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... fact . It is by no means pretended that free schools are the new beneficence of to - day , or the peculiar privilege of New - York city . There is one free school in New - York- that under the care of the Collegiate Dutch Reformed ...
... fact . It is by no means pretended that free schools are the new beneficence of to - day , or the peculiar privilege of New - York city . There is one free school in New - York- that under the care of the Collegiate Dutch Reformed ...
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... fact a " ragged school , " having about one hundred scholars of a lower grade than usually attend the public schools . This has been in operation about two years , and is supported by the contributions of the congregation . There is ...
... fact a " ragged school , " having about one hundred scholars of a lower grade than usually attend the public schools . This has been in operation about two years , and is supported by the contributions of the congregation . There is ...
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... fact , though I don't know why , that it always takes two natives to carry a pig , even if it be only a week old . After an hour's pleasant ride , we brought up and dismounted at the hut of our enter- tainer , which , upon entering , we ...
... fact , though I don't know why , that it always takes two natives to carry a pig , even if it be only a week old . After an hour's pleasant ride , we brought up and dismounted at the hut of our enter- tainer , which , upon entering , we ...
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... fact , if you will pardon a free use of the vernacular , there is a grease - spot upon your remembrance of this dinner . Or , in the same way , and with the same kind of mental result , you can easily imagine the meats a little tough ...
... fact , if you will pardon a free use of the vernacular , there is a grease - spot upon your remembrance of this dinner . Or , in the same way , and with the same kind of mental result , you can easily imagine the meats a little tough ...
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... fact between the dinner and your fan- cy . The reason that the Barmecide feast in the Arabian Nights was so delicious is , simply , that the fancy of a hungry man was excited to the last degree by the pre- tence of exquisite viands ...
... fact between the dinner and your fan- cy . The reason that the Barmecide feast in the Arabian Nights was so delicious is , simply , that the fancy of a hungry man was excited to the last degree by the pre- tence of exquisite viands ...
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Page 433 - Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Page 389 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off ; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubin, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 496 - MONEY is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce, but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade : it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy.
Page 379 - It had bene a thing, we confesse, worthie to have bene wished, that the author himselfe had liv'd to have set forth and overseen his owne writings; but since it hath bin ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine...
Page 96 - That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.
Page 382 - To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.
Page 386 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 389 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly : if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We 'd jump the life to come.
Page 392 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 112 - The battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift, any more in worldly happiness than in other things.