The life and times of the right hon. John Bright, Volume 1 |
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... give a favourable impression , nor would a stroll through its streets predispose strangers to consider it a pleasant town to dwell in . They might , however , discover that with its 15,000 houses lying in a valley on each side of the ...
... give a favourable impression , nor would a stroll through its streets predispose strangers to consider it a pleasant town to dwell in . They might , however , discover that with its 15,000 houses lying in a valley on each side of the ...
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... give the members a good oppor- tunity for self - examination . Their tried and sore - fretted spirits , harassed by the noise and turmoil of the week , experience a refreshment under the influence of the holy calm and religious ...
... give the members a good oppor- tunity for self - examination . Their tried and sore - fretted spirits , harassed by the noise and turmoil of the week , experience a refreshment under the influence of the holy calm and religious ...
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... give himself up to business more unreservedly than ever , and he became one of the most familiar figures in the Manchester market . He suffered much from the loss he had sustained , but there was one above all others whose genuine ...
... give himself up to business more unreservedly than ever , and he became one of the most familiar figures in the Manchester market . He suffered much from the loss he had sustained , but there was one above all others whose genuine ...
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... give the reader an idea of their charity , a single instance will be sufficient . An old stone - breaker , at that time employed in Falinge Road , was bereaved of one of his children , and was so poor that he could not pay for a coffin ...
... give the reader an idea of their charity , a single instance will be sufficient . An old stone - breaker , at that time employed in Falinge Road , was bereaved of one of his children , and was so poor that he could not pay for a coffin ...
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... give an old pair of boots to a person in distress , but present him with an order for a new pair . A reformed drunkard , a woollen weaver , who resided near the National School , Redcross Street , once got up a subscription for the ...
... give an old pair of boots to a person in distress , but present him with an order for a new pair . A reformed drunkard , a woollen weaver , who resided near the National School , Redcross Street , once got up a subscription for the ...
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The Life and Times of the Right Hon. John Bright William Robertson (Reporter ) No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 183 - As the sun, Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events. And in today already walks tomorrow.
Page 198 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 339 - I shall leave a name sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot it is to labour and to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brow, when 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 21 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 102 - Fellow-townsmen, I look on that old building, that venerable building, for its antiquity gives it a venerable air, with a feeling of pain. I behold it as a witness of ages gone by, as one of the numberless monuments of the piety or zeal of our ancestors, as a connecting link between this and former ages. I could look on it with a feeling of affection, did I not know that it forms the centre of that source of discord with which our neighbourhood has for years been afflicted, and did it not seem the...
Page 156 - I see the right, and I approve it too ; Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.
Page 284 - Cornlaw, two millions of human beings have been added to the population of the United Kingdom. The table is here as before; the food is spread in about the same quantity as before; but two millions of fresh guests have arrived, and that circumstance makes the question a serious one, both for the Government...
Page 74 - Adieu, adieu ! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue ; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, And shrieks the wild sea-mew. Yon sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight ; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native Land — Good night...
Page 368 - Friends, in the fear of the Lord, and before this assembly, I take this my friend AB to be my wife, promising, through divine assistance, to be unto her a loving and faithful husband, until it shall please the Lord by death to separate us.
Page 193 - Safe in their barns these Sabine tillers sent Their brethren out to battle - why? for rent! Year after year they voted cent.