St. George; Or, The Canadian League, Volume 2E.G. Fuller, 1852 - American fiction |
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... once by summary means - others I intended to make the tools of my ambition . " " What was the aim of that ambition ? " " I intended to raise myself to power - it mattered not by what means , or by what name I wielded that power - presi ...
... once by summary means - others I intended to make the tools of my ambition . " " What was the aim of that ambition ? " " I intended to raise myself to power - it mattered not by what means , or by what name I wielded that power - presi ...
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... once plundered a ship in which were a youth and his father , a gray - headed old man ; both were murdered and thrown overboard . In my travels after- wards , I fell in love with a Miss Wentworth . I married her , and shortly after this ...
... once plundered a ship in which were a youth and his father , a gray - headed old man ; both were murdered and thrown overboard . In my travels after- wards , I fell in love with a Miss Wentworth . I married her , and shortly after this ...
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... once more breathed freely . But he was terribly spent . He had not proceeded along the road very far , when he saw a person standing before him , at the distance of five or six hun- dred yards , and some dark object extended at his feet ...
... once more breathed freely . But he was terribly spent . He had not proceeded along the road very far , when he saw a person standing before him , at the distance of five or six hun- dred yards , and some dark object extended at his feet ...
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... once told me that he committed the crime , and asked me if I would aid him in his escape ; I told him that it was not my duty . Very well , said he , there is only one person sufficiently powerful to aid me in this strait , that is ...
... once told me that he committed the crime , and asked me if I would aid him in his escape ; I told him that it was not my duty . Very well , said he , there is only one person sufficiently powerful to aid me in this strait , that is ...
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... once or twice across the room , as if trying to collect his thoughts . " I must go and see those parties , " he said , " or some mischief may oc- Simms may blab , if he thinks he has been deserted.- By the bye , St. George , we shall ...
... once or twice across the room , as if trying to collect his thoughts . " I must go and see those parties , " he said , " or some mischief may oc- Simms may blab , if he thinks he has been deserted.- By the bye , St. George , we shall ...
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Page 297 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well ; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplex'd in the extreme ; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe...
Page 43 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Page 269 - Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers; And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there, The...
Page 190 - The mists boil up around the glaciers; clouds Rise curling fast beneath me, white and sulphury, Like foam from the roused ocean of deep Hell, Whose every wave breaks on a living shore, Heap'd with the damn'd like pebbles.— I am giddy.
Page 41 - Lower Canada. 4. That all union between Church and State is hereby declared to be DISSOLVED, and every person shall be at liberty freely to exercise such religion or belief as shall be dictated to him by his conscience.
Page 158 - ... to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead; and may God, in his infinite goodness, have mercy on your soul!
Page 269 - HE who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers), And marked the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there...
Page 181 - O, that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come ! But it sufficeth, that the day will end, And then the end is known.
Page 39 - Acts passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of King George III., hath been continually violated by the British Government, and our rights usurped ; And...
Page 1 - II is no marvel — from my very birth My soul was drunk with love, which did pervade And mingle with whate'er I saw on earth ; Of objects all inanimate I made Idols, and out of wild and lonely flowers, And rocks, whereby they grew, a paradise, "Whero 1 did lay me down within the shade Of waving trees, and dream'd uncounted hours, Though I was chid for wandering...