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... continual wars , it had grown up and increased its power , and now seemed strong and settled by encountering dangers , as piles driven into the ground become more fixed and stable by the impulse and blows which the rammer lays upon them ...
... continual wars , it had grown up and increased its power , and now seemed strong and settled by encountering dangers , as piles driven into the ground become more fixed and stable by the impulse and blows which the rammer lays upon them ...
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... continually exhibited in almost all matters of government . Then mole - eyed econo- mists cry out against necessary expense ; the profiters by things as they are , strenuously resist improvement , and find supporters for their own ...
... continually exhibited in almost all matters of government . Then mole - eyed econo- mists cry out against necessary expense ; the profiters by things as they are , strenuously resist improvement , and find supporters for their own ...
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... continual amusement , he determined to set up as a fortune - teller . He commenced by taking a lodging in the obscure quarter of the Marais , and practising in a small way in that neighbourhood , where the blunders of a beginner would ...
... continual amusement , he determined to set up as a fortune - teller . He commenced by taking a lodging in the obscure quarter of the Marais , and practising in a small way in that neighbourhood , where the blunders of a beginner would ...
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... continual bilious and inflammatory attacks , for several years I was grievously troubled with an affection of the trachea , and many times , after any excess in diet or exertion , or in particular states of the weather , or where there ...
... continual bilious and inflammatory attacks , for several years I was grievously troubled with an affection of the trachea , and many times , after any excess in diet or exertion , or in particular states of the weather , or where there ...
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... continually feel the good or ill effect of his selection . Now , the fittest persons to preside over the several districts would be also the fittest to be the governors of the whole parish ; and therefore the self - interested feeling ...
... continually feel the good or ill effect of his selection . Now , the fittest persons to preside over the several districts would be also the fittest to be the governors of the whole parish ; and therefore the self - interested feeling ...
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Page 437 - No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish...
Page 54 - Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
Page 355 - See! how she leans her cheek upon her hand: O! that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek.
Page 355 - tis not to me she speaks : Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head ; The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp ; her- eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night.
Page 354 - Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 27 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 27 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 437 - Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 156 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 130 - Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair : and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.