The Metropolitan, Volume 1James Cochrane and Company, 1831 |
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... England those rights , furtively abstracted from them and grossly abused . Furthermore , we live in times when it is no crime to wish the cause of freedom success in other countries - when we may , without any charge against our ...
... England those rights , furtively abstracted from them and grossly abused . Furthermore , we live in times when it is no crime to wish the cause of freedom success in other countries - when we may , without any charge against our ...
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... England to Queen Eliza- beth , for not having rung their bells on her Majesty's entrance . They had nineteen reasons , they said , for not ringing their bells ; the first of which was , that they had no bells to ring . In like manner it ...
... England to Queen Eliza- beth , for not having rung their bells on her Majesty's entrance . They had nineteen reasons , they said , for not ringing their bells ; the first of which was , that they had no bells to ring . In like manner it ...
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... millions to rejoice - in my unheeded urn ! O dear art thou to me , sweet May , in this my latter time , And welcome thy soft hours again , thou child of Summer's prime ! Ω . FASHION IN MUSIC . ENGLAND , more than any nation 22 May Day .
... millions to rejoice - in my unheeded urn ! O dear art thou to me , sweet May , in this my latter time , And welcome thy soft hours again , thou child of Summer's prime ! Ω . FASHION IN MUSIC . ENGLAND , more than any nation 22 May Day .
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... England ; but it may be more than doubted whether this sort of cultivation has tended to its advancement . Far be it from us to say that the blessings of music - one of the most delightful gifts of our merciful Creator — are to be the ...
... England ; but it may be more than doubted whether this sort of cultivation has tended to its advancement . Far be it from us to say that the blessings of music - one of the most delightful gifts of our merciful Creator — are to be the ...
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... England . At the theatres , the new musical pieces are almost always the works of Italians , Germans , or Frenchmen ; and in our concert- rooms and drawing - rooms there is the same exclusive choice of foreign music . Bishop is the last ...
... England . At the theatres , the new musical pieces are almost always the works of Italians , Germans , or Frenchmen ; and in our concert- rooms and drawing - rooms there is the same exclusive choice of foreign music . Bishop is the last ...
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Page 194 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 196 - And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Page 203 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, Which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the fie'ld: The wild asses quench their thirst.
Page 195 - Judah is a lion's whelp ; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped P 3 down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? — The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come : and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 196 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 201 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 202 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 192 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 200 - Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin — and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.
Page 203 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.