The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, Volume 8John Clark Ridpath Globe publishing Company, 1898 - Literature |
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... words were ever sung with tears and prayers ; such pain meant alertness and eager life , for which one now looks in vain . These people would surely never rouse them- selves to contradict the man who asserted , with grim disdain of all ...
... words were ever sung with tears and prayers ; such pain meant alertness and eager life , for which one now looks in vain . These people would surely never rouse them- selves to contradict the man who asserted , with grim disdain of all ...
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... word , they did what my father did before them . As for me , I watched them , stupefied , fascinated , dazzled , blind , drunk with delight , and almost crazy with a tor- rent of memories that seemed to rain on me like lava as I watched ...
... word , they did what my father did before them . As for me , I watched them , stupefied , fascinated , dazzled , blind , drunk with delight , and almost crazy with a tor- rent of memories that seemed to rain on me like lava as I watched ...
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... word , be the merits of my administration ever so perfect , but rise up this instant and condemn me . If , on the con- trary , you know and believe that I am far better than him , and sprung from better men ; that I and mine are in no ...
... word , be the merits of my administration ever so perfect , but rise up this instant and condemn me . If , on the con- trary , you know and believe that I am far better than him , and sprung from better men ; that I and mine are in no ...
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... words alone ? For what other weapons had I ? Certainly not the lives of men , nor the fortunes of warriors , nor the military operations of which you are so blundering as to demand an account at my hands . But whatever a minister can be ...
... words alone ? For what other weapons had I ? Certainly not the lives of men , nor the fortunes of warriors , nor the military operations of which you are so blundering as to demand an account at my hands . But whatever a minister can be ...
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... words about his father and mother . All at once he threw up his arms and exclaimed , as if in sur- prised recognition , " Sister ! Sister ! Sister ! " That sister was the one best - loved of all , who had died seventy years before at ...
... words about his father and mother . All at once he threw up his arms and exclaimed , as if in sur- prised recognition , " Sister ! Sister ! Sister ! " That sister was the one best - loved of all , who had died seventy years before at ...
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