Littell's Living Age, Volume 27Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1850 |
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... mind , dearie ; never mind ; you'll be Countess May yet , and wear your diamond coro- net , and make sunshine round wherever you go , father's family . " My father entertained a profound respect for Lady Morley's opinion , and he was ...
... mind , dearie ; never mind ; you'll be Countess May yet , and wear your diamond coro- net , and make sunshine round wherever you go , father's family . " My father entertained a profound respect for Lady Morley's opinion , and he was ...
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... mind , and abhor me for them ? The wailing winds were sweeping round the gables , and waving the dark tree - tops like funereal plumes , seeming to my excited imagination as if innumerable wings were swiftly rushing past - good and ...
... mind , and abhor me for them ? The wailing winds were sweeping round the gables , and waving the dark tree - tops like funereal plumes , seeming to my excited imagination as if innumerable wings were swiftly rushing past - good and ...
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... mind . " And in this , alas ! I was able too fully to corroborate my nurse . 66 66 This was the occasion of Mrs. Edmondstone's marked coldness to that lady at Edenside ; for a suspicion of the reality had never crossed her pure mind ...
... mind . " And in this , alas ! I was able too fully to corroborate my nurse . 66 66 This was the occasion of Mrs. Edmondstone's marked coldness to that lady at Edenside ; for a suspicion of the reality had never crossed her pure mind ...
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... mind ; and better even for Basil to suffer a thousand disappointments than marry a woman whose days would be passed in unavailing re- morse . With these reflections there came that sense of guilt to which I have already alluded- the ...
... mind ; and better even for Basil to suffer a thousand disappointments than marry a woman whose days would be passed in unavailing re- morse . With these reflections there came that sense of guilt to which I have already alluded- the ...
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... mind , and disturbing her last hours ; and , add - gratefully he received it ? ing that she had been high - spirited and unbending when in health , Basil did not draw an inference favorable to the poor man's wedded felicity . However ...
... mind , and disturbing her last hours ; and , add - gratefully he received it ? ing that she had been high - spirited and unbending when in health , Basil did not draw an inference favorable to the poor man's wedded felicity . However ...
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Page 240 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 350 - Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God who yet saw not all things.
Page 353 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 354 - And every denomination of Christians, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good subjects of the commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law: and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law.
Page 325 - To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height; To hear each other's whisper'd speech; Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray; To lend our hearts and spirits wholly To the influence of mild-minded melancholy...
Page 68 - The noise subsided, and he was asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him.
Page 354 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Page 13 - The one has suggested to me that beyond and above all that is visible to man there may be fields of creation which sweep immeasurably along, and carry the impress of the Almighty's hand...
Page 353 - Eliguntur in iisdem conciliis et principes, qui jura per pagos vicosque reddunt. Centeni singulis ex plebe comites, consilium simul et auctoritas, adsunt.
Page 354 - It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of thé universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience ; or for his religious...