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... Lord Dudley to affix his signature to an assertion so outrageously at variance with truth , we deeply lament that an Englishman could be found so deplorably ignorant . At the time when Lord Dudley and his colleagues were giving being to ...
... Lord Dudley to affix his signature to an assertion so outrageously at variance with truth , we deeply lament that an Englishman could be found so deplorably ignorant . At the time when Lord Dudley and his colleagues were giving being to ...
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... Lord Dun- raven's , a worthy man , Mr North , a resident landlord too , who preserves his game like a gentleman , and has imported a hundred brace of phea- sants to stock his woods . I hope to see him in the House of Lords yet : he ...
... Lord Dun- raven's , a worthy man , Mr North , a resident landlord too , who preserves his game like a gentleman , and has imported a hundred brace of phea- sants to stock his woods . I hope to see him in the House of Lords yet : he ...
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... Lord help him ! than to set off , night after night , galloping after a ghost , -with Bob Ostler at his heels , and ... lord's , and the squire's , -and divers other fair ones set their caps at wary Andrew , and spake sweet words to him ...
... Lord help him ! than to set off , night after night , galloping after a ghost , -with Bob Ostler at his heels , and ... lord's , and the squire's , -and divers other fair ones set their caps at wary Andrew , and spake sweet words to him ...
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... Lord's Prayer and the Belief , and great part of the Ten Command- ments , though he stuck fast at the 39 Articles , and the Athanasian Creed , which his father had thought it expe- dient to include among his theological studies . It was ...
... Lord's Prayer and the Belief , and great part of the Ten Command- ments , though he stuck fast at the 39 Articles , and the Athanasian Creed , which his father had thought it expe- dient to include among his theological studies . It was ...
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... Lord A. be a notorious organ of the lowest liberalism , Lord B. will raise his voice at the table against overthrowing the constitution ; that if Lord C. be the public assailant of the Church , the avowed advocate of every sectarian in ...
... Lord A. be a notorious organ of the lowest liberalism , Lord B. will raise his voice at the table against overthrowing the constitution ; that if Lord C. be the public assailant of the Church , the avowed advocate of every sectarian in ...
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Page 178 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Page 37 - No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
Page 178 - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men : he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music...
Page 578 - For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Page 364 - The man who proceeds in it with steadiness and resolution, -will in a little time find that ' her ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are peace.
Page 5 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Page 344 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 375 - Our manner of life was this. Lord Byron, who used to sit up at night, writing Don Juan (which he did under the influence of gin and water), rose late in the morning. He breakfasted ; read ; lounged about, singing an air, generally out of Rossini, and in a swaggering style, though in a voice at once small and veiled...
Page 397 - ... ask, To see how this cockney-bred setter of rabbits Takes gravely the lord of the forest to task, And judges of lions by puppy-dog habits. ' Nay, fed as he was (and this makes it a dark case) With sops every day from the lion's own pan, He lifts up his leg at the noble beast's carcass, And — does all a dog, so diminutive, can.
Page 396 - Lives" are the rage) The whole Reminiscences, wond'rous and strange, Of a small puppy-dog, that liv'd once in the cage Of the late noble Lion at Exeter 'Change. Though the dog is a dog of the kind they call