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... force - men he swingeth ; A loved one shall prize The honor he bringeth ; Is there a duty ? That ' s soldier's booty , To have it he dies . True for his king and land The Northman will stand ; An oath is a band , — He never can rend it ...
... force - men he swingeth ; A loved one shall prize The honor he bringeth ; Is there a duty ? That ' s soldier's booty , To have it he dies . True for his king and land The Northman will stand ; An oath is a band , — He never can rend it ...
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... force of cir- cumstances in a position which would have tried the soundest of heads , even had that head been united with the purest of hearts . But the apologists of " the sea 16 [ July , Froude's Henry the Eighth . Froude's Henry the ...
... force of cir- cumstances in a position which would have tried the soundest of heads , even had that head been united with the purest of hearts . But the apologists of " the sea 16 [ July , Froude's Henry the Eighth . Froude's Henry the ...
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... force as they can make , or with much greater force they may show that Gardiner and other reactionary leaders were the real fire - raisers of her reign ; but the common mind will ever , and with great justice , associate those loath ...
... force as they can make , or with much greater force they may show that Gardiner and other reactionary leaders were the real fire - raisers of her reign ; but the common mind will ever , and with great justice , associate those loath ...
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... force of whose labors , whether those labors were blindly or ra- tionally wrought , is apparently as unspent as it was on that day on which , having provided for the butchery of the noblest of his servants , he fell into his final sleep ...
... force of whose labors , whether those labors were blindly or ra- tionally wrought , is apparently as unspent as it was on that day on which , having provided for the butchery of the noblest of his servants , he fell into his final sleep ...
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... force of the objection that existed to his title , and he sought to evade it by pre- tending to found his claim to the crown on descent from Edmund of Lancaster , whom he assumed to have been the elder brother of Edward I .; but no ...
... force of the objection that existed to his title , and he sought to evade it by pre- tending to found his claim to the crown on descent from Edmund of Lancaster , whom he assumed to have been the elder brother of Edward I .; but no ...
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Page 526 - That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten ; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Page 385 - Thy country feels through her reviving arts, Plann'd by thy wisdom, by thy soul inform'd ; And seldom has she known a friend like thee. But see the fading many-colour'd woods, Shade deepening over shade, the country round Imbrown ; a crowded umbrage, dusk, and dun, Of every hue, from wan declining green To sooty dark.
Page 513 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Page 246 - I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.
Page 239 - His father was a manufacturer of lead pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft, believing he could make a better pencil than was then in use. After completing his experiments, he exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune. But he replied, that he should never...
Page 365 - That, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed, For our advantage, to the bitter cross.
Page 587 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can.
Page 248 - Had his genius been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life, but with his energy and practical ability he seemed born for great enterprise and for command; and I so much regret the loss of his rare powers of action, that I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition.
Page 516 - Here's to thee, old apple-tree, Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow ! And whence thou mayst bear apples enow ! Hats full ! caps full ! Bushel — bushel — sacks full, And my pockets full too ! Huzza...
Page 443 - For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.