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We are aware that there are many other reasons , besides expense , which
induce visionary and revolutionary partisans to rail , as they do , against the army
and the navy , now that their services are supposed to be no longer required .
We are aware that there are many other reasons , besides expense , which
induce visionary and revolutionary partisans to rail , as they do , against the army
and the navy , now that their services are supposed to be no longer required .
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We cannot help here remarking , that it is a strange anomaly putting a civilian at
the head of the Admiralty ; and it is most indefensible , for the reason , although
not avowed , is as discreditable as it is notorious . The asserted reason is the very
...
We cannot help here remarking , that it is a strange anomaly putting a civilian at
the head of the Admiralty ; and it is most indefensible , for the reason , although
not avowed , is as discreditable as it is notorious . The asserted reason is the very
...
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My second reason for not getting out of my thraldom by committing suicide , was ,
that I often heard the parson say * in his sermons , there was no crime so great as
that of self - murder . I therefore availed myself of his doctrine , and chose the ...
My second reason for not getting out of my thraldom by committing suicide , was ,
that I often heard the parson say * in his sermons , there was no crime so great as
that of self - murder . I therefore availed myself of his doctrine , and chose the ...
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For mankind , who are ever ready to shuffle off the trouble of thinking for
themselves , reason thus . They say , - “ This man is a friend to the doctrine ,
therefore he will select the very best and strongest possible arguments that can
be brought to ...
For mankind , who are ever ready to shuffle off the trouble of thinking for
themselves , reason thus . They say , - “ This man is a friend to the doctrine ,
therefore he will select the very best and strongest possible arguments that can
be brought to ...
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I do not think that any one can trace out the line of demarcation between reason
and instinct . Instinct in many points is wonderful , especially among insects , but
where it is wonderful , it is a blind obedience , and inherited from generation to ...
I do not think that any one can trace out the line of demarcation between reason
and instinct . Instinct in many points is wonderful , especially among insects , but
where it is wonderful , it is a blind obedience , and inherited from generation to ...
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Página 321 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 64 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?
Página 60 - Grief made the young Spring wild, and she threw down Her kindling buds, as if she Autumn were, Or they dead leaves; since her delight is flown, For whom should she have waked the sullen year?
Página 63 - I dare not guess; but in this life Of error, ignorance, and strife. Where nothing is, but all things seem. And we the shadows of the dream, It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be. Like all the rest, a mockery.
Página 321 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; "Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
Página 64 - I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine : have I not kept the vow ? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours Each from his voiceless grave : they have in...
Página 65 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear, Till death like sleep might steal on me, And I might feel in the warm air My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony.
Página 61 - Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life...
Página 64 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Página 64 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.