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... affair , in which thy service is essential . " " I will do anything , uncle , in my power . " " Thou canst give me life , if thou wilt ? " But Sir Randal looked very blank at this proposition . " I mean life spiritual , Randal , " said ...
... affair , in which thy service is essential . " " I will do anything , uncle , in my power . " " Thou canst give me life , if thou wilt ? " But Sir Randal looked very blank at this proposition . " I mean life spiritual , Randal , " said ...
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... affair was entrusted to the court watch and machine maker . This man promised , by a peculiar and extraordinary operation , to expel Mrs. Mouserinks and all her family from the palace for ever . He invented curious machines , in which ...
... affair was entrusted to the court watch and machine maker . This man promised , by a peculiar and extraordinary operation , to expel Mrs. Mouserinks and all her family from the palace for ever . He invented curious machines , in which ...
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... affairs here and of the amiable and dis- interested monarch of these realms . Guizot's political career commenced in 1814 , when he was secretary under the abbe Montesquieu , at that time Minister of the Interior . He then published a ...
... affairs here and of the amiable and dis- interested monarch of these realms . Guizot's political career commenced in 1814 , when he was secretary under the abbe Montesquieu , at that time Minister of the Interior . He then published a ...
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... affairs , it is very difficult not to be personal , and it is not easy to be temperate ; for the whole faults of the Government fall on one man , the actual , but irresponsible head of it ; and these faults are so glaring , the absence ...
... affairs , it is very difficult not to be personal , and it is not easy to be temperate ; for the whole faults of the Government fall on one man , the actual , but irresponsible head of it ; and these faults are so glaring , the absence ...
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... affair of the spy , Conseil , is exactly of a piece with the ministerial conduct in the Spanish business ; the Debats at length produces its defence , and denies altogether the accusations against the Duke of Montebello . What a ...
... affair of the spy , Conseil , is exactly of a piece with the ministerial conduct in the Spanish business ; the Debats at length produces its defence , and denies altogether the accusations against the Duke of Montebello . What a ...
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Page 61 - ONCE upon a time there was an old woman who lived in a village not very far off, and who went to market to buy a sack of beans. Now, she had to walk back ten miles over a dreary common ; a long step at most times, but a terrible pull when one has a sack of beans on one's back. It was night before she got...
Page 1 - Say not that Judah's harp hath lost its tone, Or that no bard hath found it where it hung Broken and lonely, voiceless and unstrung, Beside the sluggish streams of Babylon : Slowman * repeats the strain his fathers sung, And Judah's burning lyre is Braham's own...
Page 287 - In the first place, a delay of some months consequent upon the postponement of the newspaper stamp reduction, operated on the minds of many who were originally parties to the enterprise ; in the next, the majority of those who remained faithful were wholly inexperienced in the art and...
Page 2 - Mark well the form, 0 ! reader, nor deride The sacred symbol — Jew's harp glorified — Which circled with a blooming wreath is seen Of verdant bays ; and thus are typified The pleasant music and the baize of green Whence issues out at eve, Braham with front serene ! NM ROTHSCHILD, ESQ.
Page 2 - Mark well the form, 0 reader ! nor deride The sacred symbol — Jew's harp glorified — Which, circled with a blooming wreath, is seen Of verdant bays; and thus are typified The pleasant music, and the baize of green, Whence issues out at eve Braham with front serene.
Page 63 - So the little fellow gave her his arm ; and there they went across the common, talking about beans, and the weather, and what not, as if they had been two angels. He saw her almost home ; and you may be sure that when she got there she fell down on her knees and said her prayers ; as well she might, after getting off so well. ' While she was in the middle of her prayers, in comes her husband ; and as soon as she'd done, he asked for a bit of bacon and some of the beans ; so she cut a large piece,...
Page 287 - Constitutional), the feelings of the gentleman who once walked at his own funeral," and the editor, or perhaps his late Paris Correspondent adds, " The adverse circumstances have been various. In the philosophy of ill-luck it may be laid down as a principle that every point of discouragement tends to one common centre of defeat. When the fates do concur in one discomfiture their unanimity is wonderful. So has it happened in the case of the Constitutional. In the first place, a delay of some months...
Page 1 - It is needless to speak of the eminent vocalist and improvisatore. He nightly delights a numerous and respectable audience at the Cider Cellar; and while on this subject, I cannot refrain from mentioning the kindness of Mr. Evans, the worthy proprietor of that establishment. ". B. — A table (thote every Friday. — W. WORDSWORTH.