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... writing pious letters to the pious . There is , too , so much of the bandit in this man's history , that no fictitious narra- CLXIV . LIVING AGE . VOL . XIV . 1 tive of border feud can exceed it in interest . We read it now with far ...
... writing pious letters to the pious . There is , too , so much of the bandit in this man's history , that no fictitious narra- CLXIV . LIVING AGE . VOL . XIV . 1 tive of border feud can exceed it in interest . We read it now with far ...
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... writing strongly to the government officials in do with it . On the contrary , the clan were mad , favor of the government , and conjuring his Jacobite and his son was mad , and he , an old man , was un - friends to destroy all his ...
... writing strongly to the government officials in do with it . On the contrary , the clan were mad , favor of the government , and conjuring his Jacobite and his son was mad , and he , an old man , was un - friends to destroy all his ...
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... writing him thus : - " I conceive great pleasure in the different degree of weight and credit with which your decisions come before the house , from what they did a few years ago , an alteration which I presaged would happen , and do ...
... writing him thus : - " I conceive great pleasure in the different degree of weight and credit with which your decisions come before the house , from what they did a few years ago , an alteration which I presaged would happen , and do ...
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... writers who have left enduring memorials of their genius - Gibbon , Hume , Gold- smith , or Burke . Any book ... writer thinks it necessary to print ; and only they who have come from a recent perusal of their empty mouthings can ...
... writers who have left enduring memorials of their genius - Gibbon , Hume , Gold- smith , or Burke . Any book ... writer thinks it necessary to print ; and only they who have come from a recent perusal of their empty mouthings can ...
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... writers who " term this wonderful instinct the work of man . " In this we conceive lies his misconception of the whole matter . He seems to think that the writers whom he criticises assert that man has formed the peculiar instincts of ...
... writers who " term this wonderful instinct the work of man . " In this we conceive lies his misconception of the whole matter . He seems to think that the writers whom he criticises assert that man has formed the peculiar instincts of ...
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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...