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Page 37
... fear , and peace and strife , In the thread of human life . While the mystic twist is spinning , And the infant's life beginning , Dimly seen through twilight bending , Lo , what varied shapes attending ! Passions wild , and follies ...
... fear , and peace and strife , In the thread of human life . While the mystic twist is spinning , And the infant's life beginning , Dimly seen through twilight bending , Lo , what varied shapes attending ! Passions wild , and follies ...
Page 40
... fear about this man , which was in- expressibly disgusting . His manners were those of a ruffian , conscious of the suspicion attending his character , yet aiming to bear it down by the affec- tation of a careless and hardy familiarity ...
... fear about this man , which was in- expressibly disgusting . His manners were those of a ruffian , conscious of the suspicion attending his character , yet aiming to bear it down by the affec- tation of a careless and hardy familiarity ...
Page 49
... fears , and delays , rumours from good authority , and bad authority , and no authority at all , after some clubs had drank Up with this statesman , and others Down with him ; after riding , and running , and posting , and addressing ...
... fears , and delays , rumours from good authority , and bad authority , and no authority at all , after some clubs had drank Up with this statesman , and others Down with him ; after riding , and running , and posting , and addressing ...
Page 58
... fear or conscience , from taking desperate vengeance upon those who had of- fended them . These tribes were , in short the Parias of Scotland , living like wild Indians among Euro- pean settlers , and like them , judged of rather by ...
... fear or conscience , from taking desperate vengeance upon those who had of- fended them . These tribes were , in short the Parias of Scotland , living like wild Indians among Euro- pean settlers , and like them , judged of rather by ...
Page 77
... fear of going ashore , and to make a large tack back into the bay , in order to re- cover sea - room enough to double the head - land . ' They'll lose her , by , cargo and lugger , one or both , ' said Kennedy ; ' I must gallop away to ...
... fear of going ashore , and to make a large tack back into the bay , in order to re- cover sea - room enough to double the head - land . ' They'll lose her , by , cargo and lugger , one or both , ' said Kennedy ; ' I must gallop away to ...
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