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... march of events has left behind ; he is like a short - legged drummer- boy who cannot keep up with the movement of the regiment ; he is a being of a bygone age , singing an old song , telling a forgotten tale ; his mind is hung with ...
... march of events has left behind ; he is like a short - legged drummer- boy who cannot keep up with the movement of the regiment ; he is a being of a bygone age , singing an old song , telling a forgotten tale ; his mind is hung with ...
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... March , 1831 , was , by returns lately submitted to the House of Commons , £ 6,798,888 , 10s . The Rev. John Thomas Becher stated in his evidence before the Committee of the Lords , on the state of the poor - laws , that a male pauper ...
... March , 1831 , was , by returns lately submitted to the House of Commons , £ 6,798,888 , 10s . The Rev. John Thomas Becher stated in his evidence before the Committee of the Lords , on the state of the poor - laws , that a male pauper ...
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... march of this " change , " was sounded at Lex- ington in America . There the first volley of musketry was fired at the bosoms of the colonists ; there the first blood flowed in a contest which had its origin in the assertion of a great ...
... march of this " change , " was sounded at Lex- ington in America . There the first volley of musketry was fired at the bosoms of the colonists ; there the first blood flowed in a contest which had its origin in the assertion of a great ...
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... march . But persons shut their eyes to the obvious truth , that the wounds it inflicted were temporary , while the benefits it conferred must , from their very nature , be permanent . Pandemonium itself can disgorge nothing more odious ...
... march . But persons shut their eyes to the obvious truth , that the wounds it inflicted were temporary , while the benefits it conferred must , from their very nature , be permanent . Pandemonium itself can disgorge nothing more odious ...
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... march of the spirit which had been awakened in the great mass of the people . Concessions could no longer be withheld . Under the compulsion of the power which now acted upon the government , its policy became insensibly liberalized ...
... march of the spirit which had been awakened in the great mass of the people . Concessions could no longer be withheld . Under the compulsion of the power which now acted upon the government , its policy became insensibly liberalized ...
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Página 80 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Página 131 - ... to seek out, discover, and find whatsoever isles, countries, regions, or provinces of the heathen and infidels whatsoever they be, and in what part of the world soever they be, which before this time have been unknown to all Christians.
Página 120 - In parts of Ireland a systematic opposition has been made to the payment of tithes, attended, in some instances, with afflicting results : and it will be one of your first duties to inquire whether it may not be possible to effect improvements in the laws respecting this subject, which may afford the necessary protection to the established church, and at the same time remove the present causes of complaint.
Página 105 - Bill, and authorized him to declare the same to such persons as he might think fit ; that a written note was put into his hands, in which his majesty declared, " That he should deem those •' who should vote for it not only not his friends, but his enemies ; and that " if he (Lord Temple) could put this in stronger words, he had full authority
Página 131 - SEBASTIAN CABOTE TOULD ME that he was borne in Brystowe, and that at iiii. yeare ould he was carried with his father to Venice, and so returned agayne into England with his father after certayne years, whereby he was thought to have been born in Venice.
Página 121 - An Act to repeal an Act passed in the seventh year of his late Majesty king George the fourth, intituled An Act to amend the law of Ireland respecting the assignment and subletting of lands and tenements; and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof.
Página 64 - ... mark the eyes of a naturalist when you tell him of some new marine creature, half vegetable, half animal, which springs up in the shape of a tumbler, with something like an umbrella and stalk in the middle ; or only speak of a new holothuria, original in the number of its tentacula ! In the same way have the ordinary characters of society fallen into a kind of contempt in our literature. It was very well for Homer to describe heroes ,like Achilles and Agamemnon ; and for the Spectator to talk...
Página 68 - ... playmates, and begin to discover that their father is not the poor man he seems. The Peghler is thunderstruck, some fine morning, at finding his household convulsed by a rebellion, to which the very wife of his bosom is evidently not ill affected, against further breakfasts of porridge. The ancient dine-asty of potatoes is tumbled from its throne ; and tea, hitherto a thing only enjoyed clandestinely when he was from home, sets up its unblushing front every evening, as if it had a title of a...
Página 64 - ... describe heroes like Achilles and Agamemnon; and for the Spectator to talk of such men as Will Honeycomb or Sir Roger de Coverley. These personages were like the horse and the lion in the infancy of natural history. But anything like a full-grown, healthy, natural man, is now of no use. Everybody knew all about him ages ago. If you want proper subjects for the moral museum, you must poke into the holes and corners of human nature. It will not do now-a-days to describe anything but nondescripts....
Página 121 - A bill to amend the laws relating to the business of the Civil Departments of the Navy, and to make other regulations for tbe more effectually carrying on the duties of the same.