The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and ArtLeavitt, Trow, & Company, 1904 |
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... given them a thousand pounds for it . No very wonderful virtue , you may say . But how many of your House of Commons would believe it ? " ( iii , 320 ) . " No reformer " ( says Mr. Morley ) " is fit for his task who suffers him- self to ...
... given them a thousand pounds for it . No very wonderful virtue , you may say . But how many of your House of Commons would believe it ? " ( iii , 320 ) . " No reformer " ( says Mr. Morley ) " is fit for his task who suffers him- self to ...
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... given a thought . He was accidentally right in resisting Palmerston's craze for forti- fications , because that was founded on a radically vicious theory of defence . But he resisted it on abstract and quite irrelevant grounds of ...
... given a thought . He was accidentally right in resisting Palmerston's craze for forti- fications , because that was founded on a radically vicious theory of defence . But he resisted it on abstract and quite irrelevant grounds of ...
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... given to these declarations in his address to the electors of Midlo- thian and in his Midlothian speeches ; when I consider all these things , I feel that I have not , and that no one has , any right to complain of the declara- tion ...
... given to these declarations in his address to the electors of Midlo- thian and in his Midlothian speeches ; when I consider all these things , I feel that I have not , and that no one has , any right to complain of the declara- tion ...
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... given , and the aching traveller hoped next day that the parochial results were worthy of the toil and pains bestowed upon them . But ' twas ever thus . Years ago this thing had been foreshadowed . In those days the vicar was a South ...
... given , and the aching traveller hoped next day that the parochial results were worthy of the toil and pains bestowed upon them . But ' twas ever thus . Years ago this thing had been foreshadowed . In those days the vicar was a South ...
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... given by the correspondents of the English papers , and particularly by the very capable correspondents of the Times , is conclusive . Should things go on during the next few months as they have during the last three , large part of ...
... given by the correspondents of the English papers , and particularly by the very capable correspondents of the Times , is conclusive . Should things go on during the next few months as they have during the last three , large part of ...
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Page 336 - And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Page 336 - And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man: yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Page 335 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Page 734 - GOD bless the king, I mean the faith's defender; God bless — no harm in blessing — the pretender; But who pretender is, or who is king, God bless us all — that's quite another thing.
Page 429 - The government of New Granada guarantees to the government of the United States that, the right of way or transit across the Isthmus of Panama, upon any modes of communication that now exist or that may be hereafter constructed, shall be open and free to the government and citizens of the United States...
Page 48 - Stout Skippon hath a wound ; the centre hath given ground : Hark ! hark ! — What means the trampling of horsemen on our rear ? Whose banner do I see, boys ? Tis he, thank God, 'tis he, boys. Bear up another minute : brave Oliver is here.
Page 172 - with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!' 'Yes, we have fallen off deplorably,
Page 251 - ... rights ; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity, — as long as these endure so long the Duke of Bedford is safe, and we are all safe together ; the high from the blights of envy and the spoliation of rapacity ; the low from the iron hand of oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt. Amen ! and so be it : and so it will be, Dum domus Aeneae Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet ; imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.
Page 177 - Call the death by any name your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only - spontaneous combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.
Page 47 - Provided always, that every man or woman, of what estate or condition that he be, shall be free to set their son or daughter to take learning at any manner school that pleaseth them within the Realm.