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Page 87
My dear , " - Mr . Lauriston was addressing his wife Charlotte- " did I hear you say you have brought no wine ? " " I did not consider it necessary , " returned the lady decisively ; " but there are two sorts of lemonade and some lime ...
My dear , " - Mr . Lauriston was addressing his wife Charlotte- " did I hear you say you have brought no wine ? " " I did not consider it necessary , " returned the lady decisively ; " but there are two sorts of lemonade and some lime ...
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man did the heavy work ; it had even survived the unpacking which , it is true , was principally done by Mrs. Lauriston and Agatha , with Martin's assistance . But since then Mr. Lauriston had had time to observe things more minutely .
man did the heavy work ; it had even survived the unpacking which , it is true , was principally done by Mrs. Lauriston and Agatha , with Martin's assistance . But since then Mr. Lauriston had had time to observe things more minutely .
Page 89
Mr. Lauriston hardly felt equal to a discussion of the suggested subject ; instead , he asked Cicely what she had been doing . " I , too , was wondering why we did not live more alone with Nature , " she answered in evasive imitation of ...
Mr. Lauriston hardly felt equal to a discussion of the suggested subject ; instead , he asked Cicely what she had been doing . " I , too , was wondering why we did not live more alone with Nature , " she answered in evasive imitation of ...
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Mr. Lauriston answered her that it was so . " But perhaps Martin knows , " he added , calling to him . Martin appeared with another bottle of stout and a cork - screw . Aunt Charlotte's eye , however , convinced him that they were not ...
Mr. Lauriston answered her that it was so . " But perhaps Martin knows , " he added , calling to him . Martin appeared with another bottle of stout and a cork - screw . Aunt Charlotte's eye , however , convinced him that they were not ...
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Mr. Lauriston was rather pleased with his loyal simile ; he felt that he was in a sense repaying to the throne of England the debt of courage that he had just incurred . Perceiving that his words had had some small effect on Cicely he ...
Mr. Lauriston was rather pleased with his loyal simile ; he felt that he was in a sense repaying to the throne of England the debt of courage that he had just incurred . Perceiving that his words had had some small effect on Cicely he ...
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Page 550 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 21 - Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: ' A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
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Page 134 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Page 702 - Commons; and all bills for the granting of any such aids and supplies ought to begin with the Commons; and that it is the undoubted and sole right of the Commons to direct, limit and appoint in such bills, the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations, and qualifications of such grants which ought not to be changed or altered by the House of Lords...
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Page 288 - The satirist" may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind.
Page 361 - What then is man ! What then is man ! He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the being and in the working of a faithful man is there already (as all faith from the beginning gives assurance) a something that pertains not to this wild death-element of Time ; that triumphs over Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more.