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... Never mind , we will build it up again much better : Vive la France ! ' After a concealment of two days and nights in the recesses of the woods , the fugitives were at length gladdened by the sight of a French frigate , on board of ...
... Never mind , we will build it up again much better : Vive la France ! ' After a concealment of two days and nights in the recesses of the woods , the fugitives were at length gladdened by the sight of a French frigate , on board of ...
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... Never was a country so ripe to receive a master , fitted to curb its licen- tious factions , and to restore its vitality , as France in the latter part of 1799 . For ten years she had been engaged in a career of revolution , and at the ...
... Never was a country so ripe to receive a master , fitted to curb its licen- tious factions , and to restore its vitality , as France in the latter part of 1799 . For ten years she had been engaged in a career of revolution , and at the ...
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... never known since she embarked in her wild crusade against kings , nobles , and priests . Commensurate was the gratitude of her enraptured people , w were ready to testify it by any inordinate expression agreeable 13 THE BONAPARTE FAMILY .
... never known since she embarked in her wild crusade against kings , nobles , and priests . Commensurate was the gratitude of her enraptured people , w were ready to testify it by any inordinate expression agreeable 13 THE BONAPARTE FAMILY .
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... never ceased to mourn the loss he had sustained ; and when the proposition of a union with Hortense was made to him , he recoiled from it with abhorrence . He resisted all persuasions with a settled determination ; and it was only by ...
... never ceased to mourn the loss he had sustained ; and when the proposition of a union with Hortense was made to him , he recoiled from it with abhorrence . He resisted all persuasions with a settled determination ; and it was only by ...
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... Never did a more gay or fascinat- ing widow flutter in the brilliant circles of that dissipated capital . Her ambition was to outstrip in attractions the graceful Josephine , whom , with all her beauty , she could never rival in the ...
... Never did a more gay or fascinat- ing widow flutter in the brilliant circles of that dissipated capital . Her ambition was to outstrip in attractions the graceful Josephine , whom , with all her beauty , she could never rival in the ...
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Page 22 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 31 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 5 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 14 - English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education), he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words. Lute, harp, and lyre; Muse, Muses, and inspirations ; Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene were all an abomination to him.
Page 9 - We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety. We wish not a diminution of the prerogative, nor do we solicit the grant of any new right in our favor. Your royal authority over us, and our connection with Great Britain, we shall always carefully and zealously endeavor to support and maintain.
Page 17 - My horse moved on; hoof after hoof He raised, and never stopped : When down behind the cottage roof, At once, the bright moon dropped. What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a lover's head! "O mercy!" to myself I cried, "If Lucy should be dead!
Page 26 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho...
Page 23 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Page 21 - A gentle answer did the old Man make, In courteous speech which forth he slowly drew: And him with further words I thus bespake, 'What occupation do you there pursue ? This is a lonesome place for one like you.
Page 26 - How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use, As though to breathe were life.