The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, Volume 21John Clark Ridpath Globe Publishing Company, 1898 - Literature |
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... poor Irish laborer killed suddenly on the line of the railroad by the blasting of rocks . The priest was absent ; for , although there was a numerous body of Irish Catholics in that vicinity , he came only once in six weeks . Dur- ing ...
... poor Irish laborer killed suddenly on the line of the railroad by the blasting of rocks . The priest was absent ; for , although there was a numerous body of Irish Catholics in that vicinity , he came only once in six weeks . Dur- ing ...
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... poor man who reposed there in his pine coffin it was as good a tenement as the most sumptuous palace ever reared . When I see the dead going from an abode like this , the thought comes up that perhaps they have lost little , and are ...
... poor man who reposed there in his pine coffin it was as good a tenement as the most sumptuous palace ever reared . When I see the dead going from an abode like this , the thought comes up that perhaps they have lost little , and are ...
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... poor people had , in the depth of poverty , resorted to the very God of Nature to memorize their dead . But I must not forget to notice , by way of memorial , the history of that poor man . He was one of those who lived by the sweat of ...
... poor people had , in the depth of poverty , resorted to the very God of Nature to memorize their dead . But I must not forget to notice , by way of memorial , the history of that poor man . He was one of those who lived by the sweat of ...
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... poor bird of its young ; And I loved her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue . I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to a dove ; That it ever attended the bold , And she called it the sister ...
... poor bird of its young ; And I loved her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue . I have heard her with sweetness unfold How that pity was due to a dove ; That it ever attended the bold , And she called it the sister ...
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... poor not only as servants but as brethren , and to look on themselves not only as the masters , but as the patrons and protectors of the needy . On this view , the industrious poor are entitled to the rich man's charity ; since , in the ...
... poor not only as servants but as brethren , and to look on themselves not only as the masters , but as the patrons and protectors of the needy . On this view , the industrious poor are entitled to the rich man's charity ; since , in the ...
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