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... French milliners and dress - makers . We think these precious foreign commodities are not even subject to a protecting duty on being imported . They , therefore , naturally enough , are very plentiful in the metropolis . We cannot , do ...
... French milliners and dress - makers . We think these precious foreign commodities are not even subject to a protecting duty on being imported . They , therefore , naturally enough , are very plentiful in the metropolis . We cannot , do ...
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... French border , and the Bidaossa once more lay beneath us . The day on which my present ex- cursion was made , chanced to be one of the few lovely days with which , during that severe winter , we were favoured . The air was frosty , but ...
... French border , and the Bidaossa once more lay beneath us . The day on which my present ex- cursion was made , chanced to be one of the few lovely days with which , during that severe winter , we were favoured . The air was frosty , but ...
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... French gentry who prefer the quiet of the country to the bustle and hurry of Paris . Some of these chateaux were , moreover , exceedingly elegant in their appearance , and indicated from that , as well as from their extent , that they ...
... French gentry who prefer the quiet of the country to the bustle and hurry of Paris . Some of these chateaux were , moreover , exceedingly elegant in their appearance , and indicated from that , as well as from their extent , that they ...
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... French lines only by an imaginary boundary of hedges and paling . So exposed , in- deed , was the spot , that I received po- sitive orders to abandon it as soon as darkness should set in , and to retire across the hollow to the high ...
... French lines only by an imaginary boundary of hedges and paling . So exposed , in- deed , was the spot , that I received po- sitive orders to abandon it as soon as darkness should set in , and to retire across the hollow to the high ...
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... French officers , and watching the progress of an old woman who was coming towards our lines . She held large bottle in her hand , which she lifted up to attract my notice , and continued to move forward , gabbling loudly all the while ...
... French officers , and watching the progress of an old woman who was coming towards our lines . She held large bottle in her hand , which she lifted up to attract my notice , and continued to move forward , gabbling loudly all the while ...
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Page 131 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Page 174 - As he would have taken a ball in his breast,' replied Lord George. 'For he opened his arms, exclaiming wildly, as he paced up and down the apartment during a few minutes: "O God! it is all over!
Page 479 - Where now thy might, which all those kings subdued ? No martial myriads muster in thy gate ; No suppliant nations in thy temple wait : No...
Page 551 - Our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his Church, to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences : and by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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Page 359 - Little he deem'd when with his Indian band He through the wilds set forth upon his way, A Poet then unborn, and in a land Which had proscribed his order, should one day Take up from thence his moralizing lay, And shape a song that, with no fiction drest, Should to his worth its grateful tribute pay, And sinking deep in many an English breast, Foster that faith divine that keeps the heart at rest.
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Page 479 - While suns unblest their angry lustre fling, And wayworn pilgrims seek the scanty spring ? Where now thy pomp which kings with envy...
Page 471 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, — the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep, who can.
Page 547 - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.