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... give her a good time if she wants it or not Them quiet ones like her's generally got a devil into them if a man can fetch a - hold ' I'd like to . ' ' A woman like me's got to get sleep , ' Mrs. Cashdollar complained . ' Are you suited ...
... give her a good time if she wants it or not Them quiet ones like her's generally got a devil into them if a man can fetch a - hold ' I'd like to . ' ' A woman like me's got to get sleep , ' Mrs. Cashdollar complained . ' Are you suited ...
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... give Andrew time . ' Own brothers , ' he was saying . ' Bred in this town . Equal to any weight . Up to any haul . Kind . Gentle . There ain't a kick into them . Set on their hocks , ' he invited . ' Look at them quarters . There's ...
... give Andrew time . ' Own brothers , ' he was saying . ' Bred in this town . Equal to any weight . Up to any haul . Kind . Gentle . There ain't a kick into them . Set on their hocks , ' he invited . ' Look at them quarters . There's ...
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... give an EXHIBITION of his Dog- School , on Saturday Evening , July 12th ( 1856 ) at the Mechanics ' Hall . Doors open at SEVEN , and Performance at HALF - PAST SEVEN . Admittance 25 cents . He read it to her . ' Want to see it ? ' he ...
... give an EXHIBITION of his Dog- School , on Saturday Evening , July 12th ( 1856 ) at the Mechanics ' Hall . Doors open at SEVEN , and Performance at HALF - PAST SEVEN . Admittance 25 cents . He read it to her . ' Want to see it ? ' he ...
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... give in to Trepov . You know much better than that man ; and still you let him lead you . Why not our Friend , who leads through God ? Only believe more in our Friend in- stead of Trepov . He lives for you and Russia . Would I write ...
... give in to Trepov . You know much better than that man ; and still you let him lead you . Why not our Friend , who leads through God ? Only believe more in our Friend in- stead of Trepov . He lives for you and Russia . Would I write ...
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... give consideration to callow suggestions and immature plans . We preserve a homogeneity most un- usual and refreshing in an adult body . We observe youth , but decline its restrictions . Luncheon concluded , we dispatched the Permanent ...
... give consideration to callow suggestions and immature plans . We preserve a homogeneity most un- usual and refreshing in an adult body . We observe youth , but decline its restrictions . Luncheon concluded , we dispatched the Permanent ...
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Page 81 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit...
Page 271 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 441 - My spirit is too weak— mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy winds to keep, Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye. Such dim-conceived glories of the brain, Bring round the heart an...
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Page 273 - With respect to aristocracy, we should further consider, that before the establishment of the American States, nothing was known to history but the man of the old world, crowded within limits either small or overcharged, and steeped in the vices which that situation generates.
Page 271 - The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right.
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Page 485 - Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping' creature that moveth upon the earth.
Page 45 - All I know is that, for twenty months, neglecting the common joys of life that fall to the lot of the humblest on this earth, I had, like the prophet of old, "wrestled with the Lord...