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... hope for some further assistance from the same quarter . We were in hopes of being able to give place to another communication from Sosia , but we have been disappointed — so will our readers . We have endeavoured this month to make ...
... hope for some further assistance from the same quarter . We were in hopes of being able to give place to another communication from Sosia , but we have been disappointed — so will our readers . We have endeavoured this month to make ...
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... hope you will not think me obliged has fixed upon Sir Simon Shallow - in conscience to obey mamma ; for brain as a husband for me . My || indeed , if I do marry him , I shall dear grandmother took great pains , be the most miserable ...
... hope you will not think me obliged has fixed upon Sir Simon Shallow - in conscience to obey mamma ; for brain as a husband for me . My || indeed , if I do marry him , I shall dear grandmother took great pains , be the most miserable ...
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... hope of com- fort , and with a prospect merely of splendid misery . Generally speak- ing , iu India the officers make the best husbands ; for they are fre- quently young , and uninjured by the climate , and are the best dis- posed to ...
... hope of com- fort , and with a prospect merely of splendid misery . Generally speak- ing , iu India the officers make the best husbands ; for they are fre- quently young , and uninjured by the climate , and are the best dis- posed to ...
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... hope of one day recovering it , and this hope supported her spirits . She had a genius for taking like- nesses , and she availed herself of this talent , which her husband knew nothing of , to procure a portrait of him , the possession ...
... hope of one day recovering it , and this hope supported her spirits . She had a genius for taking like- nesses , and she availed herself of this talent , which her husband knew nothing of , to procure a portrait of him , the possession ...
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... quitted business , and retired into Sackville - street . hope you consider Sackville - street quite out of the beat of the ordi- " nary vulgar . I Sir James , Oh , certainly ! Your || of E 2 DIALOGUES OF THE LIVING . 27.
... quitted business , and retired into Sackville - street . hope you consider Sackville - street quite out of the beat of the ordi- " nary vulgar . I Sir James , Oh , certainly ! Your || of E 2 DIALOGUES OF THE LIVING . 27.
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Página 88 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Página 223 - It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned ; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter ; and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations.
Página 203 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-inlaw against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Página 195 - So like an arrow swift he flew Shot by an archer strong, So did he fly — which brings me to The middle of my song.
Página 195 - His horse, who never in that sort Had handled been before, What thing upon his back had got Did wonder more and more.
Página 222 - The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal...
Página 222 - By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it.
Página 222 - But these are poor and narrow views of its importance. It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity.
Página 237 - M'Namara, the gentleman who was sent to him, who has a natural eloquence, and an excellent understanding, urged the most cogent reasons, and used all the arts of persuasion, to induce him to part with his mistress, and even proceeded so far as to assure him, according to his instructions...
Página 236 - When he (Charles Edward) was in Scotland, he had a mistress whose name was Walkinshaw, and whose sister was at that time, and is still, housekeeper at Leicester House. Some years after he was released from his prison, and conducted out of France, he sent for this girl, who soon acquired such a dominion over him, that she was acquainted with all his schemes, and trusted with his most secret correspondence. As soon as this was known in England, all those persons of distinction who were attached to...