Cooper's Works, Volume 17Stringer and Townsend, 1855 - American literature |
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Page 57
... kings , lords , and commons . The usual winding up of all the Doctor's essays , was a lamentation on the confusion in classes that was visiting England as a judgment . My ancestor , on the other hand , cared little for social ...
... kings , lords , and commons . The usual winding up of all the Doctor's essays , was a lamentation on the confusion in classes that was visiting England as a judgment . My ancestor , on the other hand , cared little for social ...
Page 64
... King to his crown is not more apparent , than was my direct lineal descent from my father . I always believed him to be my ancestor de jure , as well as de facto , and could fain have loved him and honoured him as such , had my natural ...
... King to his crown is not more apparent , than was my direct lineal descent from my father . I always believed him to be my ancestor de jure , as well as de facto , and could fain have loved him and honoured him as such , had my natural ...
Page 86
... , of Householder Hall , in the county of Dorset , and of Cheapside , Esquire to the dignity of a Baronet of the United King doms of Great Britain and Ireland . " " Sir John Goldencalf , I have the honor to 86 THE MONIKINS.
... , of Householder Hall , in the county of Dorset , and of Cheapside , Esquire to the dignity of a Baronet of the United King doms of Great Britain and Ireland . " " Sir John Goldencalf , I have the honor to 86 THE MONIKINS.
Page 91
... kings , had made me , perhaps , the richest subject of Europe . With this polar star of theory shining before my eyes , and with practical means so ample , it would have been clearly my own fault , had I not steered my bark into the ...
... kings , had made me , perhaps , the richest subject of Europe . With this polar star of theory shining before my eyes , and with practical means so ample , it would have been clearly my own fault , had I not steered my bark into the ...
Page 95
... King Tamamamaah to create a monopoly of sandal - wood , in our joint behalf . The earth and all it contained assumed new glo- ries in my eyes . I had fulfilled the essential condi- tion of the political economists , the jurists , the ...
... King Tamamamaah to create a monopoly of sandal - wood , in our joint behalf . The earth and all it contained assumed new glo- ries in my eyes . I had fulfilled the essential condi- tion of the political economists , the jurists , the ...
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Page 327 - ... that he must have the attributes of a conscience, of which memory formed one of the most essential features. Conscience was defined to be " the faculty by which we judge of the goodness or wickedness of our own actions.