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... whole matter , and renders it unnecessary to notice , in any other way , the particular expressions of a libel , which compelled me , with the utmost reluctance , to apply for a Criminal Information . That species of redress the forms ...
... whole matter , and renders it unnecessary to notice , in any other way , the particular expressions of a libel , which compelled me , with the utmost reluctance , to apply for a Criminal Information . That species of redress the forms ...
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... whole of them by a tedious and irksome process . Knowing the great advantage of short - hand , I say this , not at all as a matter of complaint , or even of regret , but with a view to induce fathers of families to have their children ...
... whole of them by a tedious and irksome process . Knowing the great advantage of short - hand , I say this , not at all as a matter of complaint , or even of regret , but with a view to induce fathers of families to have their children ...
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... whole I may be permitted to observe , that it is a compliment I heartily wish I merited , to have it supposed ( as must have been supposed by the writer of " Literary Cookery , " ) that I possess taste , knowledge and originality ...
... whole I may be permitted to observe , that it is a compliment I heartily wish I merited , to have it supposed ( as must have been supposed by the writer of " Literary Cookery , " ) that I possess taste , knowledge and originality ...
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... whole Course , 2 Guineas ; or 3 Guineas with the privilege of introducing a Lady : may be procured at J. Hatchard's , 190 , Picca- dilly ; J. Murray's , Fleet Street ; J. and A. Arch's , Booksellers and Stationers , Cornhill ; Godwin's ...
... whole Course , 2 Guineas ; or 3 Guineas with the privilege of introducing a Lady : may be procured at J. Hatchard's , 190 , Picca- dilly ; J. Murray's , Fleet Street ; J. and A. Arch's , Booksellers and Stationers , Cornhill ; Godwin's ...
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... whole time I did not know what had become of any of them . I attended another course by the same lecturer in 1818 , of which I had taken and preserved only a few scattered excerpts ; and I cannot call to mind whether , even at that date ...
... whole time I did not know what had become of any of them . I attended another course by the same lecturer in 1818 , of which I had taken and preserved only a few scattered excerpts ; and I cannot call to mind whether , even at that date ...
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Page 103 - But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O ! I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer : a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces. O ! the cry did knock Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd. Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and The fraughting souls within her.
Page 135 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say, This thing's to do ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 18 - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Page lxxiii - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Page xcix - Who I, sir? I am one that loves an inch of raw mutton better than an ell of fried stock-fish; and the first letter of my name begins with L.
Page 135 - How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man, If his chief good, and market 1 of his time, Be but to sleep, and feed ? a beast, no more.
Page 135 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 13 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 1 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 53 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
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The Politics and Processes of Scholarship Joseph Moxley,Lagretta Tallent Lenker No preview available - 1995 |