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... doubt , been to rally the patriotic sentiment against the " Unholy Alliance . " The idea of describing the Ultramon- tane , obscurantist , Vaticanist , at heart not patriotic men of the Centre , who mainly go by the counsels and behests ...
... doubt , been to rally the patriotic sentiment against the " Unholy Alliance . " The idea of describing the Ultramon- tane , obscurantist , Vaticanist , at heart not patriotic men of the Centre , who mainly go by the counsels and behests ...
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... doubt , understood it as a sign of the times . It was observed , during the election- eering campaign , that the bearing of the Kaiser towards the municipality of Berlin had latterly changed in a re- markable degree . Formerly , it was ...
... doubt , understood it as a sign of the times . It was observed , during the election- eering campaign , that the bearing of the Kaiser towards the municipality of Berlin had latterly changed in a re- markable degree . Formerly , it was ...
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... doubt dress for din- ner . " The Admiral's voice had that ring of decision in it that always brought an expression of studied inno- cence into the faces of the large un- ruly boys at the bottom of the Lower Sixth , and he stooped for a ...
... doubt dress for din- ner . " The Admiral's voice had that ring of decision in it that always brought an expression of studied inno- cence into the faces of the large un- ruly boys at the bottom of the Lower Sixth , and he stooped for a ...
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... doubt if there's such a thing as a parasol there ; the vicar's a bachelor . They might have come up in a boat , except that boats never get as high as this if they've got women on board . " " Damn , " observed Talbot from the middle of ...
... doubt if there's such a thing as a parasol there ; the vicar's a bachelor . They might have come up in a boat , except that boats never get as high as this if they've got women on board . " " Damn , " observed Talbot from the middle of ...
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... doubt . So , coming to the Severn mouth , they would take a coaster bound for Swansea , where porcelain of a kind was then being made . The storm which scared Sarah Billingsley would come upon them in the Bristol Channel , and the ...
... doubt . So , coming to the Severn mouth , they would take a coaster bound for Swansea , where porcelain of a kind was then being made . The storm which scared Sarah Billingsley would come upon them in the Bristol Channel , and the ...
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Page 544 - 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 15 - 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.
Page 26 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 128 - 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 696 - 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...
Page 404 - To mind the inside of a book is to entertain one's self with the forced product of another man's brain. Now I think a man of quality and breeding may be much amused with the natural sprouts of his own.
Page 26 - O pardon ! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million, And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Page 644 - Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still here; Here still is the smile, that no cloud can o'ercast, And a heart and a hand all thy own to the last. Oh! what was love made for, if 'tis not the same Through joy and through torment, through glory and shame? I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. Thou hast...
Page 282 - 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 355 - 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.