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Page 133
The rest came , and after higher and thicker , till at last the whole the feast was
over they gave all their best palace was surrounded and hid , so that gifts to the
little princess : one gave her not even the roof or the chimneys could virtue ,
another ...
The rest came , and after higher and thicker , till at last the whole the feast was
over they gave all their best palace was surrounded and hid , so that gifts to the
little princess : one gave her not even the roof or the chimneys could virtue ,
another ...
Page 325
At this moment I rose to water if he gave bim any of his sauce , make place for Mr.
Adams , and offered so he had better beg my pardon , and bim a chair ; but aunt
Polly looked like take his honest fare and be off , if he a fury , and after making a ...
At this moment I rose to water if he gave bim any of his sauce , make place for Mr.
Adams , and offered so he had better beg my pardon , and bim a chair ; but aunt
Polly looked like take his honest fare and be off , if he a fury , and after making a ...
Page 355
The whole of the pillars being ' thus supported , longitudiually , the planking on
which the original piers On the 26th of January the long are planted , if decayed ,
as report says room at the Custom House gave way , to be the case , could then ...
The whole of the pillars being ' thus supported , longitudiually , the planking on
which the original piers On the 26th of January the long are planted , if decayed ,
as report says room at the Custom House gave way , to be the case , could then ...
Page 420
Now , Billy , as I up with white savoys , that the bride will be a thousand years in
the world gave a sneeze which made every one at to - morrow , I think it is full
time for me table start , but not a soul said , “ God to get married . ' bless us .
Now , Billy , as I up with white savoys , that the bride will be a thousand years in
the world gave a sneeze which made every one at to - morrow , I think it is full
time for me table start , but not a soul said , “ God to get married . ' bless us .
Page 439
It is the ring which Luther gave guised displeasure why she had loitered his
Catharine on their wedding day . there , instead of going on before to See , on the
inside are the initials ; there order the supper as he desired her , she the date ,
the ...
It is the ring which Luther gave guised displeasure why she had loitered his
Catharine on their wedding day . there , instead of going on before to See , on the
inside are the initials ; there order the supper as he desired her , she the date ,
the ...
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Page 92 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 391 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality ; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Page 180 - I have traversed the seat of war in the Peninsula, I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces of Turkey, but never under the most despotic of infidel governments did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the very heart of a Christian country.
Page 179 - Now though in a free country it were to be wished that our military should never be too formidable, at least to ourselves, I cannot see the policy of placing them in situations where they can only be made ridiculous. As the sword is the worst argument that can be used, so should it be the last. In this instance it has been the first ; but providentially as yet only in the scabbard. The present measure will, indeed, pluck it from the sheath ; yet had proper meetings been held in the earlier stages...
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Page 181 - But suppose it passed; suppose one of these men, as I have seen them, - meagre with famine, sullen with despair, careless of a life which your Lordships are perhaps about to value at something less than the price of a stockingframe...
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Page 235 - The ship was every thing we could wish ; and having closed my charge here much to my satisfaction, it was one of the happiest days of my life. We were, perhaps, too happy ; for in the evening came a sad reverse. Sophia had just gone to bed, and I had thrown off half my clothes, when a cry of fire, fire! roused us from our calm content, and in five minutes the whole ship was in flames! I ran to examine whence the flames principally issued, and found that the fire had its origin immediately under our...
Page 180 - Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labour in your fields and serve in your houses - that man your navy, and recruit your army - that have enabled you to defy all the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair! You may call the people a mob; but do...
Page 179 - When we are told that these men are leagued together not only for the destruction of their own comfort, but of their very means of subsistence, can we forget that it is the bitter policy, the destructive warfare of the last eighteen years, which has destroyed their comfort, your comfort, all men's comfort ? that policy, which, originating with "great statesmen now no more...