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... Feeling of Irish Tenants , 179 672 , 743 , 785 A Parcel Post , 184 Why the French Empire is becoming Un- N. Y. EVENING POST . popular , 217 Sir John Franklin's Expedition , 185 America and England , 244 The Stars in their courses fought ...
... Feeling of Irish Tenants , 179 672 , 743 , 785 A Parcel Post , 184 Why the French Empire is becoming Un- N. Y. EVENING POST . popular , 217 Sir John Franklin's Expedition , 185 America and England , 244 The Stars in their courses fought ...
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... feeling . " I trust , by the aid of God , " said the youth , trembling with hope and eagerness , as he set out on his enterprise , to the old man who had gone road towards the hunting - tryst . When the carriage was gone , Charles ...
... feeling . " I trust , by the aid of God , " said the youth , trembling with hope and eagerness , as he set out on his enterprise , to the old man who had gone road towards the hunting - tryst . When the carriage was gone , Charles ...
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... feeling that arrested Charles on his way . It was no defection of heart , no faltering of courage . These men were all as ready to die for him as when , hopeless yet dauntless , they had pledged him their Highland faith . But all at ...
... feeling that arrested Charles on his way . It was no defection of heart , no faltering of courage . These men were all as ready to die for him as when , hopeless yet dauntless , they had pledged him their Highland faith . But all at ...
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... feeling he now had in connec- tion with the affair , which had been the most exciting and romantic episode in a life suffi- ciently prosaic and prosperous , was , that he was glad that his responsibility concerning the boy had come to ...
... feeling he now had in connec- tion with the affair , which had been the most exciting and romantic episode in a life suffi- ciently prosaic and prosperous , was , that he was glad that his responsibility concerning the boy had come to ...
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... feeling which had been familiar to him when he was under Julia Peyton's spell . ، ' Not so fast , not so fast , ' he ... feelings were dulled and Julia's son was antipa- thetic to him , felt it so .. This was a melan- choly sort of ...
... feeling which had been familiar to him when he was under Julia Peyton's spell . ، ' Not so fast , not so fast , ' he ... feelings were dulled and Julia's son was antipa- thetic to him , felt it so .. This was a melan- choly sort of ...
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Page 311 - Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 460 - ... the passage from' the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 286 - That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor call'd the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 448 - The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Page 47 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on Earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner...
Page 461 - ... to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain ; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the • solution of the problem, ' How are these physical processes...
Page 199 - Until they won her ; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Page 80 - Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe — is it, like Sorrow, merely an element of human education, through which we struggle to a higher and purer state than we could otherwise have attained? Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?
Page 448 - Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.