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... the notion which we all love to cherish , that English valour is invincible . Two other lines I remember , and only two ; but they are worth remembering , from the fact that they bore Five Minutes to spare . 5 came but once a year,' ...
... the notion which we all love to cherish , that English valour is invincible . Two other lines I remember , and only two ; but they are worth remembering , from the fact that they bore Five Minutes to spare . 5 came but once a year,' ...
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... English and a New Zealand Christmas must be very complete . Midsummer and midwinter suggest to his mind thoughts of a very opposite character . He fancies - it may be only fancy that the outward aspect of things , Nature in her summer ...
... English and a New Zealand Christmas must be very complete . Midsummer and midwinter suggest to his mind thoughts of a very opposite character . He fancies - it may be only fancy that the outward aspect of things , Nature in her summer ...
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... English travellers . Deep and clear waters there are indeed , but you must be content to buffet your way to them through ' many a mile of foaming filth ; ' but the unhappy swimmer , if he lack courage , patience , perseverance , may ...
... English travellers . Deep and clear waters there are indeed , but you must be content to buffet your way to them through ' many a mile of foaming filth ; ' but the unhappy swimmer , if he lack courage , patience , perseverance , may ...
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... English colonists . At the same time Canada had been recently conquered from France by General Wolfe , though not formally ceded to England till 1763. British Guiana was taken from the Dutch in 1796 , and finally annexed in 1803 ...
... English colonists . At the same time Canada had been recently conquered from France by General Wolfe , though not formally ceded to England till 1763. British Guiana was taken from the Dutch in 1796 , and finally annexed in 1803 ...
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... English , the other in Latin . The former was , perhaps , when it first appeared the richest specimen of English prose - writing in existence ; severely simple , full , nervous , and majestic . Scholars have awarded equal praise to his ...
... English , the other in Latin . The former was , perhaps , when it first appeared the richest specimen of English prose - writing in existence ; severely simple , full , nervous , and majestic . Scholars have awarded equal praise to his ...
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Seite 292 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live, are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Seite 378 - But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scripture, Tell them, that God bids us do good for evil : And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Seite 139 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Seite 389 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Seite 145 - Sometimes a distant sail, gliding along the edge of the ocean, would be another theme of idle speculation. How interesting this fragment of a world, hastening to rejoin the great mass of existence!
Seite 212 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Seite 377 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad.' ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in, stones, and good in every thing.
Seite 173 - I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand, — I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: — Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it escape; go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Seite 145 - ... interchange of blessings, pouring into the sterile regions of the north all the luxuries of the south ; has diffused the light of knowledge and the charities of cultivated life ; and has thus bound together those scattered portions of the human race, between which nature seemed to have thrown an insurmountable barrier.
Seite 77 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.