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... tell me your business . " Septimius did come in , but was so struck by the aspect of Doctor Port- soaken's apartment , and his gown , that he did not immediately tell his business . In the first place , everything looked very dusty and ...
... tell me your business . " Septimius did come in , but was so struck by the aspect of Doctor Port- soaken's apartment , and his gown , that he did not immediately tell his business . In the first place , everything looked very dusty and ...
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... tell me about them . " The naturalist took the flowers in his hand , one of which had the root ap- pended , and examined them with great minuteness and some surprise ; two or three times looking in Septimius's face with a puzzled and ...
... tell me about them . " The naturalist took the flowers in his hand , one of which had the root ap- pended , and examined them with great minuteness and some surprise ; two or three times looking in Septimius's face with a puzzled and ...
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... quite so much importance as this . I'll tell you fairly ; the heir of a great Eng- lish house is lately dead , and the estate lies open to any well - sustained , per- haps 1872. ] 7 Septimius Felton ; or , The Elixir of Life .
... quite so much importance as this . I'll tell you fairly ; the heir of a great Eng- lish house is lately dead , and the estate lies open to any well - sustained , per- haps 1872. ] 7 Septimius Felton ; or , The Elixir of Life .
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... tell me what it is ? " Perhaps it could not be . Who but himself could undergo that great trial , and hardship , and self - denial , and firm purpose , never wavering , never sink- ing for a moment , keeping his grasp on life like one ...
... tell me what it is ? " Perhaps it could not be . Who but himself could undergo that great trial , and hardship , and self - denial , and firm purpose , never wavering , never sink- ing for a moment , keeping his grasp on life like one ...
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... tell ; though often he was impelled to ask himself the same question he asked Sybil , " Are we friends ? " because of a sud- den shock and repulsion that came between them , and passed away in a moment ; and there would be Sybil ...
... tell ; though often he was impelled to ask himself the same question he asked Sybil , " Are we friends ? " because of a sud- den shock and repulsion that came between them , and passed away in a moment ; and there would be Sybil ...
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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.