Littell's Living Age, Volume 78Living Age Company Incorporated, 1863 - American periodicals |
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... least as great abundance as though it deals with names well known at the courts of law . Especially was this likely the bar , is good - humored enough as well as clever . It purports to be " The History of to be the case in a society ...
... least as great abundance as though it deals with names well known at the courts of law . Especially was this likely the bar , is good - humored enough as well as clever . It purports to be " The History of to be the case in a society ...
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... least have had that upon Hermann's scholarship , in the English dress which the professor gave it : - " The Germans in Greek Are sadly to seek ; Not five in five - score , But ninety - five more ; All , except Hermann- And Hermann's a ...
... least have had that upon Hermann's scholarship , in the English dress which the professor gave it : - " The Germans in Greek Are sadly to seek ; Not five in five - score , But ninety - five more ; All , except Hermann- And Hermann's a ...
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... least have found a place : - " The Paris cits , a patriotic band , Advance their cash on British freehold land ; But let the speculating rogues beware ; They've bought the skin - but who's to kill the bear ? " The times that followed ...
... least have found a place : - " The Paris cits , a patriotic band , Advance their cash on British freehold land ; But let the speculating rogues beware ; They've bought the skin - but who's to kill the bear ? " The times that followed ...
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... least a fourth of those who go would be much better at home . Even if the sovereign is not entitled actually to exclude them , the sovereign is not bound to facilitate their trying to blow themselves out to the size of the proper court ...
... least a fourth of those who go would be much better at home . Even if the sovereign is not entitled actually to exclude them , the sovereign is not bound to facilitate their trying to blow themselves out to the size of the proper court ...
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... least those re- sults which we can examine without lifting up the veil of our decorous social system practised with impunity by younger sons . Something of his former self still remains to him as long as only married women are in the ...
... least those re- sults which we can examine without lifting up the veil of our decorous social system practised with impunity by younger sons . Something of his former self still remains to him as long as only married women are in the ...
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Page 169 - Ecstasy ! My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have uttered : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Page 43 - The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring. Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing. Who would have thought my...
Page 159 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 513 - There St John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 168 - Doubt thou the stars are fire ; Doubt that the sun doth move ; Doubt truth to be a liar ; But never doubt I love.
Page 286 - I have been in the deep : in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren : in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 453 - This rambling propensity strengthened with my years. Books of voyages and travels became my passion, and in devouring their contents, I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the...
Page 457 - But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world : it is there her ambition strives for empire ; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure : she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.
Page 69 - If Thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O LORD, who may abide it?
Page v - tis heard, Not a mere party shout ; They gave their spirits out, Trusted the end to God, And on the gory sod Rolled in triumphant blood. Glad to strike one free blow. Whether for weal or woe ; Glad to breathe one free breath, Though on the lips of death ; Praying, — alas ! in vain ! — That they might fall again, So they could once more see That burst to liberty ! This was what " freedom