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... wish- ing my own sensibilities were greater than they are . I am not going to apply critical canons , nor yet to lay down new ones ; my great object is to make per- sons who have never thought upon the subject aware that there are laws ...
... wish- ing my own sensibilities were greater than they are . I am not going to apply critical canons , nor yet to lay down new ones ; my great object is to make per- sons who have never thought upon the subject aware that there are laws ...
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... wish , strangely enough , but with a true instinct , that her very objectionable nephew , Arthur , was there , or even old Miss Raylock , to confront this rascal . But she was all alone , and wept . So Kriegsthurm went on . " The time ...
... wish , strangely enough , but with a true instinct , that her very objectionable nephew , Arthur , was there , or even old Miss Raylock , to confront this rascal . But she was all alone , and wept . So Kriegsthurm went on . " The time ...
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... wishes most fully . And I And I did so . " There was a certain terrible truth in the man's defence of himself . There was a large liberal grandeur about his rascality which made him , without all question , the greatest rascal in Europe ...
... wishes most fully . And I And I did so . " There was a certain terrible truth in the man's defence of himself . There was a large liberal grandeur about his rascality which made him , without all question , the greatest rascal in Europe ...
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... wish me to murder him for you ? " " I wish to heaven you would . It is so terribly unlucky , you're being a gentleman and a man of honour . " " Not unlucky for you , is it ? " said Boginsky . " I am not sure of that , " said Kriegs ...
... wish me to murder him for you ? " " I wish to heaven you would . It is so terribly unlucky , you're being a gentleman and a man of honour . " " Not unlucky for you , is it ? " said Boginsky . " I am not sure of that , " said Kriegs ...
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... wish ; and in a very short time they grew quite as de- monstrative of their emotions as any German of them all . They were a great success among those Rhine people . The handsome , genial , vivacious James , with his really admirable ...
... wish ; and in a very short time they grew quite as de- monstrative of their emotions as any German of them all . They were a great success among those Rhine people . The handsome , genial , vivacious James , with his really admirable ...
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Page 231 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 225 - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Page 388 - There St John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 207 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 450 - For a thousand years in thy sight, are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up ; in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
Page 80 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 79 - For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 152 - The first line that Sir Patrick read, A loud laugh laughed he : The next line that Sir Patrick read, The tear blinded his e'e. 'O wha is this has done this deed, This ill deed done to me ; To send me out this time o' the year, To sail upon the sea?
Page 272 - ... a study of perfection. It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for pure knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.
Page 321 - Liberty" (to Sons of the Devil in overwhelming majority, as would appear) ; count of Heads the God-appointed way in this Universe, all other ways Devil-appointed; in one brief word, which includes whatever of palpable incredibility and delirious absurdity, universally believed, can be uttered or imagined on these points,