The Metropolitan, Հատոր 39James Cochrane, 1844 |
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... MAUR had not been many minutes in his precarious retreat , ere the annoyance he felt was changed to dismay and extreme alarm for the imprudence he had been guilty of . The astrologer had thrown aside his mask , and disclosed features ...
... MAUR had not been many minutes in his precarious retreat , ere the annoyance he felt was changed to dismay and extreme alarm for the imprudence he had been guilty of . The astrologer had thrown aside his mask , and disclosed features ...
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... Maur had the leisure , though not often the courage , to venture a glance at the illus- trious pair . The Cardinal was about forty , well made , though not handsome , yet possessing passable features , smooth and unruffled by passion ...
... Maur had the leisure , though not often the courage , to venture a glance at the illus- trious pair . The Cardinal was about forty , well made , though not handsome , yet possessing passable features , smooth and unruffled by passion ...
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... Maur shrunk within himself at these words ; he could not misun- derstand their appliance . The queen demanded an explanation , upon which the Cardinal detailed the lawless proceeding of Gourville , as set forth in the complaint of the ...
... Maur shrunk within himself at these words ; he could not misun- derstand their appliance . The queen demanded an explanation , upon which the Cardinal detailed the lawless proceeding of Gourville , as set forth in the complaint of the ...
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... Maur , who found his situation one of torture , could endure it no longer . It was but a few steps to the door of the chamber - a very few paces more to the parterre , and there stood the little staircase by which he might escape to the ...
... Maur , who found his situation one of torture , could endure it no longer . It was but a few steps to the door of the chamber - a very few paces more to the parterre , and there stood the little staircase by which he might escape to the ...
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... Maur from his position was powerless - his head prone on the floor , he could only cast back his eyes in the hope of ... Maur , son of Etienne St. Maur of Dauphiny , who fell a victim to the anger of the Cardinal Richelieu , through his ...
... Maur from his position was powerless - his head prone on the floor , he could only cast back his eyes in the hope of ... Maur , son of Etienne St. Maur of Dauphiny , who fell a victim to the anger of the Cardinal Richelieu , through his ...
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Էջ 17 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Էջ 376 - The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then, let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish, else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one.
Էջ 17 - Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Էջ 376 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Էջ 145 - I chide the world-without-end hour, Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the bitterness of absence sour, When you have bid your servant once adieu: Nor dare I question with my jealous thought, Where you may be , or your affairs suppose...
Էջ 246 - THE healthy know not of their health, but only the sick : this is the Physician's Aphorism; and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. We may say, it holds no less in moral, intellectual, political, poetical, than in merely corporeal therapeutics; that wherever, or in what shape soever, powers of the sort which can be named vital are at work, herein lies the test of their working right or working wrong.
Էջ 27 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Էջ 122 - They should neither have a precedency or priority of the other ; but that prayer and preaching, being equally useful, might agree like brethren, and have an equal honour and estimation.
Էջ 47 - It's no in books, it's no in lear, To make us truly blest : If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest...
Էջ 87 - Voyages round the World, from the Death of Captain Cook to the present Time...