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... ship for whose capture , the unfor- at the trial - proceeding coolly to manage his estates tunate men suffered , informing their friends that and to keep up a horde of retainers - to levy rents , they were all safe . " This execution ...
... ship for whose capture , the unfor- at the trial - proceeding coolly to manage his estates tunate men suffered , informing their friends that and to keep up a horde of retainers - to levy rents , they were all safe . " This execution ...
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... ship to himself . He could do with them what he pleased . He led them in favor of the government , in the first rebellion , after recalling them from the service of Mar ; he led them against the govern- ment in the '45 , and at one blow ...
... ship to himself . He could do with them what he pleased . He led them in favor of the government , in the first rebellion , after recalling them from the service of Mar ; he led them against the govern- ment in the '45 , and at one blow ...
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... ship will find when once this rebellion is crushed , and the government at leisure to examine into the affair . And ... ship's conduct , and see the double game you have part quite different from what you have done ; but played for some ...
... ship will find when once this rebellion is crushed , and the government at leisure to examine into the affair . And ... ship's conduct , and see the double game you have part quite different from what you have done ; but played for some ...
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... ship with pennons flying Waiteth in the bay ; They lead her there with a train so fair ; Lady Agatha must away . The merry wind is singing Through the sails so white ; Then bounding away like a child at play , That ship was a goodly ...
... ship with pennons flying Waiteth in the bay ; They lead her there with a train so fair ; Lady Agatha must away . The merry wind is singing Through the sails so white ; Then bounding away like a child at play , That ship was a goodly ...
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... ships , and remained till she was joined by a setter freedom , ( supposing that they are only emancipated dog belonging to one of the officers . They were The usually together for two or three hours ; and as varieties , ) have reverted ...
... ships , and remained till she was joined by a setter freedom , ( supposing that they are only emancipated dog belonging to one of the officers . They were The usually together for two or three hours ; and as varieties , ) have reverted ...
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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...