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... received an appointment through his uncle , Major Cowper , as reading clerk to the com- mittees of the house of lords , he seemed destined to ease and competence ; but his natural timid- ity and nervousness interposed . He shrank from ...
... received an appointment through his uncle , Major Cowper , as reading clerk to the com- mittees of the house of lords , he seemed destined to ease and competence ; but his natural timid- ity and nervousness interposed . He shrank from ...
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... received no answer . Threatened with arrest , he applied without an introduction to Edmund Burke , at whose door he left a simple and manly letter , and then calmed his agitation by walking Westminster bridge backward and forward ...
... received no answer . Threatened with arrest , he applied without an introduction to Edmund Burke , at whose door he left a simple and manly letter , and then calmed his agitation by walking Westminster bridge backward and forward ...
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... received with universal approbation , and was followed in 1810 by the " Borough , " and in 1812 by " Tales in Verse . " The latter years of Crabbe were occupied with the conscientious discharge of his duties to his parishioners of ...
... received with universal approbation , and was followed in 1810 by the " Borough , " and in 1812 by " Tales in Verse . " The latter years of Crabbe were occupied with the conscientious discharge of his duties to his parishioners of ...
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... received the command against the revolted slaves under Spartacus ; he rapidly raised 6 legions , and defeated Spartacus in a bloody battle on the river Silarus , in which that terrible enemy of Rome was slain . Crassus received an ...
... received the command against the revolted slaves under Spartacus ; he rapidly raised 6 legions , and defeated Spartacus in a bloody battle on the river Silarus , in which that terrible enemy of Rome was slain . Crassus received an ...
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... received him kindly , and invited him to work in his studio , an offer which Crawford accepted forthwith . For several years he labor- ed with an earnestness which excited in his friends mingled feelings of admiration and anx- iety . He ...
... received him kindly , and invited him to work in his studio , an offer which Crawford accepted forthwith . For several years he labor- ed with an earnestness which excited in his friends mingled feelings of admiration and anx- iety . He ...
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Էջ 320 - I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Էջ 195 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure : Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shall be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Էջ 319 - Certificates of discharge, however, granted under such a law, cannot be pleaded in bar of an action brought by a citizen of another State in the courts of the United States, or of any other State than that where the discharge was obtained...
Էջ 87 - If your majesty have a game to play, you must give us also the liberty to play ours.
Էջ 114 - Walking by the sea-side, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently remarked the appearance of a dark cloud, or, rather, very thick mist, hanging over the edge of the water, to the height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space, filled with young shrimps...
Էջ 280 - Take counsel, execute judgment; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; Hide the outcasts ; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Էջ 366 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Էջ 401 - I took it: — and in an hour, oh! heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me! That my pains had vanished was now a trifle in my eyes: — this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me — in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly revealed.
Էջ 15 - General courts-martial may consist of any number of officers from five to thirteen, inclusive; but they shall not consist of less than thirteen when that number can be convened without manifest injury to the service.
Էջ 63 - Crease must be in a line with the stumps; six feet eight inches in length; the Stumps in the centre, with a return crease at each end towards the Bowler, at right angles.