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... known for a poltroon ; and if you had one grain of courage , " & c . & c . These were the brave words put together in the security of after years , when , in a fit of Jacobitism , he composed what he jocosely terms " Memoirs of his Life ...
... known for a poltroon ; and if you had one grain of courage , " & c . & c . These were the brave words put together in the security of after years , when , in a fit of Jacobitism , he composed what he jocosely terms " Memoirs of his Life ...
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... known to seal his doom ! organ of the government . The encouraging , bom- bastic , self - glorifying styles come out strongly in the Jacobite letters ; the pathetic , indignant , resigned , injured , meekly forgiving styles are the ...
... known to seal his doom ! organ of the government . The encouraging , bom- bastic , self - glorifying styles come out strongly in the Jacobite letters ; the pathetic , indignant , resigned , injured , meekly forgiving styles are the ...
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... known a friend like thee . " Or take the better delineation by the great master of character : - " His life was gentle , and the elements So mixed in him , that nature might stand up And say to all the world , this was a man . ' In his ...
... known a friend like thee . " Or take the better delineation by the great master of character : - " His life was gentle , and the elements So mixed in him , that nature might stand up And say to all the world , this was a man . ' In his ...
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... known , as a wild they did not go far away unless an endeavor was species , to be an inhabitant of woody districts , re - made to approach them , repeated and decided evi- mote from man , among the lower ranges of the dence was obtained ...
... known , as a wild they did not go far away unless an endeavor was species , to be an inhabitant of woody districts , re - made to approach them , repeated and decided evi- mote from man , among the lower ranges of the dence was obtained ...
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... known fact , that a truly wild species , nearly allied to the aguara dog , though distinct from it , occurs in the Falkland Islands . It is the only native quadruped of that group , ( if we except possibly a field mouse , ) and is known ...
... known fact , that a truly wild species , nearly allied to the aguara dog , though distinct from it , occurs in the Falkland Islands . It is the only native quadruped of that group , ( if we except possibly a field mouse , ) and is known ...
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Page 18 - For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind; but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 21 - God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah. 6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Page 294 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Page 52 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 177 - Friends and comrades!" he said, " on that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion and death; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part I go to the south.
Page 55 - I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 205 - I went down to the bottom of the mountains ; the earth with her bars was about me for ever : yet hast Thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
Page 180 - Of this at least I feel assured, that there is no such thing as forgetting possible to the mind; a thousand accidents may and will interpose a veil between our present consciousness and the secret inscriptions on the mind; accidents of the same sort will also rend away this veil; but alike, whether veiled or unveiled, the inscription remains for ever...
Page 177 - It was answered by the battle-cry of every Spaniard in the city, as rushing from the avenues of the great halls in which they were concealed, they poured into the plaza, horse and foot, each in his own dark column, and threw themselves into the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by the report of artillery and muskets, the echoes of which reverberated like thunder from the surrounding buildings, and blinded by the smoke which rolled in sulphurous volumes along the square,...
Page 295 - ... rider in all their terrors. They made no resistance, as, indeed, they had no weapons with which to make it. Every avenue to escape was closed, for the entrance to the square was choked up with the dead bodies of men who had perished in vain efforts to fly ; and such was the agony of the .survivors under the terrible pressure of their assailants, that a large body of Indians, by their convulsive struggles, burst through the wall of stone and dried clay which formed part of the boundary of the...