The Ladies' Museum, Volumes 1-2James Robins and Company, 1830 - English fiction |
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... fear . She spoke not , sunk not , o'er the scene she bent her tearless eye- Oh , has her reason fall'n beneath excess of agony ? - Conducted to her bower , full soon the voice of woman's wail Sounds wildly from that mountain - tower ...
... fear . She spoke not , sunk not , o'er the scene she bent her tearless eye- Oh , has her reason fall'n beneath excess of agony ? - Conducted to her bower , full soon the voice of woman's wail Sounds wildly from that mountain - tower ...
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... fear , however , " added he , " you will , upon inspecting our booty , consider us very indifferent anglers . " " Nay , Mr. Morton , " replied the lady , " I can readily excuse you , the weather has been the reverse of favourable to ...
... fear , however , " added he , " you will , upon inspecting our booty , consider us very indifferent anglers . " " Nay , Mr. Morton , " replied the lady , " I can readily excuse you , the weather has been the reverse of favourable to ...
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... fear hae I , ye need na wish a speedy voyage - better a watery grave than a broken heart ; better a pillow on the faeming brine , than a sleepless bed in a foreign land . " " What meanest thou ? " earnestly demanded Catharine , whose ...
... fear hae I , ye need na wish a speedy voyage - better a watery grave than a broken heart ; better a pillow on the faeming brine , than a sleepless bed in a foreign land . " " What meanest thou ? " earnestly demanded Catharine , whose ...
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... fear a little maliciously , " all the miseries of yesterday evening were sus- tained by us all unavailingly ? " Poor Anne looked round the room as if conscious that she , the strong one , had failed ; but her eye revived as the long ...
... fear a little maliciously , " all the miseries of yesterday evening were sus- tained by us all unavailingly ? " Poor Anne looked round the room as if conscious that she , the strong one , had failed ; but her eye revived as the long ...
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... fear their lead- ing you out of the labyrinth , in the easiest manner possible . The knot which you thought a Gordian one , will untie itself before you . Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition , that a person is to extricate himself ...
... fear their lead- ing you out of the labyrinth , in the easiest manner possible . The knot which you thought a Gordian one , will untie itself before you . Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition , that a person is to extricate himself ...
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Page 62 - ... we cooked up a resolution, somewhat modernizing their phrases, for appointing the first day of June, on which the Port bill was to commence, for a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, to implore heaven to avert from us the evils of civil war, to inspire us with firmness in support of our rights, and to turn the hearts of the King and Parliament to moderation and justice.
Page 17 - He can please when pleasure is required ; but it is his peculiar power to astonish. He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that Nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 67 - But you are, perhaps, curious to know how this new scene has struck a savage of the mountains of America. Not advantageously, I assure you. I find the general fate of humanity here, most deplorable. The truth of Voltaire's observation, offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil.
Page 110 - Yesterday, a very pretty letter from Annabella, which I answered. What an odd situation and friendship is ours! — without one spark of love on either side, and produced by circumstances which in general lead to coldness on one side, and aversion on the other. She is a very superior woman, and very little spoiled, which is strange in an heiress — a girl of twenty — a peeress that is to be, in her own right — an only child, and a savante, who has always had her own way. She is a poetess —...
Page 64 - I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point, which was to decide the question. They laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves.
Page 68 - Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance. Establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils, and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles, who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
Page 298 - With which the King was greatly offended, and said that then he should be under the law, which was treason to affirm, as he said; to which I said that Bracton saith, quod Rex non debet esse sub homine sed sub Deo et lege [that the King ought not to be under man but under God and under the law—BT\.
Page 5 - God would forgive me, and cast away my sins from me, and that he would receive me into everlasting life. So I take my leave of you all, making my peace with God.
Page 298 - Judges: to which it was answered by me, that true it was, that God had endowed his Majesty with excellent science, and great endowments of nature; but His Majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England, and causes which concern the life, or inheritance, or goods, or fortunes of his subjects, are not to be decided by natural reason but by the artificial reason and judgment of law, which law is an act which requires long study and experience, before that a man can attain to the cognizance...
Page 298 - Then the king said, that he thought the law was founded upon reason, and that he and others had reason as well as the judges. To which it was answered by me, that true it was that God had endowed his majesty with excellent science and great endowments of nature ; but his majesty was not learned in the laws of his realm of England. And causes which concern the life or inheritance, or goods or...