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... colonies from the Peloponnesus into Southern Italy . It was the flower of the feast and the rities consider it almost impossible now flower of the tombs . The best autho- to identify the roses of the ancients . Theophrastus mentions ...
... colonies from the Peloponnesus into Southern Italy . It was the flower of the feast and the rities consider it almost impossible now flower of the tombs . The best autho- to identify the roses of the ancients . Theophrastus mentions ...
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... Colonies , " and urges him to induce the King and the Privy Council to recommend to the several Colonial Assemblies a " formal repeal of those unjust laws . " It does not appear that Lord North took any notice of this appeal ; but a ...
... Colonies , " and urges him to induce the King and the Privy Council to recommend to the several Colonial Assemblies a " formal repeal of those unjust laws . " It does not appear that Lord North took any notice of this appeal ; but a ...
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... colonies . But in the mean- while there was some danger of the ground already won being lost again . Immediately after the decision in Somerset's case , a motion was made in the House of Commons for leave to bring in a bill " for the ...
... colonies . But in the mean- while there was some danger of the ground already won being lost again . Immediately after the decision in Somerset's case , a motion was made in the House of Commons for leave to bring in a bill " for the ...
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... Colonies in the English House of Commons something analogous to that of an English county , and Sharp was employed by Lord Dart- mouth in examining precedents . few days later he wrote to him a remarkable letter , in which he called his ...
... Colonies in the English House of Commons something analogous to that of an English county , and Sharp was employed by Lord Dart- mouth in examining precedents . few days later he wrote to him a remarkable letter , in which he called his ...
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... colonies after March 1st , 1808 . Thus ended this long and memorable struggle in the cause of humanity . Wilberforce's name has been handed down to posterity as its parliamentary champion , but it is evident that the larger share of the ...
... colonies after March 1st , 1808 . Thus ended this long and memorable struggle in the cause of humanity . Wilberforce's name has been handed down to posterity as its parliamentary champion , but it is evident that the larger share of the ...
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Page 449 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 108 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Page 182 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best...
Page 89 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, ' To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 126 - Brother-in-Blood on leavened bread and salt: They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood on fire and fresh-cut sod, On the hilt and the haft of the Khyber knife, and the Wondrous Names of God. The Colonel's son he rides the mare and Kamal's boy the dun, And two have come back to Fort Bukloh where there went forth but one. And when they drew to the Quarter-Guard, full twenty swords flew clear — There was not a man but carried his feud with the blood of the mountaineer. "Ha
Page 126 - If there should follow a thousand swords to carry my bones away, Belike the price of a jackal's meal were more than a thief could pay. They will feed their horse on the standing crop, their men on the garnered grain, The thatch of the byres will serve their fires when all the cattle are slain. But if thou thinkest the price be fair, — thy brethren wait to sup.
Page 126 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat ; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho...
Page 203 - We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine ; But we've wander'd mony a weary foot Sin auld lang syne. For auld, &c. We twa hae paidl't i' the burn, From mornin sun till dine ; But seas between us braid hae roar'd Sin auld lang syne. For auld, &c. And here's a hand, my trusty fiere, And gie's a hand o' thine ; And we'll tak a right guid willie-waught, For auld lang syne.
Page 126 - who leads a troop of the Guides, 'And thou must ride at his left side as shield on shoulder rides. 'Till Death or I cut loose the tie, at camp and board and bed, 'Thy life is his — thy fate it is to guard him with thy head. 'So, thou must eat the White Queen's meat, and all her foes are thine, 'And thou must harry thy father's hold for the peace of the Border-line. 'And thou must make a trooper tough and hack thy way to power — 'Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur!
Page 183 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...