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... feel a certain sullen , genial , fierce , brutal , kindly mood enough , and looked at Septimius with a sort of friendship , as if he had as lief shake hands with him as knock him down . " Now for a talk about business , " than the first ...
... feel a certain sullen , genial , fierce , brutal , kindly mood enough , and looked at Septimius with a sort of friendship , as if he had as lief shake hands with him as knock him down . " Now for a talk about business , " than the first ...
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... feeling as if all eyes might find out what he had in his mind from his appearance ; taking by - ways where they were ... feel his load proportionably heavier . With these beings of a moment he had no longer any common cause ; they must ...
... feeling as if all eyes might find out what he had in his mind from his appearance ; taking by - ways where they were ... feel his load proportionably heavier . With these beings of a moment he had no longer any common cause ; they must ...
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... feel that , though he could handle the birch upon occasion , there was in him a fine ge- nial vein . This was the first English comedy . The first English tragedy , too , " Gorboduc , " was acted first by students , this time students ...
... feel that , though he could handle the birch upon occasion , there was in him a fine ge- nial vein . This was the first English comedy . The first English tragedy , too , " Gorboduc , " was acted first by students , this time students ...
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... feel what a treasure in the memory are passages of fine poetry committed early in life ? Who can doubt the value to the bear- ing , the fine address , the literary cul- ture of a youth of either sex that might come from the careful ...
... feel what a treasure in the memory are passages of fine poetry committed early in life ? Who can doubt the value to the bear- ing , the fine address , the literary cul- ture of a youth of either sex that might come from the careful ...
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... feel sure would awaken in you something more than a common interest , if you could understand it . I have just written my friends G. L. Stearns and F. B. Sanborn , asking them to meet me for consultation at I am very anxious to have you ...
... feel sure would awaken in you something more than a common interest , if you could understand it . I have just written my friends G. L. Stearns and F. B. Sanborn , asking them to meet me for consultation at I am very anxious to have you ...
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Page 273 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 273 - ... passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Page 315 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 41 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Page 273 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and -thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 395 - Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people.
Page 395 - I find the general fate of humanity here most deplorable. The truth of Voltaire's observation, offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil.
Page 31 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb 1020 Higher than the sphery chime ; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Page 26 - There while they acted and overacted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator ; they thought themselves gallant men, and I thought them • fools ; they made sport, and I laughed ; they mispronounced, and I misliked ; and to make up the atticism, they were out, and I hissed.