The Twentieth Century, Volume 21Nineteenth Century and After, 1887 |
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... matter of course , they are no longer barred from feeding and sustaining domestic affection by prohibitory rates of postage , sternly imposed upon the masses , while the peers and other privileged classes were exempt through franking ...
... matter of course , they are no longer barred from feeding and sustaining domestic affection by prohibitory rates of postage , sternly imposed upon the masses , while the peers and other privileged classes were exempt through franking ...
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... matter for thankfulness , acknowledgment , and hope . The discord between the people and the law is now at an end , and our institutions are again ' broad - based ' upon national conviction and affection . I turn to another great ...
... matter for thankfulness , acknowledgment , and hope . The discord between the people and the law is now at an end , and our institutions are again ' broad - based ' upon national conviction and affection . I turn to another great ...
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... it . Let us not , however , overstate the matter . It is an item in the account , but an item only . There is an ascensus Averni for the nation , if it will face the hill . The 1887 15 ' LOCKSLEY HALL ' AND THE JUBILEE .
... it . Let us not , however , overstate the matter . It is an item in the account , but an item only . There is an ascensus Averni for the nation , if it will face the hill . The 1887 15 ' LOCKSLEY HALL ' AND THE JUBILEE .
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... matter of violent physical excitements , the nation attaches not less but more value to corporal education , and for the schoolboy and the man alike athletics are becoming an ordinary incident of life . Under the influence of better ...
... matter of violent physical excitements , the nation attaches not less but more value to corporal education , and for the schoolboy and the man alike athletics are becoming an ordinary incident of life . Under the influence of better ...
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... matter seems to be that upon the whole , and in a degree , we who lived fifty , sixty , seventy years back , and are ... matters of practice , at sight of evils formerly regarded with indifference or even connivance , it now not only ...
... matter seems to be that upon the whole , and in a degree , we who lived fifty , sixty , seventy years back , and are ... matters of practice , at sight of evils formerly regarded with indifference or even connivance , it now not only ...
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Page 274 - The eager spirit has darted from my hold, And, with the intemperate energy of love, Flies to the dear feet of Emmanuel; But, ere it reach them, the keen sanctity, Which with its effluence, like a glory, clothes And circles round the Crucified, has seized, And scorch'd, and shrivell'd it; and now it lies Passive and still before the awful Throne.
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