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... felt himself perfectly unable to do as prudence would have dictated - seek safety in an abrupt exit from the room ! Mr. course of time was perfectly realized . Trafford returned home in high spirits ; he had made a good morning's work ...
... felt himself perfectly unable to do as prudence would have dictated - seek safety in an abrupt exit from the room ! Mr. course of time was perfectly realized . Trafford returned home in high spirits ; he had made a good morning's work ...
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... felt his blood run cold , and an unac- countable horror seize him . Cromwell inquired how he felt ? He replied , that in the whole course of his life , in all the battles in which he had been engaged , in all the dangers he had ever ...
... felt his blood run cold , and an unac- countable horror seize him . Cromwell inquired how he felt ? He replied , that in the whole course of his life , in all the battles in which he had been engaged , in all the dangers he had ever ...
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... felt compelled to follow him . When he came to his senses he was two miles from where he met the man . The man who rescued the boy could get no answer from him . He had appeared quite idiotic till he succeeded in restor- DISAPPOINTMENTS ...
... felt compelled to follow him . When he came to his senses he was two miles from where he met the man . The man who rescued the boy could get no answer from him . He had appeared quite idiotic till he succeeded in restor- DISAPPOINTMENTS ...
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... felt sure that my choice was proof against all criticism . The following day I called at a friend's house , and took my child with me . We were heartily welcomed , and when we rose to return home , the lady asked me : ~ " But , tell me ...
... felt sure that my choice was proof against all criticism . The following day I called at a friend's house , and took my child with me . We were heartily welcomed , and when we rose to return home , the lady asked me : ~ " But , tell me ...
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... felt a just indignation , and resolved to remove immediately . We found a house which very well suited us , though it was not yet quite finished . We preferred it , particularly on account of its romantic situation . It was on a ...
... felt a just indignation , and resolved to remove immediately . We found a house which very well suited us , though it was not yet quite finished . We preferred it , particularly on account of its romantic situation . It was on a ...
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Page 148 - 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 148 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 148 - 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.
Page 6 - Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Page 171 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days...
Page 147 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 317 - He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the Doctor did not much like the project As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing.
Page 171 - And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cells.
Page 220 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and -with songs, with tabret and with harp...
Page 148 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this — That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.