Essays and SelectionsPickering, 1837 - Počet stran: 356 |
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... king or a houseless and homeless liberal , all , all were welcome , free , and unquestioned , except how far they could be served . A few years since the mother of an Italian boy sent her child to Eng- land to seek his fortune . She saw ...
... king or a houseless and homeless liberal , all , all were welcome , free , and unquestioned , except how far they could be served . A few years since the mother of an Italian boy sent her child to Eng- land to seek his fortune . She saw ...
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... kings of the earth in thraldom ? — We have abolished nunneries and monasteries . The record of monastic institutions exist only in their mouldering ruins , monuments of the power of knowledge . The inquisition is no more . The power of ...
... kings of the earth in thraldom ? — We have abolished nunneries and monasteries . The record of monastic institutions exist only in their mouldering ruins , monuments of the power of knowledge . The inquisition is no more . The power of ...
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... But the Commodore said , ' he knew a jackdaw as well as ' ere a man in the three king- doms ; and if there were jackdaws there were ghosts too . " through Macedonia and Achaia , to go to Jeru- salem 51 From love of money,
... But the Commodore said , ' he knew a jackdaw as well as ' ere a man in the three king- doms ; and if there were jackdaws there were ghosts too . " through Macedonia and Achaia , to go to Jeru- salem 51 From love of money,
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... King's Cross , who said , when he saw the building by which a very broad road was rendered less dangerous to the passengers , " We used to have an accident almost every day , but now we shall not have a single fracture , either simple ...
... King's Cross , who said , when he saw the building by which a very broad road was rendered less dangerous to the passengers , " We used to have an accident almost every day , but now we shall not have a single fracture , either simple ...
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... aspiring ; " and he was no sooner appointed attorney - general , than he dedi- cated to the king his proposals for compiling and amending the laws of England . " Your Majesty , 83 He uses vantage ground to diffuse good,
... aspiring ; " and he was no sooner appointed attorney - general , than he dedi- cated to the king his proposals for compiling and amending the laws of England . " Your Majesty , 83 He uses vantage ground to diffuse good,
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Strana 12 - Of law, there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care ; and the greatest, as not exempted from her power.
Strana 82 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Strana 52 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Strana 195 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Strana 259 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Strana 268 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Strana 114 - Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause luve was true. " Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird That sings beside thy mate ; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate. " Aft hae I rov'd by bonie Doon, To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love, And sae did I o
Strana 185 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Strana 316 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
Strana 11 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial...