , have found that the Jesuits are not wholly worthy ...
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... ready man , first in war , first in love , and equal to the occasion , was the man to be esteemed . Not that fighting alone was ever to be solely commended . There could not produce enough come out of that ! ' says a quaint thinker ...
... ready man , first in war , first in love , and equal to the occasion , was the man to be esteemed . Not that fighting alone was ever to be solely commended . There could not produce enough come out of that ! ' says a quaint thinker ...
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... Ready , aye ready . ' Whether to do or to die , it matters little to such a man , seeing that , in the battle of human life , each moment a valiant man goes forth , and lays down his life . And this he does without thinking , in an ...
... Ready , aye ready . ' Whether to do or to die , it matters little to such a man , seeing that , in the battle of human life , each moment a valiant man goes forth , and lays down his life . And this he does without thinking , in an ...
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... ready , therefore , ' is the constant injunction in the Bible . There is in all well - bred animals an ease , readiness , and cheerfulness in work that is superior to some men ; but those men are little better than fools . There are ...
... ready , therefore , ' is the constant injunction in the Bible . There is in all well - bred animals an ease , readiness , and cheerfulness in work that is superior to some men ; but those men are little better than fools . There are ...
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... ready man . It is lucky that it is so . There are so many hindrances , such coldness , deadness , and delay everywhere , that , if it were not for some forward and excellent spirits , the world would forget itself to marble , and little ...
... ready man . It is lucky that it is so . There are so many hindrances , such coldness , deadness , and delay everywhere , that , if it were not for some forward and excellent spirits , the world would forget itself to marble , and little ...
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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.