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... perhaps less gifted , are imperishable - and they are sacred , far beyond the conception of vulgar souls . SHEPHERD . What do you mean by vulgar souls , sir ? NORTH . Not the souls of shepherds , James , but of Bagmen . Aneuch ...
... perhaps less gifted , are imperishable - and they are sacred , far beyond the conception of vulgar souls . SHEPHERD . What do you mean by vulgar souls , sir ? NORTH . Not the souls of shepherds , James , but of Bagmen . Aneuch ...
Page 54
... perhaps , also , some recollections of the 10th August , disordered the imaginations of the Swiss . Having attempted in vain to recall the Parisians to the armistice , they left the Louvre , and left it with precipitation and in ...
... perhaps , also , some recollections of the 10th August , disordered the imaginations of the Swiss . Having attempted in vain to recall the Parisians to the armistice , they left the Louvre , and left it with precipitation and in ...
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... Perhaps these instances of egregi- ous error might be sufficient to give the work at once its due place ; but we must notice one more passage , which fairly outdoes all its fellows . This refers to the taking of the Hotel de Ville , and ...
... Perhaps these instances of egregi- ous error might be sufficient to give the work at once its due place ; but we must notice one more passage , which fairly outdoes all its fellows . This refers to the taking of the Hotel de Ville , and ...
Page 60
... Perhaps their aid would have come too late , and he might still have succumbed ; but in either case , had he refrained till the first blow was struck by his enemy , he would have had right and justice on his side . Had he triumph- ed ...
... Perhaps their aid would have come too late , and he might still have succumbed ; but in either case , had he refrained till the first blow was struck by his enemy , he would have had right and justice on his side . Had he triumph- ed ...
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... perhaps , send a little treason or so at odd times through the post - office ; and as to scand . magn . , especially at those unhappy ( luckily rare ) periods when Whigs are in power , if all letters are like our own , the Attorney ...
... perhaps , send a little treason or so at odd times through the post - office ; and as to scand . magn . , especially at those unhappy ( luckily rare ) periods when Whigs are in power , if all letters are like our own , the Attorney ...
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Page 445 - And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren ; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit.
Page 279 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 292 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry.
Page 183 - If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve : and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
Page 279 - The hour of my departure's come; I hear the voice that calls me home: Now, O my God ! let trouble cease.
Page 291 - Thy most magnificent and mighty freak, The wonder of the North. No forest fell, When thou wouldst build ; no quarry sent its stores T' enrich thy walls : but thou didst hew the floods, And make thy marble of the glassy wave.
Page 283 - Smooth'd up with snow ; and what is land, unknown, What water, of the still unfrozen spring, In the loose marsh or solitary lake, Where the fresh fountain from the bottom boils.
Page 184 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever...
Page 30 - ... illegal violence, with whatever pretences it may be covered, and whatever object it may pursue, must inevitably end at last in the arbitrary and despotic government of a single person.
Page 302 - At the dead hour of night was heard the cry Of one in jeopardy. I rose, and ran To where the circling eddy of a pool Beneath the ford, us'd oft to bring within My reach whatever floating thing the stream Had caught.