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... called upon in behalf of rational nature , which I represent , to declare to you my opinion , that , if the earth is yours , so also is it mine My genius leads me to build a different manner of life from any of yours . " This , says ...
... called upon in behalf of rational nature , which I represent , to declare to you my opinion , that , if the earth is yours , so also is it mine My genius leads me to build a different manner of life from any of yours . " This , says ...
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... called by no milder name - has been reduced to a complete system . Each official reserves to himself a large sum from the amount wrung from the inhabitants , so that while the revenue of the island , from the various sources of taxation ...
... called by no milder name - has been reduced to a complete system . Each official reserves to himself a large sum from the amount wrung from the inhabitants , so that while the revenue of the island , from the various sources of taxation ...
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... called them , rushes forth to seize it , and so long as they may do this , they will not spend money , not much of it certainly , -in any regular merchandise . Who will buy domestic goods when he can import foreign goods without price ...
... called them , rushes forth to seize it , and so long as they may do this , they will not spend money , not much of it certainly , -in any regular merchandise . Who will buy domestic goods when he can import foreign goods without price ...
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... called upon Mr. L. and told him he wished to go South , but had not the means to pay his passage ; upon hearing this Mr. L. loaned him the sum which he required . The adventurer departed on his way , and a few years afterwards Mr. L ...
... called upon Mr. L. and told him he wished to go South , but had not the means to pay his passage ; upon hearing this Mr. L. loaned him the sum which he required . The adventurer departed on his way , and a few years afterwards Mr. L ...
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... called the Almanac of the Empire , and relates all the great things that the Emperor did during the days of his power . Another is the Almanac of Napoleon , and tells what the same glorious individual did all the rest of his days , how ...
... called the Almanac of the Empire , and relates all the great things that the Emperor did during the days of his power . Another is the Almanac of Napoleon , and tells what the same glorious individual did all the rest of his days , how ...
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Page 277 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
Page 218 - The spur that the clear spirit doth raise, To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
Page 17 - THE WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS A MIST was driving down the British Channel, The day was just begun, And through the window-panes, on floor and panel, Streamed the red autumn sun. It glanced on flowing flag and rippling pennon, And the white sails of ships ; And, from the frowning rampart, the black cannon Hailed it with feverish lips.
Page 11 - These islands, from their local position are natural appendages to the North American continent, and one of them (Cuba) almost in sight of our shores, from a multitude of considerations, has become an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union.
Page 251 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, my name shall be great among the gentiles, and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 11 - ... there are laws of political as well as of physical gravitation ; and if an apple, severed by the tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only towards the North American Union, which, by the same law of nature, cannot cast her off from its bosom.
Page 427 - ... upon it, and tearing it to pieces; if you should see this, you would see nothing more than what is every day practised and established among men.
Page 17 - Ports. Him shall no sunshine from the fields of azure, No drum-beat from the wall, No morning gun from the black fort's...
Page 277 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, of York, Mariner, who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by himself.
Page 163 - The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life •uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted...