Selections from the Writings of the Late J. Sydney Taylor: With a Brief Sketch of His LifeC. Gilpin, 1843 - 496 страници |
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... passion struck him , when a mere child , a hasty blow with a ruler upon the head . The effects were such as he did not contemplate . Blood flowed copiously from the wound which he had inflicted , and the man of birch became alarmed . He ...
... passion struck him , when a mere child , a hasty blow with a ruler upon the head . The effects were such as he did not contemplate . Blood flowed copiously from the wound which he had inflicted , and the man of birch became alarmed . He ...
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... passion , struck , as it were , ' from the real orbit of his glory , -sent to flash in lawless eccentricity ' through the hemisphere of states , -withering in his course and cursed in ' his departure ! There , too , the statesman will ...
... passion , struck , as it were , ' from the real orbit of his glory , -sent to flash in lawless eccentricity ' through the hemisphere of states , -withering in his course and cursed in ' his departure ! There , too , the statesman will ...
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... passion , which , though of the most honourable nature , was likely to lead to hope- less disappointment . However that may be , he lost all taste for a fellow- ship , which , according to the absurd and monastic xlii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ...
... passion , which , though of the most honourable nature , was likely to lead to hope- less disappointment . However that may be , he lost all taste for a fellow- ship , which , according to the absurd and monastic xlii BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ...
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... passions of men , while he threw the sacred shield of the law over the life of an individual . He might , in the pro- motion of his cause , indulge in those bold or artful appeals of the orator that fix and charm the attention , and ...
... passions of men , while he threw the sacred shield of the law over the life of an individual . He might , in the pro- motion of his cause , indulge in those bold or artful appeals of the orator that fix and charm the attention , and ...
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... passion made the enforcement of the laws more odious than the escape of criminals , he would have blotted from the statute - book . It was his ambition to exorcise the merciless spirit of Draco from the code of a Christian people , and ...
... passion made the enforcement of the laws more odious than the escape of criminals , he would have blotted from the statute - book . It was his ambition to exorcise the merciless spirit of Draco from the code of a Christian people , and ...
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Страница 417 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Страница xxxii - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory.
Страница xliv - Muse, Proud of the treasure, marches with it down To latest times ; and Sculpture, in her turn, Gives bond in stone and ever-during brass To guard them, and to immortalize her trust. But fairer wreaths are due — though never paid — To those who, posted at the shrine of Truth, Have fallen in her defence.
Страница 276 - When a Prince to the fate of the Peasant has yielded, The tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall ; With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded, And pages stand mute by the canopied pall : Through the courts, at deep midnight, the torches are gleaming, In the proudly arched chapel the banners are beaming; Far adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming, Lamenting a Chief of the People should fall.
Страница xxxii - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Страница 456 - WHEREAS the late King James the Second, by the Assistance of divers evil Counsellors, Judges, and Ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom.
Страница 323 - ... whole he is taught, practice must also be the whole he will ever know ; if he be uninstructed in the elements and first principles upon which the rule of practice is founded, the least variation from established precedents will totally distract and bewilder him : ita lex...
Страница 457 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Страница xxxii - We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Страница 437 - The good must tolerate the evil when it is so strong that it cannot be redressed without danger and...