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... lived was nine miles from Fairminster , and in that direction Philip marched along with great strides , for he was a capital walker , and could easily do his five - and - a - half miles an hour . Now Fairminster is one of the most ...
... lived was nine miles from Fairminster , and in that direction Philip marched along with great strides , for he was a capital walker , and could easily do his five - and - a - half miles an hour . Now Fairminster is one of the most ...
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... " No judge that ever lived recognised these aims of the law more sagaciously or effectively than Sir George Jessel . WALTER S. SICHEL . THE EXAMINATION - CRAZE . A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CONTROVERSY 40 A JUDGE'S LEGACY .
... " No judge that ever lived recognised these aims of the law more sagaciously or effectively than Sir George Jessel . WALTER S. SICHEL . THE EXAMINATION - CRAZE . A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CONTROVERSY 40 A JUDGE'S LEGACY .
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... lived on a few francs weekly , and where even the shops seemed too dispirited and indifferent to make the best of their poor contents . At the corner of one street was a second - hand furniture dealer's , a number of whose goods were ...
... lived on a few francs weekly , and where even the shops seemed too dispirited and indifferent to make the best of their poor contents . At the corner of one street was a second - hand furniture dealer's , a number of whose goods were ...
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... lived in an almost impenetrable jungle of chairs . 8 Yes , it was sold ; sold yesterday to a lady who had fetched it away in a cab but a little quarter of an hour ago . There was nothing else that Monsieur fancied ? Cette belle armoire ...
... lived in an almost impenetrable jungle of chairs . 8 Yes , it was sold ; sold yesterday to a lady who had fetched it away in a cab but a little quarter of an hour ago . There was nothing else that Monsieur fancied ? Cette belle armoire ...
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... lived just long enough to name her after his mother ) became heiress to all this big estate , and married Dennett Shaw . So there were broad acres and accumu- lated wealth waiting to be claimed by her , only they did not know it : he ...
... lived just long enough to name her after his mother ) became heiress to all this big estate , and married Dennett Shaw . So there were broad acres and accumu- lated wealth waiting to be claimed by her , only they did not know it : he ...
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Page 150 - Wherefore if it be His pleasure through whom is the life of all things, that my life continue with me a few years, it is my hope that I shall yet write concerning her what hath not before been written of any woman.
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Page 140 - It is to be known that the beholding this lady was so largely ordained for us, not merely to look upon the face which she shows us, but that we may desire to attain the things which she keeps concealed. And as through her much thereof is...
Page 193 - English nation, the defence of Christendom against the Koran, the grace and the terror of feudalism, the rise of monarchy out of baronies, the rise of parliaments out of monarchy the rise of industry out of serfage, the pathetic ruin of chivalry, the splendid death-struggle of Catholicism, the sylvan tribes of the mountain (remnants of our pre-historic forefathers) beating themselves to pieces against the hard advance of modern industry ; we see the grim heroism of the Bible-martyrs, the catastrophe...
Page 36 - Common Law a creditor might accept anything in satisfaction of his debt except a less amount of money. He might take a horse, or a canary, or a tomtit if he chose, and that was accord and satisfaction; but, by a most extraordinary peculiarity of the English Common Law, he could not take 19s.
Page 152 - State ; each felt the quarrels of his age to be " the business of posterity," and left his warnings to ring in the ears of a later time. The lives of both were failures. " On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues...
Page 193 - Strong men and proud women struggle against the destiny of modern society, unconsciously working out its ways, undauntedly defying its power. How just is our island Homer! Neither Greek nor Trojan sways him; Achilles is his hero; Hector is his favorite; he loves the councils of chiefs and the palace of Priam; but the swineherd, the charioteer, the...