The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and InstructionJ. Limbird, 1848 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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... eyes of posterity by the impure neighbour- hood of so many perverse wretches ; and I rejoice to see the fury of the Catilines and Verres of my country tracing a profound line of demarcation between them and all honest men . In every ...
... eyes of posterity by the impure neighbour- hood of so many perverse wretches ; and I rejoice to see the fury of the Catilines and Verres of my country tracing a profound line of demarcation between them and all honest men . In every ...
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... eyes , pitiless as they are , on the horrid spectacle . " With the addition of calling him tiger , coward , & c . , the speech is made up of these words . We must recollect the man voted with him when he was alive . Carnot accuses him ...
... eyes , pitiless as they are , on the horrid spectacle . " With the addition of calling him tiger , coward , & c . , the speech is made up of these words . We must recollect the man voted with him when he was alive . Carnot accuses him ...
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... eyes the immediate consequence of the triumph of the coalesced kings , as this triumph seems to him imminent if it be not conquered by the bursting forth of the national anger and the fury of the multitude , he rests upon Ja- cobinism ...
... eyes the immediate consequence of the triumph of the coalesced kings , as this triumph seems to him imminent if it be not conquered by the bursting forth of the national anger and the fury of the multitude , he rests upon Ja- cobinism ...
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... eyes failed him , which in the trade he followed were much needed ; and then his general health grew feeble . He had thus been thrown out of employment , and fallen into poor circumstances . It had been only by the most rigid economy ...
... eyes failed him , which in the trade he followed were much needed ; and then his general health grew feeble . He had thus been thrown out of employment , and fallen into poor circumstances . It had been only by the most rigid economy ...
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... eye ; she pressed the children convulsively to her breast , imprinted a kiss s on the fore- head of her unhappy ... eyes on her friend , and after contemplating her for some moments in silence , she asked her what she had ever done ...
... eye ; she pressed the children convulsively to her breast , imprinted a kiss s on the fore- head of her unhappy ... eyes on her friend , and after contemplating her for some moments in silence , she asked her what she had ever done ...
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Página 158 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Página 160 - Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince ; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest ! Why does the drum come hither ? [March within.
Página 159 - Hath seal'd thee for herself; for thou hast been <» As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing, A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hath ta'en with equal thanks : and blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.
Página 56 - For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who hath subjected the same in hope ; Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Página 310 - Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Página 322 - Who flagged upon Bochastle's heath, Who shunned to stem the flooded Teith, For twice that day from shore to shore The gallant stag swam stoutly o'er. Few were the stragglers, following far, That reached the lake of Vennachar; And when the Brigg of Turk was won, The headmost horseman rode alone.
Página 156 - We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he, to-day that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England, now a-bed, Shall think themselves accurs'd, they were not here; And hold their manhoods cheap, while any speaks, That fought with us upon saint Crispin's day.
Página 132 - Philip thought (as many have thought before and since) that he had a right to do what he pleased with his own.
Página 235 - ... called wheaten flour, which the cooks do mingle with water, eggs, spice, and other tragical, magical enchantments, and then they put it by little and little into a frying-pan of boiling suet, where it makes a confused dismal hissing (like the...
Página 159 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.