Complete Works, Volume 4G. Routledge, 1886 |
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Page 102
... gorilla and his kindred , but not talk about people who can talk in their turn . Suppose we praise the High Church ? we offend the Low Church . The Broad Church ? High and Low are both offended . What do you think of Lord Derby as a ...
... gorilla and his kindred , but not talk about people who can talk in their turn . Suppose we praise the High Church ? we offend the Low Church . The Broad Church ? High and Low are both offended . What do you think of Lord Derby as a ...
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... gorilla ; and then my poor Ogrina has to tell me that the little princes have all run away , whilst she was in the kitchen , making the paste to bake them in ! I pause in the description . I won't condescend to report the bad language ...
... gorilla ; and then my poor Ogrina has to tell me that the little princes have all run away , whilst she was in the kitchen , making the paste to bake them in ! I pause in the description . I won't condescend to report the bad language ...
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... - lender in a house in Nor- thumberland Street , Strand , and subsequent to the appearance of M. Du Chaillu's book on Gorillas . * W. R. obiit March 22 , 1862 . ROUNDABOUT PAPERS . 117 On Two Roundabout Papers which I intended to Write.
... - lender in a house in Nor- thumberland Street , Strand , and subsequent to the appearance of M. Du Chaillu's book on Gorillas . * W. R. obiit March 22 , 1862 . ROUNDABOUT PAPERS . 117 On Two Roundabout Papers which I intended to Write.
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... Gorillas , to be sure . I was going to imagine myself to be a young surgeon- apprentice from Charleston , in South Carolina , who ran away to Cuba on account of unhappy family circumstances , with which nobody has the least concern ...
... Gorillas , to be sure . I was going to imagine myself to be a young surgeon- apprentice from Charleston , in South Carolina , who ran away to Cuba on account of unhappy family circumstances , with which nobody has the least concern ...
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... Gorillas ! " And he fired both barrels of his gun , bringing down the little one first , and the female afterwards ... Gorilla race may be down upon us . " " The little one is only shot in the leg , " I said . " I'll bind the limb ...
... Gorillas ! " And he fired both barrels of his gun , bringing down the little one first , and the female afterwards ... Gorilla race may be down upon us . " " The little one is only shot in the leg , " I said . " I'll bind the limb ...
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Page 63 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 270 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.
Page 91 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to His holy keeping. 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.
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Page 156 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The Moon takes up the wondrous tale; And nightly, to the listening Earth, Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
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Page 219 - ... it would be hard to find a man, so well entitled to notice by his wit, that ever delighted so much in talking of his money.