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... thousand instances of my cigars , my port , my claret , my tandem , my books , and my tailor , or the fellow who ' built ' my hunting coat . People of fair position and education talk like this ; of course they will indignantly deny it ...
... thousand instances of my cigars , my port , my claret , my tandem , my books , and my tailor , or the fellow who ' built ' my hunting coat . People of fair position and education talk like this ; of course they will indignantly deny it ...
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... thousand hindrances to live a happy life ; life itself is too short to be certain . No matter , we have in us a guide and rule , which will always tell us whether we be right or wrong . Let us satisfy that , and we shall be happy ...
... thousand hindrances to live a happy life ; life itself is too short to be certain . No matter , we have in us a guide and rule , which will always tell us whether we be right or wrong . Let us satisfy that , and we shall be happy ...
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... thousand crimes , ' the fellow eaten up with murders and remorse . Women shed abundant tears over this villanous puppet in black boots and blacker ringlets , and he lasted for a time , till Walter Scott brought back the pure and the ...
... thousand crimes , ' the fellow eaten up with murders and remorse . Women shed abundant tears over this villanous puppet in black boots and blacker ringlets , and he lasted for a time , till Walter Scott brought back the pure and the ...
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... thousand a year could not fight in the Crimea , could by itself not look well , speak well , and eat well . Ten thousand a year could not put its arm round your waist , could it ? ' Money is the most empty windbag in the world when you ...
... thousand a year could not fight in the Crimea , could by itself not look well , speak well , and eat well . Ten thousand a year could not put its arm round your waist , could it ? ' Money is the most empty windbag in the world when you ...
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... beaten . Ah , ' said he in French , if Louis XIV . had a hundred thousand such men as you , would carry on the war a little differently . ' " Tis not , ' he said the soldier , as he saluted him , " F 2 ONE GREAT MAN . 67.
... beaten . Ah , ' said he in French , if Louis XIV . had a hundred thousand such men as you , would carry on the war a little differently . ' " Tis not , ' he said the soldier , as he saluted him , " F 2 ONE GREAT MAN . 67.
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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.