The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and ArtLeavitt, Trow, & Company, 1904 |
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... Gladstone , on the other hand , was often at his best when most unprepared . He was often nervous ( he told a friend ) when opening a de- bate , never in reply . His playful im- provisations 10 Mr. Morley's Life of Gladstone .
... Gladstone , on the other hand , was often at his best when most unprepared . He was often nervous ( he told a friend ) when opening a de- bate , never in reply . His playful im- provisations 10 Mr. Morley's Life of Gladstone .
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... hand , that Mr. Gladstone made one great mistake in his treatment of American affairs - a mistake seldom censured , however , by those who were hardest on his foreign policy in general -when he declared at Newcastle in 1862 that ...
... hand , that Mr. Gladstone made one great mistake in his treatment of American affairs - a mistake seldom censured , however , by those who were hardest on his foreign policy in general -when he declared at Newcastle in 1862 that ...
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... hand on his breast . " All shall be ready , David , " she an- swered . " Trust me , David . " He drove off , and she watched him lash the horses down the hill and force them at the drift - he , the man who loved horses and knew them as ...
... hand on his breast . " All shall be ready , David , " she an- swered . " Trust me , David . " He drove off , and she watched him lash the horses down the hill and force them at the drift - he , the man who loved horses and knew them as ...
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... hand , but he never looked down , and the father and the child remained there throughout the languid afternoon . Evening cool was growing up when Trikkie opened his eyes . Chris- tina was wetting towels for bandages , and her back was ...
... hand , but he never looked down , and the father and the child remained there throughout the languid afternoon . Evening cool was growing up when Trikkie opened his eyes . Chris- tina was wetting towels for bandages , and her back was ...
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... hand to hand , afar off they mas- tered him . Christina , too , dwelt on it at seasons ; but , by some process of her woman's mind , it was less dreadful to her than to David : she , too , could dream at times . One day she was at work ...
... hand to hand , afar off they mas- tered him . Christina , too , dwelt on it at seasons ; but , by some process of her woman's mind , it was less dreadful to her than to David : she , too , could dream at times . One day she was at work ...
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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.