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Pagina 6
... stand , he would have no hesitation in facing it . Indeed , to preach peace on the merely personal ground that the King is not equipped for the rough and tumble of our politics , is an undertaking to which no one with any knowledge of ...
... stand , he would have no hesitation in facing it . Indeed , to preach peace on the merely personal ground that the King is not equipped for the rough and tumble of our politics , is an undertaking to which no one with any knowledge of ...
Pagina 11
... stand for safety and sanity . I see none - unless , in- deed , it be his Majesty , King George the Fifth . Sydney Brooks . If the President of the Republic were to die , Paris would say , " Dear me , how sad ! " and go about its busi ...
... stand for safety and sanity . I see none - unless , in- deed , it be his Majesty , King George the Fifth . Sydney Brooks . If the President of the Republic were to die , Paris would say , " Dear me , how sad ! " and go about its busi ...
Pagina 12
... stand - offish family . The French did not want it ; they would just as well have accepted ( po- litically , and only politically , no doubt ) the hand of Germany a few years be- fore ; they deliberately allowed Eng- land , through her ...
... stand - offish family . The French did not want it ; they would just as well have accepted ( po- litically , and only politically , no doubt ) the hand of Germany a few years be- fore ; they deliberately allowed Eng- land , through her ...
Pagina 17
... stand aside and let circumstance go by . Her reserve was a simple strength and directness of soul in the front of life . Nanna awaited questions in vain . SI- lence attended to her needs with grave beneficence and uttered no unnecessary ...
... stand aside and let circumstance go by . Her reserve was a simple strength and directness of soul in the front of life . Nanna awaited questions in vain . SI- lence attended to her needs with grave beneficence and uttered no unnecessary ...
Pagina 22
... stand alone ; he could find something of his own level in the human nature around . Silver was aware of these things . On market days , when the business at Kendal was over , on the homeward journey there would be coarse scenes in the ...
... stand alone ; he could find something of his own level in the human nature around . Silver was aware of these things . On market days , when the business at Kendal was over , on the homeward journey there would be coarse scenes in the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 115 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Pagina 56 - And bade me creep past. No ! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements...
Pagina 361 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.
Pagina 362 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Pagina 21 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Pagina 712 - Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long, dark, curled locks streaming down over his laced buffcoat, and his left hand always on his right spuleblade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.
Pagina 371 - I hear of poets' fury* tell, But (God wot) wot not what they mean by it: And this I swear by blackest brook of hell, I am no pick-purse of another's wit. How falls it then, that with so smooth an ease My thoughts I speak, and what I speak doth flow In verse, and that my verse best wits doth please? Guess we the cause: "What, is it thus?
Pagina 712 - And mony, mony mair were coming and ganging, a' as busy in their vocation as if they had been alive. Sir Robert Redgauntlet, in the midst of a' this fearful riot, cried, wi' a voice like thunder, on Steenie Piper to come to the board-head where he was sitting, his legs stretched out before him, and swathed up with flannel, with his holster pistols aside him, while the great broadsword rested against...
Pagina 712 - There was the fierce Middleton, and the dissolute Rothes, and the crafty Lauderdale; and Dalyell, with his bald head and a beard to his girdle; and Earlshall, with Cameron's blude on his hand; and wild Bonshaw, that tied blessed Mr. Cargill's limbs till the blude sprung; and Dumbarton Douglas, the twiceturned traitor baith to country and king.
Pagina 706 - I am wishing ill to little Harry, or to the babe that's yet to be born — God forbid, and make them kind to the poor, and better folk than their father ! — And now, ride e'en your ways ; for these are the last words ye'll ever hear Meg Merrilies speak, and this is the last reise that I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan.