About in the world, essays, by the author of 'The gentle life'. |
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... John Bull : then it takes to be a revolutionary , king - slaying people ; then a conquering , overrunning people . What will it take to next ? It is now quiet , and thinks more of speculation , railways , and the state of the Bourse ...
... John Bull : then it takes to be a revolutionary , king - slaying people ; then a conquering , overrunning people . What will it take to next ? It is now quiet , and thinks more of speculation , railways , and the state of the Bourse ...
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... John Bull . In his papers , contributed to the Revue des Deux Mondes , and since published under the title of The English at Home , our readers will find a very ac- curate description of our national character . We may at once start by ...
... John Bull . In his papers , contributed to the Revue des Deux Mondes , and since published under the title of The English at Home , our readers will find a very ac- curate description of our national character . We may at once start by ...
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... John Arbuthnot , * the friend of Swift and Pope , to give to the English nation the name of John Bull ( in a pamphlet published in 1712 ) , a name it has ever since retained . We have thus been John Bulls only 150 years ; but the fond ...
... John Arbuthnot , * the friend of Swift and Pope , to give to the English nation the name of John Bull ( in a pamphlet published in 1712 ) , a name it has ever since retained . We have thus been John Bulls only 150 years ; but the fond ...
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... John Bull , when , in defending William III . , he wished to put down the stupid political cry of the day , " A True ... John Bull ? What then is this John Bull , who has , for the last eight hundred years , existed and held his own in a ...
... John Bull , when , in defending William III . , he wished to put down the stupid political cry of the day , " A True ... John Bull ? What then is this John Bull , who has , for the last eight hundred years , existed and held his own in a ...
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... John Bull , we perceive then , is not of pure blood . He brags a bit about it , and talks of high descent ; but his blood , if compared to that of the Jews , Hindoos , Japanese , or Chinese , is , as regards antiquity , puddle blood . John ...
... John Bull , we perceive then , is not of pure blood . He brags a bit about it , and talks of high descent ; but his blood , if compared to that of the Jews , Hindoos , Japanese , or Chinese , is , as regards antiquity , puddle blood . John ...
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Сторінка 299 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Сторінка 240 - Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Сторінка 5 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon!
Сторінка 95 - Happy the man, who sees a God employed In all the good and ill, that chequer life! Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme.
Сторінка 208 - Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie; Peace in her vineyard - yes!
Сторінка 227 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Сторінка 252 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Сторінка 2 - Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, The soul that rises with us our life's star has had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar...
Сторінка 309 - Choice Editions of Choice Books. New Editions. Illustrated by CW Cope, RA, T. Creswick, RA. Edward Duncan, Birket Foster, JC Horsley, ARA. George Hicks. R. Redgrave, RA, C.
Сторінка 268 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.