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... Individuals so distinguished are usually unhappy in their family relations -men not benevolent or beneficent to individuals , but almost hostile to them , yet lavishing money and labour and time on the race , the abstract notion . The ...
... Individuals so distinguished are usually unhappy in their family relations -men not benevolent or beneficent to individuals , but almost hostile to them , yet lavishing money and labour and time on the race , the abstract notion . The ...
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... individual phenomena by the appli- cation of eternal and overruling principles , is unintelligible to many , and disagreeable to more ; -to leave this species of converse - if converse it deserves to be called - and pass an entire day ...
... individual phenomena by the appli- cation of eternal and overruling principles , is unintelligible to many , and disagreeable to more ; -to leave this species of converse - if converse it deserves to be called - and pass an entire day ...
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... individual and unexpected . But when he was dealing deeply with a question , the demand upon the intellect of the hearer was very great ; not so much for any hardness of language , for his diction was always simple and easy ; nor for ...
... individual and unexpected . But when he was dealing deeply with a question , the demand upon the intellect of the hearer was very great ; not so much for any hardness of language , for his diction was always simple and easy ; nor for ...
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... individual charity or public taxation - how specious soever that pretext may be — and you will never thereafter recover the lost means of per- petual cultivation . Give back to the Church what the nation originally consecrated to its ...
... individual charity or public taxation - how specious soever that pretext may be — and you will never thereafter recover the lost means of per- petual cultivation . Give back to the Church what the nation originally consecrated to its ...
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... individual said— That he , for one , would not shrink from affirming , that if the House of Commons chose to burn one of their own members in Palace Yard , it had an inherent power and right by the constitution to do so . ' This was ...
... individual said— That he , for one , would not shrink from affirming , that if the House of Commons chose to burn one of their own members in Palace Yard , it had an inherent power and right by the constitution to do so . ' This was ...
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Page 310 - Etrurian shades High overarched embower; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry. While with perfidious hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown. Abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change. He called so loud that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded...
Page 309 - By four Cherubic shapes. Four faces each Had wondrous; as with stars, their bodies all And wings were set with eyes ; with eyes the wheels Of beryl, and careering fires between...
Page 468 - Licence they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see, For all this waste of wealth and loss of blood.
Page 449 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Page 262 - Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
Page 189 - IV. Forgive me, Freedom ! O forgive those dreams ! I hear thy voice, I hear thy loud lament, From bleak Helvetia's icy cavern sent — I hear thy groans upon her blood-stained streams ! Heroes, that for your peaceful country perished, And ye that, fleeing, spot your mountain-snows With bleeding wounds ; forgive me, that I cherished...
Page 331 - He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
Page 195 - Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play...
Page 293 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers. Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 220 - This beauty, in the blossom of my youth, When my first fire knew no adulterate incense, Nor I no way to flatter, but my fondness, In all the bravery my friends could...