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... give special entertainments , such as concerts , on bank holidays in order to prove a counter attraction to the dancing - saloons and the drink and special temptations of those days . That the public holidays are a terrible danger to ...
... give special entertainments , such as concerts , on bank holidays in order to prove a counter attraction to the dancing - saloons and the drink and special temptations of those days . That the public holidays are a terrible danger to ...
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... give ear ? No Parlia- ment , whether at Westminster or Washington , moves without pressure or without urgent cause . An absolute Government may exercise forethought and plan a paternal policy , a Parliament cannot ; and if the ...
... give ear ? No Parlia- ment , whether at Westminster or Washington , moves without pressure or without urgent cause . An absolute Government may exercise forethought and plan a paternal policy , a Parliament cannot ; and if the ...
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... give the preference to English methods . But whether it be hotels or railway cars , horses or carriage - building , banks or beautiful women , oysters or engineer- ing , the ordinary American loudly asserts his superiority over Eng ...
... give the preference to English methods . But whether it be hotels or railway cars , horses or carriage - building , banks or beautiful women , oysters or engineer- ing , the ordinary American loudly asserts his superiority over Eng ...
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... give municipal govern- ment to the cities , is notoriously inefficient and corrupt , and that the criminal classes , who are personally most interested in the verdicts of the courts , select the judges to preside in them . Even in ...
... give municipal govern- ment to the cities , is notoriously inefficient and corrupt , and that the criminal classes , who are personally most interested in the verdicts of the courts , select the judges to preside in them . Even in ...
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... give us , as in Mr. Edward Barrett's drawing of the death of Falstaff , a rare and pathetic suggestion . But he is greater , of course , in eccentric character - in all that his predecessors had not touched at all ; and he is greatest ...
... give us , as in Mr. Edward Barrett's drawing of the death of Falstaff , a rare and pathetic suggestion . But he is greater , of course , in eccentric character - in all that his predecessors had not touched at all ; and he is greatest ...
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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.