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... tell us what we are ; and with these gentlemen we shall associate several eminent artists , native as well as foreign , who will touch up the picture , and put a high light or a dark shadow where wanted . John Bull , we perceive then ...
... tell us what we are ; and with these gentlemen we shall associate several eminent artists , native as well as foreign , who will touch up the picture , and put a high light or a dark shadow where wanted . John Bull , we perceive then ...
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... telling that their antiquity extends beyond the Flood . If another said that Adam was born in Ireland , an Irishman would back it up . This pretension to antiquity is ridiculous , but they have another more so . They are not satisfied ...
... telling that their antiquity extends beyond the Flood . If another said that Adam was born in Ireland , an Irishman would back it up . This pretension to antiquity is ridiculous , but they have another more so . They are not satisfied ...
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... tell what the end of it will be . It seems that our restless industry and hurry have induced a not unnatural indolence , and that people are everywhere expecting to become the overseers , the well - paid overseers to a set of machines ...
... tell what the end of it will be . It seems that our restless industry and hurry have induced a not unnatural indolence , and that people are everywhere expecting to become the overseers , the well - paid overseers to a set of machines ...
Сторінка 101
... tell you why Mrs. Jones's cow died , and why Tom Blank went away to sea . Of course both of them were " judgments ; " and so we dare to mete out Providence , to measure the thunder , and to notify the vengeance ; and , like Job's ...
... tell you why Mrs. Jones's cow died , and why Tom Blank went away to sea . Of course both of them were " judgments ; " and so we dare to mete out Providence , to measure the thunder , and to notify the vengeance ; and , like Job's ...
Сторінка 102
... tell us , perhaps the least we say about these matters the better . So far from the rain being withheld from Italy as a punishment , we are told that the rain falls upon the just and the unjust equally . So far from believing that the ...
... tell us , perhaps the least we say about these matters the better . So far from the rain being withheld from Italy as a punishment , we are told that the rain falls upon the just and the unjust equally . So far from believing that the ...
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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.