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... better they should be graced with elegance than daubed with cost . " What was chiefly remarkable in the visit of George was the tact with which the monarch avoided every occasion of offence , and how , trading on so very slender a stock ...
... better they should be graced with elegance than daubed with cost . " What was chiefly remarkable in the visit of George was the tact with which the monarch avoided every occasion of offence , and how , trading on so very slender a stock ...
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... better disposed for effect , or in a locality richer in historic recollection , than along the High Street of Edinburgh , with its old Parlia- ment Hall , its venerable High Church , and its double line of tall , antique houses , some ...
... better disposed for effect , or in a locality richer in historic recollection , than along the High Street of Edinburgh , with its old Parlia- ment Hall , its venerable High Church , and its double line of tall , antique houses , some ...
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... better times in store ; that the right shall eventually prevail , whatever may be the fate of those who contend for it in the present ; that Christ reigns ; and that the day is assuredly coming , though it must rise on the tombs of the ...
... better times in store ; that the right shall eventually prevail , whatever may be the fate of those who contend for it in the present ; that Christ reigns ; and that the day is assuredly coming , though it must rise on the tombs of the ...
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... better marked character than the French , and no people whose peculiar tastes and dispositions seem to have been so closely studied by their more sagacious statesman . They are employed at present , heart and soul , in adding , at the ...
... better marked character than the French , and no people whose peculiar tastes and dispositions seem to have been so closely studied by their more sagacious statesman . They are employed at present , heart and soul , in adding , at the ...
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... better English historians , Charles I. does not stand high . Such was the character of his government , that they had as one man to take up arms against it ; and it is known that , save for their success on that occasion , the Star ...
... better English historians , Charles I. does not stand high . Such was the character of his government , that they had as one man to take up arms against it ; and it is known that , save for their success on that occasion , the Star ...
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Page 417 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 417 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream...
Page 236 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 59 - Solon caution'd to regard his end ; In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.
Page 485 - Man in society is like a flower Blown in its native bed : 'tis there alone His faculties, expanded in full bloom, Shine out ; there only reach their proper use.
Page 45 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Page 435 - THE HISTORY OF PALESTINE, from the Patriarchal Age to the Present Time ; with Chapters on the Geography and Natural History of the Country, the Customs and Institutions of the Hebrews.
Page 274 - Road, and Finchley Common, on the great Northern Road, were perhaps the most celebrated of these spots. The Cambridge scholars trembled when they approached Epping Forest, even in broad daylight. Seamen who had just been paid off at Chatham were often compelled to deliver their purses on Gadshill, celebrated near a hundred years earlier by the greatest of poets as the scene of the depredations of Falstaff.
Page 130 - As bashful, yet impatient to be seen. Hence the declivity is sharp and short, And such the re-ascent ; between them weeps A little naiad her impov'rish'd urn All summer long, which winter fills again.
Page 418 - But bring a Scotsman frae his hill, Clap in his cheek a Highland gill, Say, such is royal George's will, An' there's the foe, He has nae thought but how to kill Twa at a blow. Nae cauld, faint-hearted doubtings tease him: Death comes, wi' fearless eye he sees him; Wi' bluidy hand a welcome gies him : An' when he fa's, His latest draught o' breathin lea'es him In faint huzzas.