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Page 85
... effect of encouraging our insatiable enemies , in place of mitigating their fanatical ferocity . The oblivion which our writers have cast in charity over the first flagrant iniquities of your Church has been misunderstood by your ...
... effect of encouraging our insatiable enemies , in place of mitigating their fanatical ferocity . The oblivion which our writers have cast in charity over the first flagrant iniquities of your Church has been misunderstood by your ...
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... effects remind us of the cause , and as the portrait recalls the familiar features of the original . Such was Mary from the moment of her presentation in the temple . And now , my dear sister , the great question for you to consider on ...
... effects remind us of the cause , and as the portrait recalls the familiar features of the original . Such was Mary from the moment of her presentation in the temple . And now , my dear sister , the great question for you to consider on ...
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... effect of the small wires tinkling under the deep tones of the bass fully realized the picture of the harpers drawn by Cambrensis , and filled with wonder and delight those who had the good fortune to hear him . To his enchanting ...
... effect of the small wires tinkling under the deep tones of the bass fully realized the picture of the harpers drawn by Cambrensis , and filled with wonder and delight those who had the good fortune to hear him . To his enchanting ...
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... effect of female beauty , so the unadornment of Irish melody is its sweetest charm ; it is lost and unadmired in the cum- brous apparel of complex harmonization . And , indeed , to an Irishman what music sounds so sweetly as the simple ...
... effect of female beauty , so the unadornment of Irish melody is its sweetest charm ; it is lost and unadmired in the cum- brous apparel of complex harmonization . And , indeed , to an Irishman what music sounds so sweetly as the simple ...
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... effect is grievously marred by being sung in a foreign tongue , like the hard , unmelodious English . This we can never un- derstand , for while the English has become to us a mother tongue , our own appears harsh , unmusical , nay to ...
... effect is grievously marred by being sung in a foreign tongue , like the hard , unmelodious English . This we can never un- derstand , for while the English has become to us a mother tongue , our own appears harsh , unmusical , nay to ...
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Page 145 - He poured, to lord and lady gay, The unpremeditated lay: Old times were changed, old manners gone; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime.
Page 150 - DEAR Harp of my country ! in darkness I found thee, The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thee long, When proudly, my own Island Harp ! I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song...
Page 786 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has subverted; whose properties he has destroyed; whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.
Page 873 - Let no man dare, when I am dead, to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence...
Page 785 - I believe, my lords, that the sun, in his beneficent progress round the world, does not behold a more glorious sight than that of men, separated from a remote people by the material bounds and barriers of nature, united by the bond of a social and moral community; all the Commons of England resenting, as their own, the indignities and cruelties, that are offered to all the people of India.
Page 60 - And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Page 611 - Has he completely done ? He was unparliamentary from the beginning to the end of his speech. There was scarce a word he uttered that was not a violation of the privileges of the House; but I did not call him to order — why? because the limited talents of some men render it impossible for them to be severe without being unparliamentary. But before I sit down I shall show him how to be severe and parliamentary at the same time.
Page 874 - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world - it is the charity of its silence ! Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Page 762 - ... cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Page 755 - I stood near him ; and his face, to use the expression of the Scripture of the first martyr, ' his face was as if it had been the face of an angel.' I do not know how others feel, but if I had stood in that situation, I never would have exchanged it for all that kings in their profusion could bestow.