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Page 44
... become owner of the land and pay no rent ; for the refinements of political mechanism , central or local , he cares about as much as he does for the refinements of art or mathematics . Another indictment is social . It is said that ...
... become owner of the land and pay no rent ; for the refinements of political mechanism , central or local , he cares about as much as he does for the refinements of art or mathematics . Another indictment is social . It is said that ...
Page 51
... become more Americanised ; while some English statesmen are admittedly careless how high the tide may rise , and what existing institutions it may sweep away . It is as well that Englishmen should understand what is the dream of ...
... become more Americanised ; while some English statesmen are admittedly careless how high the tide may rise , and what existing institutions it may sweep away . It is as well that Englishmen should understand what is the dream of ...
Page 52
... become independent and carried her affections elsewhere , has escaped the dreary role of chaperone , may surely refuse invitations to see Columbia dance , in fancy dress , to the tune of Yankee Doodle , and may plead her age and figure ...
... become independent and carried her affections elsewhere , has escaped the dreary role of chaperone , may surely refuse invitations to see Columbia dance , in fancy dress , to the tune of Yankee Doodle , and may plead her age and figure ...
Page 54
... become for the time the fashion . Horse - racing has grown to large pro- portions , fox - hunting , lawn - tennis , and cricket are making slow progress , and the New York dude might almost compare , for fatuous imbecility , with the ...
... become for the time the fashion . Horse - racing has grown to large pro- portions , fox - hunting , lawn - tennis , and cricket are making slow progress , and the New York dude might almost compare , for fatuous imbecility , with the ...
Page 60
... become a far more agree- able place than it is at present . The change in the habits of the men will have a direct effect upon the beauty of the women . The English are an athletic race , and the amusements in which they delight are in ...
... become a far more agree- able place than it is at present . The change in the habits of the men will have a direct effect upon the beauty of the women . The English are an athletic race , and the amusements in which they delight are in ...
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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.