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... leave it to the last moment . " " I don't like to have everything settled beforehand , " said the girl . " I like more unexpectedness . " Her uncle seemed amused at her distinctness of preference . " Well , it's settled beforehand that ...
... leave it to the last moment . " " I don't like to have everything settled beforehand , " said the girl . " I like more unexpectedness . " Her uncle seemed amused at her distinctness of preference . " Well , it's settled beforehand that ...
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... leave him as he is ; he is too much liked . " 66 Ah , he couldn't be a martyr even if he wished ! " Isabel exclaimed . “ That's a very poor position ! " “ He will never be a martyr unless you make him one , " said the old man . Isabel ...
... leave him as he is ; he is too much liked . " 66 Ah , he couldn't be a martyr even if he wished ! " Isabel exclaimed . “ That's a very poor position ! " “ He will never be a martyr unless you make him one , " said the old man . Isabel ...
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... leaving lunch , went to walk in the grounds ; but Lord Warburton exercised some ingenuity in engaging his youngest visitor in a stroll somewhat apart from the others . " I wish you to see the place pro- perly , seriously , " he said ...
... leaving lunch , went to walk in the grounds ; but Lord Warburton exercised some ingenuity in engaging his youngest visitor in a stroll somewhat apart from the others . " I wish you to see the place pro- perly , seriously , " he said ...
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... leave . " " He is what is called a cosmo- politan , " Isabel suggested . " That means he's a little of every- thing and not much of any ! I must say I think patriotism is like charity -it begins at home . " " Ah , but where does home ...
... leave . " " He is what is called a cosmo- politan , " Isabel suggested . " That means he's a little of every- thing and not much of any ! I must say I think patriotism is like charity -it begins at home . " " Ah , but where does home ...
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... leaves nothing to be desired . But if the obvious conclusion drawn from a small number of obvious facts is sometimes misleading , then nothing can be more futile than these great popular de- cisions , which never even profess to look ...
... leaves nothing to be desired . But if the obvious conclusion drawn from a small number of obvious facts is sometimes misleading , then nothing can be more futile than these great popular de- cisions , which never even profess to look ...
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Page 364 - Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize ; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Page 230 - Revenge with a swarthier alien crew, And away she sail'd with her loss and long'd for her own ; When a wind from the lands they had ruin'd awoke from sleep, And the water began to heave and the weather to moan, And or ever that evening ended a great gale blew, And a wave like the wave that is raised by an earthquake grew, Till it smote on their hulls and their sails and their masts and their flags, And the whole sea plunged and fell on the shot-shatter'd navy of Spain, And the little Revenge herself...
Page 197 - And I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm; so help me God.
Page 232 - We should be seen, my dear; they would spy us out of the town. The loud black nights for us, and the storm rushing over the down, When I cannot see my own hand, but am led by the creak of the chain, And grovel and grope for my son till I find myself drenched with the rain.
Page 232 - And if he be lost — but to save my soul, that is all your desire — Do you think that I care for my soul if my boy be gone to the fire? I have been with God in the...
Page 365 - And in poetry, no less than in life, he is * a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Page 362 - the splendid and imperishable excellence which covers all his offences and outweighs all his defects: the excellence of sincerity and strength.
Page 203 - God ; and in Public Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments I will use the Form in ' the said Book prescribed, and none other, except so far as shall be ordered by lawful
Page 203 - War, but who were unwilling, because unable, to give their unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything contained in the Book of Common Prayer.
Page 230 - Valour of delicate women who tended the hospital bed, Horror of women in travail among the dying and dead, Grief for our perishing children, and never a moment for grief, Toil and ineffable weariness, faltering hopes of relief...