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... better formerly , but whether we can make it better now . In fact , however , the system was not in ancient times by any means so absurd as it is in our age . One noble Lord † has to - night told us that the town of Aldborough , which ...
... better formerly , but whether we can make it better now . In fact , however , the system was not in ancient times by any means so absurd as it is in our age . One noble Lord † has to - night told us that the town of Aldborough , which ...
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... better . Turn where we may , with- in , around , the voice of great events is proclaiming to us , Reform , that you may preserve . Now , therefore , while every thing at home and abroad forebodes ruin to those who persist in a hopeless ...
... better . Turn where we may , with- in , around , the voice of great events is proclaiming to us , Reform , that you may preserve . Now , therefore , while every thing at home and abroad forebodes ruin to those who persist in a hopeless ...
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... better time . The words were prophetic . This is that more warrantable method . This is that better time . What Cromwell attempted to effect by an usurped authority , in a country which had lately been convulsed by civil war , and which ...
... better time . The words were prophetic . This is that more warrantable method . This is that better time . What Cromwell attempted to effect by an usurped authority , in a country which had lately been convulsed by civil war , and which ...
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... better off than your neighbours are . You are better off than your fathers were . Why can you not leave well alone ? " How copiously might a Jacobite orator have harangued on this topic in the Convention of 1688 ! " Why make a change of ...
... better off than your neighbours are . You are better off than your fathers were . Why can you not leave well alone ? " How copiously might a Jacobite orator have harangued on this topic in the Convention of 1688 ! " Why make a change of ...
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... better plan . I cannot but think that these tactics are unskilful . I cannot but think that , when our opponents defended the existing system in every part , they occupied a stronger position than at present . As my noble friend the ...
... better plan . I cannot but think that these tactics are unskilful . I cannot but think that , when our opponents defended the existing system in every part , they occupied a stronger position than at present . As my noble friend the ...
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Página 477 - No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes, in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear. All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer.
Página 469 - Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, With all the speed ye may; I, with two more to help me, Will hold the foe in play. In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three. Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?" Then out spake Spurius Lartius ; A Ramnian proud was he: "Lo, I will stand at thy right hand, And keep the bridge with thee.
Página 544 - Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Página 469 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Página 545 - Ho ! maidens of Vienna ! Ho ! matrons of Lucerne ! Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. Ho ! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls...
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Página 463 - Tall are the oaks whose acorns Drop in dark Auser's rill ; Fat are the stags that champ the boughs Of the Ciminian hill ; Beyond all streams Clitumnus Is to the herdsman dear ; Best of all pools the fowler loves The great Volsinian mere.