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... ( proved ) ; shew ( showed ) ; to reckon , calculate , guess , when used to express opinion , expectation , or intention ; to allow ( admit , maintain ) ; to rag ( steal ) ; to rag at ( rail at ) ; to be through ( finish ) ; to hitch up ...
... ( proved ) ; shew ( showed ) ; to reckon , calculate , guess , when used to express opinion , expectation , or intention ; to allow ( admit , maintain ) ; to rag ( steal ) ; to rag at ( rail at ) ; to be through ( finish ) ; to hitch up ...
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... prove the perverseness of the author . It would be inelegant , inharmonious , and deficient in the power of conveying thoughts and images , of which , indeed , such a writer could have but extremely few at starting . Let the Saxon ...
... prove the perverseness of the author . It would be inelegant , inharmonious , and deficient in the power of conveying thoughts and images , of which , indeed , such a writer could have but extremely few at starting . Let the Saxon ...
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... prove , more clearly than the most eminent pike - staff , ... that misses coffee and hot rolls at nine , he may easily run into a leg of mutton at twelve . " 1 if a man · " The House of Socrates ( Domus Socratica is the expression of ...
... prove , more clearly than the most eminent pike - staff , ... that misses coffee and hot rolls at nine , he may easily run into a leg of mutton at twelve . " 1 if a man · " The House of Socrates ( Domus Socratica is the expression of ...
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... proved beyond their greatest extent to be true ! " 5 66 Perhaps at some future time I may be inclined to give some of these dialogues to the world ; for if she did not note them down at the time , I certainly did so as they came from ...
... proved beyond their greatest extent to be true ! " 5 66 Perhaps at some future time I may be inclined to give some of these dialogues to the world ; for if she did not note them down at the time , I certainly did so as they came from ...
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... prove correct . There was a line of tracks leading up the bank ; and around the orifice of the cavity 2 the snow was considerably trampled down — as if the bear had turned himself two or three times before entering . That he had entered ...
... prove correct . There was a line of tracks leading up the bank ; and around the orifice of the cavity 2 the snow was considerably trampled down — as if the bear had turned himself two or three times before entering . That he had entered ...
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Page 61 - The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Page 164 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise : which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Page 162 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 190 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do.
Page 152 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Page 163 - Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought ? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 194 - He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Page 152 - Of old hast THOU laid the foundation of the earth : And the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but THOU shalt endure : Yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment ; As a vesture shalt THOU change them, and they shall be changed : But THOU art the same, And thy years shall have no end.
Page 260 - Ah why,' said Ellen, sighing to herself, ' Why do not words, and kiss, and solemn pledge ; ' And nature that is kind in woman's breast, ' And reason that in man is wise and good, ' And fear of him who is a righteous judge ; ' Why do not these prevail for human life, ' To keep two hearts together, that began ' Their spring-time with one love, and that have need ' Of mutual pity and forgiveness, sweet ' To grant, or be received; while that poor bird...
Page 78 - I thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator...