College Requirements in English: For Careful Study, for the Years 1909-1915 ...Houghton Mifflin Company, 1896 |
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... lights . The probability is that the pol- icy of the East India Company was blamable for much that was charged upon Hastings . " Never , " says Lord John Russell , " has the great object of punishment - the prevention of crime been ...
... lights . The probability is that the pol- icy of the East India Company was blamable for much that was charged upon Hastings . " Never , " says Lord John Russell , " has the great object of punishment - the prevention of crime been ...
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... lights of their assemblies by refusing to choose those per- sons who are best read in their privileges . It would be no less impracticable to think of wholly annihilating the popu- lar assemblies in which these lawyers sit . The army ...
... lights of their assemblies by refusing to choose those per- sons who are best read in their privileges . It would be no less impracticable to think of wholly annihilating the popu- lar assemblies in which these lawyers sit . The army ...
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... light , resolving to deal in nothing but fact , authenticated by Parliamentary record , and to build myself wholly on that solid basis . -- 105. On the 4th of April , 1748 , a Committee of this House came to the following resolution ...
... light , resolving to deal in nothing but fact , authenticated by Parliamentary record , and to build myself wholly on that solid basis . -- 105. On the 4th of April , 1748 , a Committee of this House came to the following resolution ...
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... light as air , are as strong as links of iron . Let the colonists always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government , they will cling and grapple to you , and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them ...
... light as air , are as strong as links of iron . Let the colonists always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government , they will cling and grapple to you , and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them ...
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... light which they throw on Car- lyle's character . The account of them is quoted , with some small changes , from Froude . Jeffrey " found the article long and diffuse , though he 1 Froude Thomas Carlyle , a History of the First Forty ...
... light which they throw on Car- lyle's character . The account of them is quoted , with some small changes , from Froude . Jeffrey " found the article long and diffuse , though he 1 Froude Thomas Carlyle , a History of the First Forty ...
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Page 33 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But O, sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower ? Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek.
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