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... marry that boy , just as for two centuries in the famous houses of Catholic countries many of the daugh- ters were brought up in the expecta- tion that one day they should take the veil . Every one held this Roman practice as reasonable ...
... marry that boy , just as for two centuries in the famous houses of Catholic countries many of the daugh- ters were brought up in the expecta- tion that one day they should take the veil . Every one held this Roman practice as reasonable ...
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... marry a rich woman for her wealth , the better to maintain the luster of his rank , or the more easily to fulfil his particular political and social duties , but they also believed there could be no better luck or greater honor for a ...
... marry a rich woman for her wealth , the better to maintain the luster of his rank , or the more easily to fulfil his particular political and social duties , but they also believed there could be no better luck or greater honor for a ...
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... marry a greedy man . " Flushed and angry , Philip sprang to his feet . " You need n't talk , missy ; I give you more ' n I kep ' - more ' n you could eat . " " Yes , and I give very near all of mine to the girls . But you hain't never ...
... marry a greedy man . " Flushed and angry , Philip sprang to his feet . " You need n't talk , missy ; I give you more ' n I kep ' - more ' n you could eat . " " Yes , and I give very near all of mine to the girls . But you hain't never ...
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... marry somebody - who was it now ? Oh , yes , I know , poor old Jim Herraday's widow . " He bustled out and I remained for some time nearly as still as if some one had had me skilfully stuffed for an ornament to the library . Clandon ...
... marry somebody - who was it now ? Oh , yes , I know , poor old Jim Herraday's widow . " He bustled out and I remained for some time nearly as still as if some one had had me skilfully stuffed for an ornament to the library . Clandon ...
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... marry me , and I could n't convince him that I did n't wish to . He nearly drove me mad , until I told him about Mr. Clandon - of course , no one in my position could think of mar- rying poor Edmond- " " Quite so , " I agreed promptly ...
... marry me , and I could n't convince him that I did n't wish to . He nearly drove me mad , until I told him about Mr. Clandon - of course , no one in my position could think of mar- rying poor Edmond- " " Quite so , " I agreed promptly ...
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Page 512 - 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.
Page 147 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 746 - If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Page 516 - I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Page 42 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Page 433 - There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them.
Page 132 - battlements that on their restless fronts bore stars " — might have been copied from my architectural dreams, for it often occurred. We hear it reported of Dryden, and of Fuseli in modern times, that they thought proper to eat raw meat for the sake of obtaining splendid dreams: how much better, for such a purpose, to have eaten opium, which yet I do not remember that any poet is recorded to have done, except the dramatist Shadwell...
Page 307 - mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes!
Page 512 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause.
Page 454 - They declared against superstition on the one hand, and enthusiasm on the other. They loved the constitution of the Church, and the Liturgy, and could well live under them: But they did not think it unlawful to live under another form. They wished that things might have been carried with more moderation. And they continued to keep a good correspondence with those who had differed from them in opinion, and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy and in divinity: From whence they were called men...