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Page 95
... laughed . We always laughed at Reuben a sort of small master in the art of cockney chaff ; which chaff con- sisted in putting together a long string of incongruities in a smart jerky tone of voice . This , combined with con- summate ...
... laughed . We always laughed at Reuben a sort of small master in the art of cockney chaff ; which chaff con- sisted in putting together a long string of incongruities in a smart jerky tone of voice . This , combined with con- summate ...
Page 97
... laughed at Tupper and with Thackeray , and carried off their full share of honours in the university examinations . It could not be for their edification that such stuff as the follow- ing is put on paper : " United Victor Emmanuels v ...
... laughed at Tupper and with Thackeray , and carried off their full share of honours in the university examinations . It could not be for their edification that such stuff as the follow- ing is put on paper : " United Victor Emmanuels v ...
Page 101
... laughed and talked with a freedom and dignity which had quite a bracing effect on men accustomed to Ben- galee servility and effeminacy . In fact , the Ghorkas are a military aristocracy , like the Spartans of blue blood ; the other ...
... laughed and talked with a freedom and dignity which had quite a bracing effect on men accustomed to Ben- galee servility and effeminacy . In fact , the Ghorkas are a military aristocracy , like the Spartans of blue blood ; the other ...
Page 129
... laughed he ! " Say , if I barter it , Thou , canst thou take it ? Ill were a covenant Made but to break it . " Look you , this soul of mine Clings so about me , He is not born that can Drag it without me ! Trust me , so straitly the ...
... laughed he ! " Say , if I barter it , Thou , canst thou take it ? Ill were a covenant Made but to break it . " Look you , this soul of mine Clings so about me , He is not born that can Drag it without me ! Trust me , so straitly the ...
Page 150
... laughed half aloud as his natural enemy followed his father into the house . " He's feared to wet his feet , " said the lad , with a chuckle of mockery , holding forth his own , which to his conscious- ness were never dry . Any moralist ...
... laughed half aloud as his natural enemy followed his father into the house . " He's feared to wet his feet , " said the lad , with a chuckle of mockery , holding forth his own , which to his conscious- ness were never dry . Any moralist ...
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Page 263 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Page 239 - Still, thro' the rattle, parts of speech were rife : While he could stammer He settled Hoti's business— let it be ! — Properly based Oun — Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De, Dead from the waist down.
Page 467 - ... unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said book contained and prescribed, in these words, and no other : IV. " I, AB, do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained and prescribed in and by the book, intituled,
Page 520 - Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian ; and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.
Page 368 - Here let us sport, Boys, as we sit; Laughter and wit Flashing so free. Life is but short — When we are gone, Let them sing on Round the old tree.
Page 367 - For not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more Than to walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice.
Page 367 - We are puppets, Man in his pride, and Beauty fair in her flower ; Do we move ourselves, or are moved by an unseen hand at a game That pushes us off from the board, and others ever succeed ? Ah yet, we cannot be kind to each other here for an hour ; We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame ; However we brave it out, we men are a little breed.
Page 272 - I have given instructions to those officers, to whom it belongs, to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons who shall, within the cognizance of the courts of the United States, violate the law of nations, with respect to the powers at war, or any of them.
Page 355 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself ; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.
Page 143 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of Winter I mourn ; Kind Nature the embryo blossom will save.