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Page 49
... Lord Lorne's paper , written apparently for people who had asked his opinion as to the expediency of applying the principles of Canadian self - government to the case of Ireland . It would be about as useful to discuss the expediency of ...
... Lord Lorne's paper , written apparently for people who had asked his opinion as to the expediency of applying the principles of Canadian self - government to the case of Ireland . It would be about as useful to discuss the expediency of ...
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... Lord Chief Justice on this occasion indulged his American friends with a little playful satire , he was not in a position to act the mentor , and still less the critic . He was the guest of the American bar , and no Englishman in recent ...
... Lord Chief Justice on this occasion indulged his American friends with a little playful satire , he was not in a position to act the mentor , and still less the critic . He was the guest of the American bar , and no Englishman in recent ...
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... Lord Coleridge's desire to please went somewhat in excess of the requirements of the situation . His comparison of English and American beauty , which occasioned much comment in the States , cannot be considered just to his own country ...
... Lord Coleridge's desire to please went somewhat in excess of the requirements of the situation . His comparison of English and American beauty , which occasioned much comment in the States , cannot be considered just to his own country ...
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... Lord Lytton . Here are an autobiography , letters , chapters supplementary and illustrative , sketches , poems , projected histories , novels begun or half written- everything , in fact , that can divert and distract the reader in his ...
... Lord Lytton . Here are an autobiography , letters , chapters supplementary and illustrative , sketches , poems , projected histories , novels begun or half written- everything , in fact , that can divert and distract the reader in his ...
Page 100
... Lord South - Erpingham , a title which sounds very much as though Mr. Gladstone were to make one of his sup- porters " Lord Eaton Place South . " Providence , however , for the good of the aristocracy , refused to sanction such a ...
... Lord South - Erpingham , a title which sounds very much as though Mr. Gladstone were to make one of his sup- porters " Lord Eaton Place South . " Providence , however , for the good of the aristocracy , refused to sanction such a ...
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Page 811 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 592 - because we were so occupied in other matters, that we had no time to examine them how they agreed with the word of God." "What," said he, "surely you mistook the matter, you will refer yourselves wholly to us therein." "No, by the faith I bear to God...
Page 128 - Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, Thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.
Page 259 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 239 - Or say there's beauty with no soul at all (I never saw it - put the case the same - ) If you get simple beauty and nought else, You get about the best thing God invents, That's somewhat.
Page 55 - Of all the sarse thet I can call to mind, England doos make the most onpleasant kind : It 's you 're the sinner oilers, she 's the saint ; Wut 's good 's all English, all thet is n't ain't ; Wut profits her is oilers right an
Page 809 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 152 - If Batoum, Ardahan, Kars, or any of them, shall be retained by Russia, and if any attempt shall be made at any future time by Russia to take possession of any further territories of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan in Asia, as fixed by the definitive treaty of peace, Eugland engages to join his Imperial Majesty the Sultan in defending them by force of Arms.
Page 297 - Stra. 834. the court would not suffer it to be debated, whether to write against Christianity was punishable in the temporal courts at common law? Wood, therefore, 409. ventures still to vary the phrase, and says " that all blasphemy and profaneness are offences by the common law,
Page 612 - Oh, righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.