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... better answered , when we found that year after year desperate robberies and murders were com- mitted as frequently as ever , and that criminals treated the idea of death with levity and scorn . Every possible expe- dient should be had ...
... better answered , when we found that year after year desperate robberies and murders were com- mitted as frequently as ever , and that criminals treated the idea of death with levity and scorn . Every possible expe- dient should be had ...
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... better mo- tives for your actions than the mere sanction of custom , I appeal to you on behalf of humanity and religion , and feel confident that the justice of the cause will ensure your zealous support . ' Such was Mr. Bright's first ...
... better mo- tives for your actions than the mere sanction of custom , I appeal to you on behalf of humanity and religion , and feel confident that the justice of the cause will ensure your zealous support . ' Such was Mr. Bright's first ...
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... better wages , better food , and fewer hours of labour . There is , in fact , no act of the legislature to which we could point which has done so much for the comfort and improve- ment of the working classes as the repeal of the Corn ...
... better wages , better food , and fewer hours of labour . There is , in fact , no act of the legislature to which we could point which has done so much for the comfort and improve- ment of the working classes as the repeal of the Corn ...
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... better than cure . The speaker then said he felt convinced that grave calamities were impending over the country , unless rep- resentatives were sent to Parliament to support the principles which he had been advocating . ' I confidently ...
... better than cure . The speaker then said he felt convinced that grave calamities were impending over the country , unless rep- resentatives were sent to Parliament to support the principles which he had been advocating . ' I confidently ...
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... better state of things in the country , and ensure just and im- partial government . He was no enemy of Sir Robert Peel ; he only spoke of him in his capacity of Prime Minister . With regard to the coal duty , the candidate observed ...
... better state of things in the country , and ensure just and im- partial government . He was no enemy of Sir Robert Peel ; he only spoke of him in his capacity of Prime Minister . With regard to the coal duty , the candidate observed ...
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Page 68 - I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Page 363 - What feign'd submission swore : ease would recant Vows made in pain as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Page 13 - Old man ! there is no power in holy men, Nor charm in prayer — nor purifying form Of penitence — nor outward look — nor fast — Nor agony — nor, greater than all these, The innate tortures of that deep despair, Which is remorse without the fear of hell, But all in all sufficient to itself Would make a hell of heaven— can exorcise From out the unbounded spirit, the quick sense Of its own sins, wrongs, sufferance, and revenge Upon itself; there is no future pang Can deal that justice on...
Page 45 - A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Page 111 - For the needy shall not always be forgotten : the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Page 18 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Page 131 - ... they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Page 289 - Aaron's breast— from which to take counsel, but we have the unchangeable and eternal principles of the moral law to guide us, and only so far as we walk by that guidance can we be permanently a great nation, or our people a happy people.
Page 279 - Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers: And such she was; — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers.
Page 126 - Fit retribution ! Gaul may champ the bit, And foam in fetters, — but is Earth more free? Did nations combat to make One submit; Or league to teach all kings true sovereignty? What! shall reviving Thraldom again be The patch'd-up idol of enlighten'd days? Shall we, who struck the Lion down, shall we Pay the Wolf homage?