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... human interest , and especially no genu- ine national interest . With the particular measures of Party , and above all , with the private aims and motives of parties , we not only will not , but cannot have any thing to do ; inclination ...
... human interest , and especially no genu- ine national interest . With the particular measures of Party , and above all , with the private aims and motives of parties , we not only will not , but cannot have any thing to do ; inclination ...
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... human character . Now you , who actually go to the din- ner , may not entirely agree with the view my fancy takes of that entertainment . Is it not , therefore , rather your loss ? or , to put it in another way , ought I to envy you the ...
... human character . Now you , who actually go to the din- ner , may not entirely agree with the view my fancy takes of that entertainment . Is it not , therefore , rather your loss ? or , to put it in another way , ought I to envy you the ...
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... human creatures are , without knowing it , and that more hearts than we dream of , enjoy our hap- piness and share our sorrows . Thus I dine at great tables uninvited , and , unknown , converse with the famous beauties . If Aurelia is ...
... human creatures are , without knowing it , and that more hearts than we dream of , enjoy our hap- piness and share our sorrows . Thus I dine at great tables uninvited , and , unknown , converse with the famous beauties . If Aurelia is ...
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... human invader , who dares at- tempt his eyrie . In this particular , the gallantry of the fish - hawk is conspicuous ; he has been known , according to Mr. Gardiner's report to Wilson , to fix his claws in the wool of a negro's head ...
... human invader , who dares at- tempt his eyrie . In this particular , the gallantry of the fish - hawk is conspicuous ; he has been known , according to Mr. Gardiner's report to Wilson , to fix his claws in the wool of a negro's head ...
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... human - like in many of them , the death of which can in no sort minister to the wants or even the luxu- ries of man ; the lives of which are not only wholly innocuous , but tend in a high degree to the pleasure and edification of all ...
... human - like in many of them , the death of which can in no sort minister to the wants or even the luxu- ries of man ; the lives of which are not only wholly innocuous , but tend in a high degree to the pleasure and edification of all ...
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Page 389 - He's here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host. Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 510 - God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Page 389 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 393 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 167 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Page 391 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 389 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking- off...
Page 389 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.
Page 379 - It had bene a thing, we confesse, worthie to have bene wished, that the Author himselfe had liv'd to have set forth, and overseen his owne writings; But since it hath bin ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his Friends, the office of their care, and paine...
Page 548 - ... in short, he need not come to my chambers after twelve o'clock, but, dinner over, had best go home to his, lodgings and rest himself till teatime. But no; he insisted upon his afternoon devotions. His countenance became intolerably fervid, as he oratorically assured me — gesticulating with a long ruler at the other end of the room — that if his services in the morning were useful, how indispensable, then, in the afternoon? "With submission, sir," said Turkey, on this occasion, "I consider...