Littell's Living Age, Volume 160Living Age Company Incorporated, 1884 |
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... followed , a horrified servant came in with the appalling intelligence that the Lynn gentlemen had shot all Lady Cholmonde- ley's tame partridges ! Lord Coleraine ( " Blue Hanger " ) was another courtier of the prince's . He was very ...
... followed , a horrified servant came in with the appalling intelligence that the Lynn gentlemen had shot all Lady Cholmonde- ley's tame partridges ! Lord Coleraine ( " Blue Hanger " ) was another courtier of the prince's . He was very ...
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... followed the lead given her , and indeed eclipsed her mother from first to last . " " Fiddlesticks ! Eclipsed her mother ! Lotta ! " cried Teddy , with undisguised contempt . " Lotta ! " he said again , and laughed . " Oh , Teddy ...
... followed the lead given her , and indeed eclipsed her mother from first to last . " " Fiddlesticks ! Eclipsed her mother ! Lotta ! " cried Teddy , with undisguised contempt . " Lotta ! " he said again , and laughed . " Oh , Teddy ...
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... followed their example . So little of the Overtons went such a long way ; they were so rich in resources in themselves , so replete with material for the wits of others to work upon ; one was so unlike the other , and all were so un ...
... followed their example . So little of the Overtons went such a long way ; they were so rich in resources in themselves , so replete with material for the wits of others to work upon ; one was so unlike the other , and all were so un ...
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... followed , would be beset on every side by fair ones anxious for his attention , for attention which he seemed willing and able to distribute to each and all impartially , and he would wonder how Teddy did it . No such brilliant ...
... followed , would be beset on every side by fair ones anxious for his attention , for attention which he seemed willing and able to distribute to each and all impartially , and he would wonder how Teddy did it . No such brilliant ...
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... followed no less madly by the Connaught Rangers , and with an impetuosity that swept all before them . Two of the four following symbolic warrior names sound oddly enough , but there can be no doubt as to their prowess : - ― Patsey and ...
... followed no less madly by the Connaught Rangers , and with an impetuosity that swept all before them . Two of the four following symbolic warrior names sound oddly enough , but there can be no doubt as to their prowess : - ― Patsey and ...
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Page 495 - Hereby know ye the Spirit of God; Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God ; and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come, and even now already is it in the world.
Page 66 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, 1 than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page 305 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Page 377 - Ah ! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 246 - Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God ; he riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments, and took a towel, and girded himself. After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Page 65 - I saw that, though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumstances, and what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of Free Will is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character ; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.
Page 377 - And slow and sure comes up the golden year. When wealth no more shall rest in mounded heaps, But smit with freer light shall slowly melt In many streams to fatten lower lands, And light shall spread, and man be liker man Thro' all the season of the golden year.
Page 130 - Itaque majores aliud jus gentium, aliud jus civile esse voluerunt. Quod civile, non idem continuo gentium ; quod autem gentium, idem civile esse debet.
Page 417 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 9 - Known to be immensely rich, destitute of issue, and unmarried, he formed a mark at which every necessitous man or woman throughout the metropolis directed their aim. It is a fact that, when he lay dying in December 1810, his bed was covered with billets and letters to the number of at least seventy, mostly, indeed, addressed to him by females of every description, and of every rank, from Duchesses down to ladies of the easiest virtue. Unable from his extenuated state to open or to peruse them, he...