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Charles Knight
Charles Knight & Company, 1844

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145. oldal - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man ; any strange beast there makes a man : when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
213. oldal - And was old dog at physiology; But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel, but all in vain, His own weight brings him down again: And still he's in the self-same place Where at his setting out he was...
10. oldal - And when he was asked the reason of so committing the trust, he answered to this effect — that there was no absolute certainty in human affairs ; but, for his part, he found less corruption in such a body of citizens than in any other order or degree of mankind.
332. oldal - Come, my boys, my brave boys, let us pray heartily and fight heartily. I will run the same fortunes and hazards with you. Remember, the cause is for God, and for the defence of yourselves, your wives, and children. Come, my honest brave boys, pray heartily and fight heartily, and God will bless us.
393. oldal - Juries have declared that they felt it impossible to remove their looks from him when he had riveted, and, as it were, fascinated them by his first glance...
230. oldal - This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
141. oldal - So help me God I will keep all these articles inviolate, as I am a man, as I am a Christian, as I am a knight, and as I am a king crowned and anointed.
142. oldal - I am descended by right line of blood, coming from the good lord, king Henry III., and through that right that God, of his grace, hath sent me with help of my kin and of my friends to recover it ; the which realm was in point to be undone for default of governance, and undoing of good laws.
12. oldal - Master is to be a man of a wise, sociable, and loving disposition, not hasty or furious, nor of any ill example ; he shall be wise and of good experience, to discern the nature of every several child; to work upon the disposition for the greatest advantage, benefit, and comfort of the child ; to learn with the love of his book : unfortunately, it was necessary then as now to add,
398. oldal - Grant attained, and its effect upon all listeners was as certain and as powerful as its merits were incontestable and exalted. In parliament he is unquestionably to be classed with speakers of the first order. His style was peculiar ; it was that of the closest and severest reasoning ever heard in any popular assembly ; reasoning which would have been reckoned close in the argumentation of the bar or the dialectics of the schools. It was, from the first to the last, throughout, pure reason and the...

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