Passages from the Life of Charles KnightG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874 - 480 páginas |
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... shillings per quarter ; but such was the effect of his conviction , that the price of oats fell from day to day till it came as low as seventeen shillings and sixpence . Such were the economic doctrines proclaimed sixty years ago in ...
... shillings per quarter ; but such was the effect of his conviction , that the price of oats fell from day to day till it came as low as seventeen shillings and sixpence . Such were the economic doctrines proclaimed sixty years ago in ...
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... shillings to the pit , and one shilling to the gallery . One side of the lower tier of boxes was occupied by the Court . The King and Queen sat in capacious arm - chairs , with satin playbills spread before them . The orchestra , which ...
... shillings to the pit , and one shilling to the gallery . One side of the lower tier of boxes was occupied by the Court . The King and Queen sat in capacious arm - chairs , with satin playbills spread before them . The orchestra , which ...
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... shilling , was a miserably - furnished , dreary place , which had little charm for me , except in the noble view from its leads . One of these dingy rooms was hung with faded tapestry , delineating the piteous 婴 story of Hero and ...
... shilling , was a miserably - furnished , dreary place , which had little charm for me , except in the noble view from its leads . One of these dingy rooms was hung with faded tapestry , delineating the piteous 婴 story of Hero and ...
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... shillings , subsequently raised to three shillings and sixpence . The blank paper was to be stamped at Somerset House , the payment being in cash , with a discount . It will be seen at once how these taxes pressed upon the capital to be ...
... shillings , subsequently raised to three shillings and sixpence . The blank paper was to be stamped at Somerset House , the payment being in cash , with a discount . It will be seen at once how these taxes pressed upon the capital to be ...
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... shillings a quarter . I rejoice to see that I was fearless of the indignation which the Windsor paper , circulating chiefly in an agricultural district , would produce , when I wrote " It is hardly fair that the landowner and cultivator ...
... shillings a quarter . I rejoice to see that I was fearless of the indignation which the Windsor paper , circulating chiefly in an agricultural district , would produce , when I wrote " It is hardly fair that the landowner and cultivator ...
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Página 100 - Adonis in Loveliness, was a corpulent gentleman of fifty ! In short, that this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...
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Página 101 - ... without actual malice, and without gross negligence; and that before the commencement of the action, or at the earliest opportunity afterwards...
Página 277 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd; But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it. This thou would'st say, 'Your son did thus and thus; Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas...
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Página 401 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear : change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Página 245 - I think you've picked up truth by bits ' From foreigner and neighbour, I think the world has lost its wits, And you have lost your labour. " I think the studies of the wise, The hero's noisy quarrel, The majesty of woman's eyes, The poet's cherish'd laurel ; And all that makes us lean or fat, And all that charms or troubles, — This bubble is more bright than that, But still they all are bubbles.
Página 401 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.