The Metropolitan, Volume 39James Cochrane, 1844 - English literature |
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... believe , on behalf of Mr. Barrett . He reserves himself for the grand display , and a splendid piece of declamation will he contribute to the next volume of Howell . On him , more than any other , with the exception of Mr. O'Connell ...
... believe , on behalf of Mr. Barrett . He reserves himself for the grand display , and a splendid piece of declamation will he contribute to the next volume of Howell . On him , more than any other , with the exception of Mr. O'Connell ...
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... believe the voluntary omission . Sir William Follett passed over a miserable defect in the venue on the chartist trials , which , in the days of his dock - splendour , the practised eye of Burke Bethel could not fail to have discovered ...
... believe the voluntary omission . Sir William Follett passed over a miserable defect in the venue on the chartist trials , which , in the days of his dock - splendour , the practised eye of Burke Bethel could not fail to have discovered ...
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... believe Condé would make use of such an instrument . " And it belongs not to us , " continued she , rather haughtily , " to give credence to anything so vile in a son of France . Be the prince ever so much our enemy , neither our son ...
... believe Condé would make use of such an instrument . " And it belongs not to us , " continued she , rather haughtily , " to give credence to anything so vile in a son of France . Be the prince ever so much our enemy , neither our son ...
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... believe that bare steel had been so close to his heart - and even now , your life hanging on a single thread ! Follow the way of my guests ! Indeed , in your situation , I should be afraid to turn the corner of a street through fear of ...
... believe that bare steel had been so close to his heart - and even now , your life hanging on a single thread ! Follow the way of my guests ! Indeed , in your situation , I should be afraid to turn the corner of a street through fear of ...
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... believe paramount to your own ; but remember , you have not only Gustavus to think about , there is the infant - you must support yourself for both . Sad as is your situation at present , what would theirs be without you ? You feel now ...
... believe paramount to your own ; but remember , you have not only Gustavus to think about , there is the infant - you must support yourself for both . Sad as is your situation at present , what would theirs be without you ? You feel now ...
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Page 17 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 376 - The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then, let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish, else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one.
Page 17 - Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Page 376 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 145 - I chide the world-without-end hour, Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour, When you have bid your servant once adieu: Nor dare I question with my jealous thought, Where you may be , or your affairs suppose...
Page 246 - THE healthy know not of their health, but only the sick : this is the Physician's Aphorism; and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. We may say, it holds no less in moral, intellectual, political, poetical, than in merely corporeal therapeutics; that wherever, or in what shape soever, powers of the sort which can be named vital are at work, herein lies the test of their working right or working wrong.
Page 27 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 122 - They should neither have a precedency or priority of the other ; but that prayer and preaching, being equally useful, might agree like brethren, and have an equal honour and estimation.
Page 47 - It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest...
Page 87 - Voyages round the World, from the Death of Captain Cook to the present Time...