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... according to the temper of each man ; but on every countenance I read the same character of high determination . Some were kneeling by the fountain , and drinking with avidity ; others reclined along the ground ; and a few were leaning ...
... according to the temper of each man ; but on every countenance I read the same character of high determination . Some were kneeling by the fountain , and drinking with avidity ; others reclined along the ground ; and a few were leaning ...
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... according to the Roman Catholic and the Protestant rites . If any excuse or explanation can he found for this wretched weakness , this indifference to all warnings and facts , this dreadful indiscretion , it can only be in the insanity ...
... according to the Roman Catholic and the Protestant rites . If any excuse or explanation can he found for this wretched weakness , this indifference to all warnings and facts , this dreadful indiscretion , it can only be in the insanity ...
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... according to the pleasure of Buckingham , an ignorant young man , blinded by court favour , and carried away by passion . The most important and urgent business cannot induce this king to devote a day or even an hour to it , or to inter ...
... according to the pleasure of Buckingham , an ignorant young man , blinded by court favour , and carried away by passion . The most important and urgent business cannot induce this king to devote a day or even an hour to it , or to inter ...
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... according to the author's account , the prin- cipal features of the Moos'lim character are religious pride , hypo- crisy , and pharisaical ostentation . He has also observed of them , that they are remarkably inconsistent , in regard to ...
... according to the author's account , the prin- cipal features of the Moos'lim character are religious pride , hypo- crisy , and pharisaical ostentation . He has also observed of them , that they are remarkably inconsistent , in regard to ...
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... according to the opinion of some , as many concubine slaves as he may choose . But , though a man restrict himself to a single wife , he may change as often as he desires ; and there are certainly not many persons in Cairo who have not ...
... according to the opinion of some , as many concubine slaves as he may choose . But , though a man restrict himself to a single wife , he may change as often as he desires ; and there are certainly not many persons in Cairo who have not ...
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Página 243 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Página 262 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Página 293 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was; man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Página 245 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty : Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
Página 74 - ... the caverns of the deep. Silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end. What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the...
Página 562 - ... but it was not to be found. In his distress he looked down for it ; it was to be seen no more than to be felt. He stood confounded, and I took possession of his place ; nor did he ever recover it, or ever, I believe, suspect who was the author of his wrong. Often in after-life has the sight of him smote me as I passed by him ; and often have I resolved to make him some reparation ; but it ended in good resolutions.
Página 560 - I last night supped in Mr Walter Scott's. He has the most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw. He was reading a poem to his mother when I went in. I made him read on : it was the description of a shipwreck. His passion rose with the storm. He lifted his eyes and hands. 'There's the mast gone,' says he; 'crash it goes ! — they will all perish ! ' After his agitation, he turns to me. 'That is too melancholy,' says he; 'I had better read you something more amusing.
Página 74 - There was no trace by which the name of the ship could be ascertained. The wreck had evidently drifted about for many months ; clusters of shell-fish had fastened about it, and long sea-weeds flaunted at its sides. But where, thought I, is the crew ? Their struggle has long been over — they have gone down amidst the roar of the tempest — their bones lie whitening among the caverns of the deep ; silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end.
Página 560 - He has the most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw. He was reading a poem to his mother when I went in. I made him read on; it was the description of a shipwreck. His passion rose with the storm. He lifted his eyes and hands. ' There's the mast gone,' says he ; * crash it goes! — they will all perish!' After his agitation, he turns to me. ' That is too melancholy,' says he; ' I had better read you something more amusing.
Página 574 - ... house did not observe with perfect equanimity the novel usage to which her chintz was exposed. The Shepherd, however, remarked nothing of all this — dined heartily and drank freely, and, by jest, anecdote, and song, afforded plentiful merriment to the more civilized part of the company. As the liquor operated, his familiarity increased and strengthened ; from ' Mr. Scott,' he advanced to ' Sherra,' and thence to ' Scott,' 'Walter,' and 'Wattie,' — until, at supper, he [fairly convulsed the...