Littell's Living Age, Volume 75Living Age Company Incorporated, 1862 - American periodicals |
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... never once conceived of such a thing as a call to part with any con- siderable part of their substance . Such per- sons gave £ 1 to the Patriotic Fund , just as they do every year to the nearest Dispensary : such persons would subscribe ...
... never once conceived of such a thing as a call to part with any con- siderable part of their substance . Such per- sons gave £ 1 to the Patriotic Fund , just as they do every year to the nearest Dispensary : such persons would subscribe ...
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... never to swim across its track , no matter how distant the animal may be , for the creature can cast forth its envenomed filaments to an almost inter- minable length , and even when separated from the parent body , each filament , or ...
... never to swim across its track , no matter how distant the animal may be , for the creature can cast forth its envenomed filaments to an almost inter- minable length , and even when separated from the parent body , each filament , or ...
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... never quite understand . " We must not let the boy remain in debt ; it would be such a disgrace to the family . " " It is not the remaining in debt , but the incurring of it , which is the real disgrace to Ascott and the family ...
... never quite understand . " We must not let the boy remain in debt ; it would be such a disgrace to the family . " " It is not the remaining in debt , but the incurring of it , which is the real disgrace to Ascott and the family ...
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... never a prophet in his own country . " The Stowbury people will never believe how clever I am . Only , it is a useless sort of cleverness , I fear . Greek , Latin , and mathematics are no good to infants under seven , such as Stowbury ...
... never a prophet in his own country . " The Stowbury people will never believe how clever I am . Only , it is a useless sort of cleverness , I fear . Greek , Latin , and mathematics are no good to infants under seven , such as Stowbury ...
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... never thought of anything but of being taken home at once by their boy . glad to see them . He handed them all into the cab - even Elizabeth , though whispering " I wonder if we shall ever go back again , meanwhile to his Aunt Hilary ...
... never thought of anything but of being taken home at once by their boy . glad to see them . He handed them all into the cab - even Elizabeth , though whispering " I wonder if we shall ever go back again , meanwhile to his Aunt Hilary ...
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Ascott Aunt beauty believe better bonnie pink called Carlingford character Church color dark dear death door doubt dress Duke of Orleans Edinburgh Review Elizabeth Elizabeth Hand England English essays Eugénie de Guérin eyes face fact faith feel France French friends girl give hand heard heart hope Johanna kind king knew labor lady light live London look Lord Lord Macaulay marriage means ment mind minister Miss Balquidder Miss Hilary Miss Leaf mistress mother nature ness never once passion perhaps Perleberg person poor prison Robert Lyon round Russell Square seems Selina sister slave slave power slavery soul Stowbury strange sure Susan sweet tell thing thought tion took Tozer true truth turned Vincent water-babies whole woman women wonder words write young
Popular passages
Page 202 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 84 - And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening : knowing that your Master also is in heaven ; neither is there respect of persons with Him.
Page 310 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 295 - It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 84 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
Page 237 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 128 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Page 431 - Will you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word...
Page 450 - When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away; Young blood must have its course lad, And every dog his day. When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down; Creep home, and take your place there, The spent and maimed among; God grant you find one face there, You loved when all was young.
Page 84 - Christ ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart ; with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men : knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.