The Metropolitan, Volume 36James Cochrane, 1843 |
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... honour of the sea - born goddess the Ranee built that holy shrine in the Cypress isle ; where my pa- rents often pour forth in secret the overflowings of their grateful hearts , for the blessings vouchsafed to their child . Thither I ...
... honour of the sea - born goddess the Ranee built that holy shrine in the Cypress isle ; where my pa- rents often pour forth in secret the overflowings of their grateful hearts , for the blessings vouchsafed to their child . Thither I ...
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... I will take advantage of his kind trust in my honour till to - morrow , when I will repay him , with grati- tude to Heaven for having enabled me to do so . " Zechariah , after a few more speeches to Sir Henry 38 The Lawyer's Two Visits .
... I will take advantage of his kind trust in my honour till to - morrow , when I will repay him , with grati- tude to Heaven for having enabled me to do so . " Zechariah , after a few more speeches to Sir Henry 38 The Lawyer's Two Visits .
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... honour of young Marcellus , the son of his sister Octavia - with the remains of its very good Doric and chaste Ionic architecture , was formed into dwelling - houses about the beginning of the sixteenth century . The mausolea of that ...
... honour of young Marcellus , the son of his sister Octavia - with the remains of its very good Doric and chaste Ionic architecture , was formed into dwelling - houses about the beginning of the sixteenth century . The mausolea of that ...
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... honour of him and of his wife Salonina , about the middle of the third century , by a person whose name was M. Aurelius Victor , as appears from the inscription upon it . Constructed of travertine , without any sculpture or marble , it ...
... honour of him and of his wife Salonina , about the middle of the third century , by a person whose name was M. Aurelius Victor , as appears from the inscription upon it . Constructed of travertine , without any sculpture or marble , it ...
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... honour , who had knelt down by her side ; further off , two ladies were conversing in a low voice . A profusion of wax tapers lighted up the chamber , as though it had been a chapel illuminated for the service of the dead , and their ...
... honour , who had knelt down by her side ; further off , two ladies were conversing in a low voice . A profusion of wax tapers lighted up the chamber , as though it had been a chapel illuminated for the service of the dead , and their ...
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Page 115 - PRACTICAL MERCANTILE CORRESPONDENCE. A Collection of Modern Letters of Business, with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and an Appendix, containing a Dictionary of Commercial Technicalities, pro forma Invoices, Account Sales, Bills of Lading, and Bills of Exchange ; also an Explanation of the German Chain Rule.
Page 319 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Page 80 - ... when such a man would speak, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Page 54 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 254 - twas, but it express'd her fortune, And she died singing it : that song to-night Will not go from my mind ; I have much to do, But to go hang my head all at one side, And sing it like poor Barbara.
Page 320 - The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her. She will do him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.
Page 7 - that the Christian religion should become universal amongst us. I look at the wisdom of these worshippers of Jehovah, and see how superior they are to us in every respect. Their ships are like floating houses, so that they can traverse the tempest-driven ocean for months with perfect safety...
Page 318 - There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
Page 101 - On these thy spirit loved to dwell Untainted by the world's control. My brother, those were happy days When thou and I were children yet ; How fondly memory still surveys Those scenes the heart can ne'er forget...
Page 319 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and...