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... persons of marked character . Rob- ert Smith , the father , was a man of curious talents and impulses , with a passion for foreign travel , and a mania , not a little destruc- tive to his finances , for building and altering country ...
... persons of marked character . Rob- ert Smith , the father , was a man of curious talents and impulses , with a passion for foreign travel , and a mania , not a little destruc- tive to his finances , for building and altering country ...
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... persons were , on one occasion , probably an average one , present . The portrait of Bunch , that important portion of the Foston . family , is immortal ; a sketch from reality equal to the imagina- tion of Dickens . Mrs. Marcet , the ...
... persons were , on one occasion , probably an average one , present . The portrait of Bunch , that important portion of the Foston . family , is immortal ; a sketch from reality equal to the imagina- tion of Dickens . Mrs. Marcet , the ...
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... persons of superior station , surveying , with heartfelt sympathy , the cares and enjoyments of life on a lower level . Hodge had always , in Sydney Smith , a friend , who understood him , and when it was threatened that Hodge's beer ...
... persons of superior station , surveying , with heartfelt sympathy , the cares and enjoyments of life on a lower level . Hodge had always , in Sydney Smith , a friend , who understood him , and when it was threatened that Hodge's beer ...
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... persons of independent incomes , who thus supply the gen- eral deficiency of means . Destroy these glittering emoluments , and the ground will be occupied by inferior men , low , badly edu- cated , and fanatical . " You will have a set ...
... persons of independent incomes , who thus supply the gen- eral deficiency of means . Destroy these glittering emoluments , and the ground will be occupied by inferior men , low , badly edu- cated , and fanatical . " You will have a set ...
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... person to whom I have given it ; and I must also tell you , that I am sure he will appoint his curate . ( A general silence and dejection . ) It is a very odd coincidence , ' I added , that the gentleman I have selected is a namesake of ...
... person to whom I have given it ; and I must also tell you , that I am sure he will appoint his curate . ( A general silence and dejection . ) It is a very odd coincidence , ' I added , that the gentleman I have selected is a namesake of ...
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Page 188 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road — and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 190 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue...
Page 310 - In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused. Mrs. Partington's spirit was up ; but I need not tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop, or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.
Page 188 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel. His virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 397 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 64 - Russell; but his worst failure is that he is utterly ignorant of all moral fear; there is nothing he would not undertake. I believe he would perform the operation for the stone - build St. Peter's - or assume (with or without ten minutes...
Page 89 - With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room.
Page 188 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man — taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health — on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal — on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice— on the brass nails of the coffin, and ihe ribands of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 187 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man. Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health...
Page 431 - His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.