Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, 1865 |
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... heard it said how wonderful it was how the lesson for the day always suited everybody's case , ' said Alice . " Arthur never would make any change for circumstances . He - he Isaid it was as if God could ever be wanting , " the faithful ...
... heard it said how wonderful it was how the lesson for the day always suited everybody's case , ' said Alice . " Arthur never would make any change for circumstances . He - he Isaid it was as if God could ever be wanting , " the faithful ...
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... heard what he said about papa ? I ought to write and tell him what has happened . Perhaps I ought to tell you from the beginning , " she continued , after composing herself a little . " We left home without his consent - indeed , he did ...
... heard what he said about papa ? I ought to write and tell him what has happened . Perhaps I ought to tell you from the beginning , " she continued , after composing herself a little . " We left home without his consent - indeed , he did ...
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... heard clever talk afar off , " in society , " and been awe- stricken by the sound of it , and she had heard Arthur and his friends uttering much fine - sounding language upon subjects not generally in her way , but she was utterly ...
... heard clever talk afar off , " in society , " and been awe- stricken by the sound of it , and she had heard Arthur and his friends uttering much fine - sounding language upon subjects not generally in her way , but she was utterly ...
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... heard him out with anxious attention . When he had ended , there was a pause , during which Colin , who had not hitherto been doubtful , began himself to feel anxious ; and then Alice once more gave a wistful , inquiring look at his ...
... heard him out with anxious attention . When he had ended , there was a pause , during which Colin , who had not hitherto been doubtful , began himself to feel anxious ; and then Alice once more gave a wistful , inquiring look at his ...
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... heard once , - " Virgilium vidi tantum , " - but the music of whose full and flowing eloquence as heard on that occasion has never faded from my ears.1 There were the two Hallams , the elder of whom will be ever remembered by that great ...
... heard once , - " Virgilium vidi tantum , " - but the music of whose full and flowing eloquence as heard on that occasion has never faded from my ears.1 There were the two Hallams , the elder of whom will be ever remembered by that great ...
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Page 108 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 23 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me : — ' Pipe a song about a lamb : ' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again : ' So I piped ; he wept to hear.
Page 277 - By general law, life and limb must be protected ; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation.
Page 277 - I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government — that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution...
Page 21 - What," it will be questioned, " when the sun rises do you not see a round disk of fire something like a guinea ? Oh ! no ! no ! I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying — ' Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty...
Page 15 - In truth, sir, he was the delight and ornament of this house, and the charm of every private society which he honoured with his presence. Perhaps there never arose in this country, nor in any country, a man of a more pointed. and finished wit ; and (where his passions were not concerned) of a more refined, exquisite, and penetrating judgment.
Page 467 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 276 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they...
Page 23 - He led me through his gardens fair, Where all his golden pleasures grow. With sweet May dews my wings were wet. And Phoebus fir'd my vocal rage; He caught me in his silken net, And shut me in his golden cage. He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.
Page 277 - It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power.