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... possessing and inflicting ; as a dis- tinct race - a lower empire - whence issue perpetually the swarms of men whom necessity almost compels to crime ; whom every opportunity of in- struction renders perfect in its practice ; and yet to ...
... possessing and inflicting ; as a dis- tinct race - a lower empire - whence issue perpetually the swarms of men whom necessity almost compels to crime ; whom every opportunity of in- struction renders perfect in its practice ; and yet to ...
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... possessed by races of different habits and modes of thought ; and this with especial rapidity where the art of writing does not exist to form an enduring model for words and sounds . Hence arises the vast multitude of dialects in ...
... possessed by races of different habits and modes of thought ; and this with especial rapidity where the art of writing does not exist to form an enduring model for words and sounds . Hence arises the vast multitude of dialects in ...
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... possessed , has given no evidence of existence in the time of Joseph . The language thus formed from the hieroglyphics would necessarily partake of the pictorial character of its original . In fact , the earlier forms of speech , both ...
... possessed , has given no evidence of existence in the time of Joseph . The language thus formed from the hieroglyphics would necessarily partake of the pictorial character of its original . In fact , the earlier forms of speech , both ...
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... possessing knowledge and powers from which their descendants had degenerated , — an idea born out of the vague consciousness of man that he has within him a longing and a capability for something more exalted than he is , and from his ...
... possessing knowledge and powers from which their descendants had degenerated , — an idea born out of the vague consciousness of man that he has within him a longing and a capability for something more exalted than he is , and from his ...
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... possessed has vanished ; it is left empty , unmeaning - in one word , a lie . Then arises a season of mystery and skepticism ; the world abounds in hypocrisy ; faith , both of religion and all authority , appears dead ; so- ciety has ...
... possessed has vanished ; it is left empty , unmeaning - in one word , a lie . Then arises a season of mystery and skepticism ; the world abounds in hypocrisy ; faith , both of religion and all authority , appears dead ; so- ciety has ...
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Sida 495 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, . No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Sida 162 - But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Sida 478 - Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward through many troubled centuries to the days when the foundations of our constitution were laid, or far away over boundless seas and deserts to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right to left.
Sida 479 - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa.
Sida 399 - A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.
Sida 330 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Sida 480 - ... urbanity. But in spite of the absence of these two distinguished members of the Lower House, the box in which the managers stood contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the great age of Athenian eloquence. There stood Fox and Sheridan, the English Demosthenes and the English Hyperides.
Sida 478 - ... of gibraltar against the fleets and armies of france and spain the long procession was closed by the duke of norfolk earl marshal of the realm by the great dignitaries and by the brothers and sons of the king last of all came the prince of wales conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing...
Sida 328 - Scorn not the sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief; The sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow...
Sida 480 - ... comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham. Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest manager pass unnoticed.