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... taken advantage of by the ne'er- do - weels of that town . At a meeting of the Town Council , Councillor Munro said : — " It is a gross injustice that Oban should have been left for more than a week in charge of two policemen , who were ...
... taken advantage of by the ne'er- do - weels of that town . At a meeting of the Town Council , Councillor Munro said : — " It is a gross injustice that Oban should have been left for more than a week in charge of two policemen , who were ...
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... taken place , and had made full allowance for it . What wonderful persons these Commissioners must be to possess such knowledge , and yet never to mention it in all the discussions that took place on the subject when they were fixing ...
... taken place , and had made full allowance for it . What wonderful persons these Commissioners must be to possess such knowledge , and yet never to mention it in all the discussions that took place on the subject when they were fixing ...
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... taken in the inaugura- tion of the coming co - operative commonwealth is abundantly clear . The worker must be put on such a footing as to enable him to negociate with the capitalist on something like equal terms . Hitherto the employer ...
... taken in the inaugura- tion of the coming co - operative commonwealth is abundantly clear . The worker must be put on such a footing as to enable him to negociate with the capitalist on something like equal terms . Hitherto the employer ...
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... taken no firin root because all the best traditions of the country , ancient , mediæval , and modern , are Republican . The land of Mazzini , Garibaldi , and Manni , it is safe to predict , will not long float a Monarchical flag . The ...
... taken no firin root because all the best traditions of the country , ancient , mediæval , and modern , are Republican . The land of Mazzini , Garibaldi , and Manni , it is safe to predict , will not long float a Monarchical flag . The ...
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... taken down . But no . The Tory Landlord Ministry know a trick worth two of that . They seriously propose to buy up the over - rented estates with the taxpayers ' money , calculating the compensation on the basis of the impossible ...
... taken down . But no . The Tory Landlord Ministry know a trick worth two of that . They seriously propose to buy up the over - rented estates with the taxpayers ' money , calculating the compensation on the basis of the impossible ...
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Popular passages
Page 191 - I can give not what men call love : But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above, And the Heavens reject not : The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow...
Page 268 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 116 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 89 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Page 191 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell; High though his titles, proud his name, $ Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And,...
Page 258 - Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Page 191 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true ; It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 208 - I am now trying an experiment very frequent among modern authors, which is to write upon nothing? when the subject is utterly exhausted, to let the pen still move on; by some called the ghost of wit, delighting to walk after the death of its body.
Page 258 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you: and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Page 24 - And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work : in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.