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... arms , and , weeping with pleasure , cried , ' Welcome , wel- come ! here you shall find a home and a brother . ' It is needless to add , that this denouement was perfectly agreeable to the stranger , who was then preparing to return to ...
... arms , and , weeping with pleasure , cried , ' Welcome , wel- come ! here you shall find a home and a brother . ' It is needless to add , that this denouement was perfectly agreeable to the stranger , who was then preparing to return to ...
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... arms amidst the watery roar , Scoops out an empire , and usurps the shore . 11 v . Statii Theb . iv . 62 : Et terris maria inclinata repellit . ' And Dryden , Annus . Mirab . st . clxiv .: And view the ocean leaning on the sky . ' Bent ...
... arms amidst the watery roar , Scoops out an empire , and usurps the shore . 11 v . Statii Theb . iv . 62 : Et terris maria inclinata repellit . ' And Dryden , Annus . Mirab . st . clxiv .: And view the ocean leaning on the sky . ' Bent ...
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... arms , Where noble stems transmit the patriot flame , Where kings have toil'd and poets wrote for fame 16 It is extremely difficult to induce a number of free beings to co - operate for their mutual benefits : every possible advantage ...
... arms , Where noble stems transmit the patriot flame , Where kings have toil'd and poets wrote for fame 16 It is extremely difficult to induce a number of free beings to co - operate for their mutual benefits : every possible advantage ...
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... arms , Except when fast approaching danger warms : 17 In the things I have hitherto written , I have neither allured the vanity of the great by flattery , nor satisfied the malignity of the vulgar by scandal ; but have endeavoured to ...
... arms , Except when fast approaching danger warms : 17 In the things I have hitherto written , I have neither allured the vanity of the great by flattery , nor satisfied the malignity of the vulgar by scandal ; but have endeavoured to ...
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... arm to save , The country blooms a garden and a grave . Where then , ah where , shall poverty reside , To ' scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd , He drives his flock to pick the scanty ...
... arm to save , The country blooms a garden and a grave . Where then , ah where , shall poverty reside , To ' scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd , He drives his flock to pick the scanty ...
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