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... caused to be vaccinated . Well ! it died two days afterwards . " " How ! two days after ? " " Yes ; it fell from the top of a tree and was killed . • · Cause your children to be vaccinated after that ! " LI . GARRICK . A man meeting the ...
... caused to be vaccinated . Well ! it died two days afterwards . " " How ! two days after ? " " Yes ; it fell from the top of a tree and was killed . • · Cause your children to be vaccinated after that ! " LI . GARRICK . A man meeting the ...
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Charles Henri Schneider. piety of the culprit , commuted the sentence , and only caused him to be expelled the regi- ment . " If we were to make him die , " he said , " we would run the risk of killing three persons instead of one ...
Charles Henri Schneider. piety of the culprit , commuted the sentence , and only caused him to be expelled the regi- ment . " If we were to make him die , " he said , " we would run the risk of killing three persons instead of one ...
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... Friant , one day on a field of battle , where bullets were falling as thick as hail , and causing the most disci- plined to bend their heads . " For six miserable sous which you receive per day 32 Quibble, Military Harangue,
... Friant , one day on a field of battle , where bullets were falling as thick as hail , and causing the most disci- plined to bend their heads . " For six miserable sous which you receive per day 32 Quibble, Military Harangue,
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... husband . The judges granted her request . LXXIX . A MOTHER . I can never recall to my memory without shuddering the extraordinary word of a mother , whose two sons Robespierre had caused to perish . She 34 Conjugal Devotion, A Mother, ·
... husband . The judges granted her request . LXXIX . A MOTHER . I can never recall to my memory without shuddering the extraordinary word of a mother , whose two sons Robespierre had caused to perish . She 34 Conjugal Devotion, A Mother, ·
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Charles Henri Schneider. whose two sons Robespierre had caused to perish . She wished , on the ninth thermidor ( 27th July 1794 ) , to convince herself with her own eyes that that monster was dead ; and when his head fell , she exclaimed ...
Charles Henri Schneider. whose two sons Robespierre had caused to perish . She wished , on the ninth thermidor ( 27th July 1794 ) , to convince herself with her own eyes that that monster was dead ; and when his head fell , she exclaimed ...
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Page 122 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Page 143 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 158 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits, and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; And then, the whining school-boy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school: And then, the lover; Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress...
Page 158 - With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 153 - But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap...
Page 153 - Work, work, work! From weary chime to chime ; Work, work, work, As prisoners work for crime : Band and gusset and seam, Seam and gusset and band, Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumbed, As well as the weary hand.
Page 154 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Page 139 - Live, while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live, while you live, the sacred preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Page 141 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 153 - Work - work work Till the brain begins to swim! Work - work - work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam , and gusset , and band , Band , and gusset , and seam , Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out , But human creatures