About in the world, essays, by the author of 'The gentle life'. |
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... head , said we had better look after our fortifications , we laughed him to scorn . Napoleon III . , that acute monarch , took his tone from the temper of the times , and called himself the " Napoleon of Peace , " which he proved by ...
... head , said we had better look after our fortifications , we laughed him to scorn . Napoleon III . , that acute monarch , took his tone from the temper of the times , and called himself the " Napoleon of Peace , " which he proved by ...
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... head , and wearing upon it a bow of ribbon , which may " eventuate , " as the Yankees would say , in the drum or muff head - dress of 1770. We cannot , dare not , say that women will remain sensible , and wear their own hair naturally ...
... head , and wearing upon it a bow of ribbon , which may " eventuate , " as the Yankees would say , in the drum or muff head - dress of 1770. We cannot , dare not , say that women will remain sensible , and wear their own hair naturally ...
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... head , as he wished it . So would John wish to be painted as was his Oliver . Draw him with his warts , and he sees you are not overpraising him ; for he is , like all well - bred ani- mals , thin - skinned , and knows where his weak ...
... head , as he wished it . So would John wish to be painted as was his Oliver . Draw him with his warts , and he sees you are not overpraising him ; for he is , like all well - bred ani- mals , thin - skinned , and knows where his weak ...
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... head , no harm could happen to him ; " nor can it , if he keep on the right side of the law , as many rascals know ... heads now in England , and please by beauty of the same character and expression , blending good nature , valour , and ...
... head , no harm could happen to him ; " nor can it , if he keep on the right side of the law , as many rascals know ... heads now in England , and please by beauty of the same character and expression , blending good nature , valour , and ...
Сторінка 39
... heads . his hands with delight , and , seizing a head by the hair and ears , which he recognised as that of an enemy , he tore off 66 Dermot clapped part of the nose and lips with his teeth . OUR NEIGHBOURS IN IRELAND . 39.
... heads . his hands with delight , and , seizing a head by the hair and ears , which he recognised as that of an enemy , he tore off 66 Dermot clapped part of the nose and lips with his teeth . OUR NEIGHBOURS IN IRELAND . 39.
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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.