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... ment of a gang of gipsies about night- fall , or , as Burns would say , gloaming . " The fire was just lighted , and the tent up . The place was a plain , flat , unpretending , dark , grass- green field . The hedge ran in a straight ...
... ment of a gang of gipsies about night- fall , or , as Burns would say , gloaming . " The fire was just lighted , and the tent up . The place was a plain , flat , unpretending , dark , grass- green field . The hedge ran in a straight ...
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... ment and the Executive that it would be ruinous to relieve them from the disabilities , they would have done what they did , to have taken the wisest method . If this ought not to be charged upon insincerity or weak- ness of intellect ...
... ment and the Executive that it would be ruinous to relieve them from the disabilities , they would have done what they did , to have taken the wisest method . If this ought not to be charged upon insincerity or weak- ness of intellect ...
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... ment of the Catholic priesthood ; -it was to have no power whatever to re- move any of its members for miscon- duct , or to withhold their stipend . It was merely to have the power to pay certain salaries to certain individuals whom the ...
... ment of the Catholic priesthood ; -it was to have no power whatever to re- move any of its members for miscon- duct , or to withhold their stipend . It was merely to have the power to pay certain salaries to certain individuals whom the ...
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... ment on the base and dastardly strokes which have been aimed at him from other quarters than Catholic meetings and newspaper offices . The country is acquainted with his character , and it is equally well acquainted with the character ...
... ment on the base and dastardly strokes which have been aimed at him from other quarters than Catholic meetings and newspaper offices . The country is acquainted with his character , and it is equally well acquainted with the character ...
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... ment . Things are only thought to be true , in proportion as they are para- doxical in their appearance . It is first assumed that all men are alike , and that all nations are in similar circum- stances , and have similar and common ...
... ment . Things are only thought to be true , in proportion as they are para- doxical in their appearance . It is first assumed that all men are alike , and that all nations are in similar circum- stances , and have similar and common ...
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Page 131 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Page 174 - As he would have taken a ball in his breast,' replied Lord George. 'For he opened his arms, exclaiming wildly, as he paced up and down the apartment during a few minutes: "O God! it is all over!
Page 479 - Where now thy might, which all those kings subdued ? No martial myriads muster in thy gate ; No suppliant nations in thy temple wait : No...
Page 551 - Our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his Church, to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences : and by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Page 541 - Long, as to him who works for debt, the day, Long as the night to her whose love's away, Long as the year's dull circle seems to run, When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one: So slow th...
Page 359 - Little he deem'd when with his Indian band He through the wilds set forth upon his way, A Poet then unborn, and in a land Which had proscribed his order, should one day Take up from thence his moralizing lay, And shape a song that, with no fiction drest, Should to his worth its grateful tribute pay, And sinking deep in many an English breast, Foster that faith divine that keeps the heart at rest.
Page 221 - MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ., FRS Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. and James II.; comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev.
Page 479 - While suns unblest their angry lustre fling, And wayworn pilgrims seek the scanty spring ? Where now thy pomp which kings with envy...
Page 471 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep, who can.
Page 547 - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.