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... Letter 3-15-04 , plaintiff to defendant 25 Letter 3-16-04 , defendant to plaintiff 26 Letter 3-19-04 , plaintiff to defendant 27 Letter 3-20-04 , plaintiff to defendant 28 Letter 3-24-04 , plaintiff to defendant 29 Letter 4-9-04 ...
... Letter 3-15-04 , plaintiff to defendant 25 Letter 3-16-04 , defendant to plaintiff 26 Letter 3-19-04 , plaintiff to defendant 27 Letter 3-20-04 , plaintiff to defendant 28 Letter 3-24-04 , plaintiff to defendant 29 Letter 4-9-04 ...
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... LETTERS TO C***, ON THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS . Letter I . Letter II . Letter III . Letter IV . Letter V . Letter VI 10. Letter VII 11. Letter VIII Glossary Further Readings Bibliography Index 28 34 39 39 44 49 S7 67 77 89 10S 119 ...
... LETTERS TO C***, ON THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS . Letter I . Letter II . Letter III . Letter IV . Letter V . Letter VI 10. Letter VII 11. Letter VIII Glossary Further Readings Bibliography Index 28 34 39 39 44 49 S7 67 77 89 10S 119 ...
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... Letter Writers had . Arts of Correspondence absorbed so many thematic and structural elements of Complete Letter Writers that the term Letter Writer often appeared in their titles too . For instance , not content with listing the ...
... Letter Writers had . Arts of Correspondence absorbed so many thematic and structural elements of Complete Letter Writers that the term Letter Writer often appeared in their titles too . For instance , not content with listing the ...
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George Borrow Thomas Wise. Letter. VII. To. Mary. Borrow. 53aPall Mall. [1848] Dear Carreta, I hope you received my last letter written on Tuesday. I am glad that I came to London. I find myself much the better for having done so, I was ...
George Borrow Thomas Wise. Letter. VII. To. Mary. Borrow. 53aPall Mall. [1848] Dear Carreta, I hope you received my last letter written on Tuesday. I am glad that I came to London. I find myself much the better for having done so, I was ...
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... Letter from E. Cooke , Esqre . , to Lord Caledon Proclamation by the Earl of Caledon . Appointment of Deputy Landdrost of Tulbagh Letter from Viscount Castlereagh to the Earl of Caledon Letter from the Earl of Caledon to Viscount ...
... Letter from E. Cooke , Esqre . , to Lord Caledon Proclamation by the Earl of Caledon . Appointment of Deputy Landdrost of Tulbagh Letter from Viscount Castlereagh to the Earl of Caledon Letter from the Earl of Caledon to Viscount ...
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Page 264 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 273 - Governments, in the name of those nations, do promise to each other that they will endeavor, in the most sincere and earnest manner, to settle the differences so arising, and to preserve the state of peace and friendship in which the two countries are now placing themselves, using, for this end, mutual representations and pacific negotiations.
Page 237 - But the noble Mexic women still their holy task pursued, Through that long, dark night of sorrow, worn and faint and lacking food ; Over weak and suffering brothers, with a tender care they hung, And the dying foeman blessed them in a strange and Northern tongue.
Page 71 - It is expected that, in selecting the establishment for your troops, you will approach as near the boundary line — the Rio Grande — as prudence will dictate. With this view the President desires that your position, for a part of your forces at least, should be west of the river Nueces.
Page 5 - If that the heavens do not their visible spirits Send quickly down to tame these vile offences, It will come, Humanity must perforce prey on itself, Like monsters of the deep.
Page 237 - Spake the mournful Mexic woman, as she laid him with her dead, And turned to soothe the living, and bind the wounds which bled. Look forth once more, Ximena! "Like a cloud before the wind...
Page 264 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 221 - Then if they die unprovided, no more is the King guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own.
Page 13 - Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys...
Page 129 - Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.