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... to have excited little interest . People appear to have thought battles and sieges , and successions and political parties , interspersed with a little scandal - about the love - doings of the great ones 4 EVELYN MARSTON .
... to have excited little interest . People appear to have thought battles and sieges , and successions and political parties , interspersed with a little scandal - about the love - doings of the great ones 4 EVELYN MARSTON .
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... thought . We have volumes upon volumes of court scandal , political intrigues , of the proceedings of ministers , corrupt and corrupting ; fine ladies , very questionable kings , not very amiable princesses and queens ; but of the ...
... thought . We have volumes upon volumes of court scandal , political intrigues , of the proceedings of ministers , corrupt and corrupting ; fine ladies , very questionable kings , not very amiable princesses and queens ; but of the ...
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... to sit down with us . A galley slave ! We get thrown at times into strange company ! " Ambrose looked angrily , I thought . " Too great an honour for a prince to be allowed to sit down with him , " he muttered . " 48 EVELYN MARSTON .
... to sit down with us . A galley slave ! We get thrown at times into strange company ! " Ambrose looked angrily , I thought . " Too great an honour for a prince to be allowed to sit down with him , " he muttered . " 48 EVELYN MARSTON .
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... thought , till some opportunity should arise of sending him across the frontier . This occasion never presented itself . Indeed that branch of the family with whom the child had remained , was not of a sort particularly inclined to ...
... thought , till some opportunity should arise of sending him across the frontier . This occasion never presented itself . Indeed that branch of the family with whom the child had remained , was not of a sort particularly inclined to ...
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... thought it advisable to con- form . This being done , and they having the infant heir of the Du Chastels in their hands , it was not difficult for them to obtain the guardianship of the child and the management of the large estates of ...
... thought it advisable to con- form . This being done , and they having the infant heir of the Du Chastels in their hands , it was not difficult for them to obtain the guardianship of the child and the management of the large estates of ...
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Page 299 - Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection.
Page 299 - Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Page 19 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 217 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 209 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 233 - The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, ' My life is dreary, He cometh not...
Page 266 - From each she nicely culls with curious toil And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box; The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transformed to combs, the speckled, and the white.
Page 187 - So let the change which comes be free To ingroove itself with that which flies, And work, a joint of state, that plies Its office, moved with sympathy.
Page 68 - He cast a look of despair around him. " When I reflect that if it had but been last year that consent was given, and that now I should have been there, and should already have satiated myself with Italy — that I should have been safely landed there, and it would have been useless to recall me — that I should there have learned that which, if not learned, what is art ? That I should have become what I feel I might, and now never can become ; for time, inexorable time, the golden years of my youth,...
Page 232 - But you will be wearied with this sad and monotonous subject. I thought to have followed in detail, the long struggles of this arduous existence, and the gradual advance of Evelyn in that path of the just, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.