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... rest- less day , 7 7 Ex | piring , | | lays the warbling | world a | sleep , 7 || Sweetest of birds , 7 | | sweet 7 | Philo | mela , || charm 7 | 7 The listening | shades , 7 | 7 and | teach the | night 7 | his 7 | praise . 7 | | | Ye 7 ...
... rest- less day , 7 7 Ex | piring , | | lays the warbling | world a | sleep , 7 || Sweetest of birds , 7 | | sweet 7 | Philo | mela , || charm 7 | 7 The listening | shades , 7 | 7 and | teach the | night 7 | his 7 | praise . 7 | | | Ye 7 ...
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... rest , For Brutus is an honourable man , So are they all , all honourable men , Come I to speak at Cæsar's funeral . He was my friend , faithful and just to me : N But Brutus says he was ambitious ; And Brutus is EXERCISES . 137 ...
... rest , For Brutus is an honourable man , So are they all , all honourable men , Come I to speak at Cæsar's funeral . He was my friend , faithful and just to me : N But Brutus says he was ambitious ; And Brutus is EXERCISES . 137 ...
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... rest of mankind , enemies in war ; in peace , friends . We , therefore , the Representatives of the United States of America , in General Congress assembled , appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world , for the rectitude of our ...
... rest of mankind , enemies in war ; in peace , friends . We , therefore , the Representatives of the United States of America , in General Congress assembled , appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world , for the rectitude of our ...
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... rest Their chins upon their clenched hands , and smiled ; And others hurried to and fro , and fed Their funeral piles with fuel , and look'd up With mad disquietude on the dull sky , The pall of a past world ; and then again With curses ...
... rest Their chins upon their clenched hands , and smiled ; And others hurried to and fro , and fed Their funeral piles with fuel , and look'd up With mad disquietude on the dull sky , The pall of a past world ; and then again With curses ...
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... rest assured it has in the natural connexion be- tween causes and effects , established a system of retri- butive justice , by which the crimes of nations are soon- er or later avenged by their own inevitable conse- quences 160 EXERCISES .
... rest assured it has in the natural connexion be- tween causes and effects , established a system of retri- butive justice , by which the crimes of nations are soon- er or later avenged by their own inevitable conse- quences 160 EXERCISES .
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Page 131 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 124 - Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, Sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Page 129 - I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 138 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him?
Page 130 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 152 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 255 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking : and when the people saw it, they removed. and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear : but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Page 139 - But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar; I found it in his closet; it is his will. Let but the commons hear this testament — Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins...
Page 130 - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy ; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried ' Help me, Cassius, or I sink...
Page 119 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.