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... perhaps few had done more than erect a new dial , or leave the interest of £ 5 to be distributed on New - Year's Day to twenty poor widows ; yet his talk would not be devoid of interest to such as " find a tale in every thing , " and ...
... perhaps few had done more than erect a new dial , or leave the interest of £ 5 to be distributed on New - Year's Day to twenty poor widows ; yet his talk would not be devoid of interest to such as " find a tale in every thing , " and ...
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... perhaps in the direct line of our argument , because the substituting a very exceptionable kind of Court biography for true national history is a mistake often practically made , and very mischievous ; not only be- cause it bestows the ...
... perhaps in the direct line of our argument , because the substituting a very exceptionable kind of Court biography for true national history is a mistake often practically made , and very mischievous ; not only be- cause it bestows the ...
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... Perhaps it was not thought prudent that any record of his sentiments on that occasion should survive . We may be certain that he never contem- plated a fruitless opposition to a measure which was the will of the people , and the ...
... Perhaps it was not thought prudent that any record of his sentiments on that occasion should survive . We may be certain that he never contem- plated a fruitless opposition to a measure which was the will of the people , and the ...
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... perhaps we may differ in our advice concerning the way of proceeding , yet we have the same good ends in general ; and by this unlucky falling out , we shall be provoked to a greater emulation of serving you . I must beg you to pardon ...
... perhaps we may differ in our advice concerning the way of proceeding , yet we have the same good ends in general ; and by this unlucky falling out , we shall be provoked to a greater emulation of serving you . I must beg you to pardon ...
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... perhaps sooner than he intended . He seems not to have taken the interference of Lord Bellasis in good part , for immediately after his return he writes thus : - GENTLEMEN , " Westminster , April 2 , 1663 . Being newly arrived in town ...
... perhaps sooner than he intended . He seems not to have taken the interference of Lord Bellasis in good part , for immediately after his return he writes thus : - GENTLEMEN , " Westminster , April 2 , 1663 . Being newly arrived in town ...
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Page 343 - me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing while I am with him. And when I am called from him I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else beside learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus
Page 102 - finally postponed till too late, for Kuster never lived to complete it Methinks the shade of the lexicographer might arise and say, with the Miltonic Satan:— " What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be?" Kuster engaged in an edition of
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Page 62 - his were not the deepest scar ; And Hampton shows what part He had of wiser art: When twining subtle fears with hope, He wove a net of such a scope, That Charles himself might chace To Carisbrook's narrow case; That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorne, While round the armed bands, Did clap their
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Page 469 - spell has power; * Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls, Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned eternity in icy halls, Of cold sublimity.
Page 272 - Even at this sight My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine It shall be stony. York not our old men spares, No more will I their babes: tears virginal . Shall be to me even as the dew to fire; And beauty that the tyrant
Page 62 - And plead the ancient rights in vain: But those do hold or break, As men are strong or weak. Nature, that hateth emptiness, Allows of penetration less; And therefore must make room Where greater spirits