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... children to provide for besides himself ; and nearly beside himself did the obligation make him , for the poor fellow was over- whelmed with debt , and many a time had not so much as two - pence in his pocket to pay for a chance letter ...
... children to provide for besides himself ; and nearly beside himself did the obligation make him , for the poor fellow was over- whelmed with debt , and many a time had not so much as two - pence in his pocket to pay for a chance letter ...
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... child , who , with his wife , he has left behind him , in the crowded desert of London , to await his getting settled in this new place , when they are to join him again . He is installed at his new master's desk , and writes- writes ...
... child , who , with his wife , he has left behind him , in the crowded desert of London , to await his getting settled in this new place , when they are to join him again . He is installed at his new master's desk , and writes- writes ...
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... child shall be smitten as with pestilence ; -shall be diseased and rendered loathsome always , for life ! Ah me ! The night is here , and towards the Railway station is he hurriedly walking - the money in his pocket still . " Some ...
... child shall be smitten as with pestilence ; -shall be diseased and rendered loathsome always , for life ! Ah me ! The night is here , and towards the Railway station is he hurriedly walking - the money in his pocket still . " Some ...
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... child . Fear is depicted on the features of the two former , as the clerk looks silently and steadfastly at a paragraph in the Police Gazette . Horror ! it is a minute description of himself — his name — the names of his past and late ...
... child . Fear is depicted on the features of the two former , as the clerk looks silently and steadfastly at a paragraph in the Police Gazette . Horror ! it is a minute description of himself — his name — the names of his past and late ...
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... child , and an acquaintance with the one will constitute your best intro- duction to the other . Be not particular , therefore , what edition you use . Take the first that comes , and begin a systematic study of it , chapter by chapter ...
... child , and an acquaintance with the one will constitute your best intro- duction to the other . Be not particular , therefore , what edition you use . Take the first that comes , and begin a systematic study of it , chapter by chapter ...
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Page 9 - To kings that fear their subjects' treachery? O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth! And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Page 9 - tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye ? O, no, good Kate ; neither art thou the worse For this poor furniture and mean array.
Page 8 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and...
Page 21 - Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as of bailiffs, receivers, and the like. For a man may have an estate in them, either to him and his heirs, or for life, or for a term of years, or during pleasure...
Page 8 - God ! mcthiuks it were a happy life, " To be DO better than a homely swain ;" For, of a truth, (quoting Shakspeare's description of a humble rustic — quite applicable to our own times, if, for
Page 12 - Stops on a sudden, looks npon the ground, " Then lays his finger on his temple straight; " Springs out into fast gait; then stops again, " Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts " His eye against the moon : in most strange postures