Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social TopicsSmith, Elder and Company, 1858 - 308 pages |
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... honour to the writer than to the receiver ; but except in cases where you can trust discretion , it would be better not to give my name . Ninety - nine out of a hundred would put my showing it you down to the score of vanity . You can ...
... honour to the writer than to the receiver ; but except in cases where you can trust discretion , it would be better not to give my name . Ninety - nine out of a hundred would put my showing it you down to the score of vanity . You can ...
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... honour the feelings of that man who stands before us with a modest feeling of his own dignity in his counte- nance , which seems to say , " The shoes that I wear are clouted , but I paid for the mending of them myself ; the house that I ...
... honour the feelings of that man who stands before us with a modest feeling of his own dignity in his counte- nance , which seems to say , " The shoes that I wear are clouted , but I paid for the mending of them myself ; the house that I ...
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... honoured me with a request that I would deliver the opening address to your society . It was at a period when events which had recently taken place upon the Continent , caused every large movement to be looked upon with suspicious eyes ...
... honoured me with a request that I would deliver the opening address to your society . It was at a period when events which had recently taken place upon the Continent , caused every large movement to be looked upon with suspicious eyes ...
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... honour , " said he , " are in such a state sometimes , that the poor craturs could count the stars as they lay on their beds . " I am not prepared to dispute that it might have been better for the Irish peasant if , instead of lying on ...
... honour , " said he , " are in such a state sometimes , that the poor craturs could count the stars as they lay on their beds . " I am not prepared to dispute that it might have been better for the Irish peasant if , instead of lying on ...
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... our King Maria Theresa . " No calcu- lation in that moment ; no mercenary sordidness , balancing the question whether a nation could afford to defend weakness and honour at the expense of a costly war , or not . They 104.
... our King Maria Theresa . " No calcu- lation in that moment ; no mercenary sordidness , balancing the question whether a nation could afford to defend weakness and honour at the expense of a costly war , or not . They 104.
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