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... admit the justice of these im- we humbly trust that our Southern readers will now n that the offence has been in some degree expiated , - late forbearance and our present proceeding : For ave done violence to our strongest propensities ...
... admit the justice of these im- we humbly trust that our Southern readers will now n that the offence has been in some degree expiated , - late forbearance and our present proceeding : For ave done violence to our strongest propensities ...
Strana 10
... admit the passage of the head , from which it may be inferred , that it was put on by slipping it over the head and shoulders , in the manner of a modern shirt , or ancient hauberk . Sandals , bound with thongs made of boars ' hide ...
... admit the passage of the head , from which it may be inferred , that it was put on by slipping it over the head and shoulders , in the manner of a modern shirt , or ancient hauberk . Sandals , bound with thongs made of boars ' hide ...
Strana 18
... admit two horsemen riding a- breast . At each of these portals were stationed two heralds , attend- ed by six trumpets , as many pursuivants , and a strong body of men- at - arms for maintaining order , and ascertaining the quality of ...
... admit two horsemen riding a- breast . At each of these portals were stationed two heralds , attend- ed by six trumpets , as many pursuivants , and a strong body of men- at - arms for maintaining order , and ascertaining the quality of ...
Strana 67
... admit of our making a great effort of taxation to render the Sinking Fund equal to the liquidation of a very considerable por- tion of the debt . Such an effort should never be lost sight of , and ought most certainly to be made ...
... admit of our making a great effort of taxation to render the Sinking Fund equal to the liquidation of a very considerable por- tion of the debt . Such an effort should never be lost sight of , and ought most certainly to be made ...
Strana 69
... admits of tempo- rizing or half measures . All the old rules of finance have been set aside by the innovations of Mr Pitt , which gave to Govern- ment the unlimited command of the public purse . The effect of his innovations must now be ...
... admits of tempo- rizing or half measures . All the old rules of finance have been set aside by the innovations of Mr Pitt , which gave to Govern- ment the unlimited command of the public purse . The effect of his innovations must now be ...
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Strana 76 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Strana 139 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Strana 76 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Strana 10 - One part of his dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast round his neck, so loose as to form no impediment to his breathing, yet so tight as to be incapable of being removed, excepting by the use of the file. On this singular gorget was engraved in Saxon characters, an inscription of the following purport:—" Gurth, the son of Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood.
Strana 77 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Strana 20 - When the two champions stood opposed to each other at the two extremities of the lists, the public expectation was strained to the highest pitch. Few augured the possibility that the encounter could terminate well for the Disinherited Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt.
Strana 38 - Heaven strike with the cause of the oppressed and of the captive!" She then uttered a loud shriek, and exclaimed, "He is down! - he is down!" "Who is down?" cried Ivanhoe; "for our dear Lady's sake, tell me which has fallen?" "The Black Knight/' answered Rebecca, faintly; then instantly again shouted with joyful eagerness - "But no - but no!
Strana 38 - I see him now ; he leads a body of men close under the outer barrier of the barbican. They pull down the piles and palisades ; they hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back ! — Front-de-Boeuf heads the defenders ; — I see his gigantic form above the press.
Strana 343 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Strana 9 - ... in some places they were intermingled with beeches hollies and copsewood of various descriptions so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun in others they receded from each other forming those long sweeping vistas in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude...