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Pagina 6
... thought ; but he kindly promised to give it his immediate attention , and said he did not doubt of his success in finding it if the manuscript were - as he agreed with me in thinking it probably was in France . Here let me premise that ...
... thought ; but he kindly promised to give it his immediate attention , and said he did not doubt of his success in finding it if the manuscript were - as he agreed with me in thinking it probably was in France . Here let me premise that ...
Pagina 7
... thought Franklin had been serious in his appli- cation for the hand of Madame Helvetius . He did not seem entirely free from doubt on that subject , and whether it was not policy rather than a more tender emotion that prompted the old ...
... thought Franklin had been serious in his appli- cation for the hand of Madame Helvetius . He did not seem entirely free from doubt on that subject , and whether it was not policy rather than a more tender emotion that prompted the old ...
Pagina 20
... Yours of 22nd leaving all to my discretion , I thought it discreetest not to spend so large a sum as 25 M francs without PURCHASE OF MEMOIRS 21 positive orders . These last instructions 20 RETROSPECTIONS OF AN ACTIVE LIFE.
... Yours of 22nd leaving all to my discretion , I thought it discreetest not to spend so large a sum as 25 M francs without PURCHASE OF MEMOIRS 21 positive orders . These last instructions 20 RETROSPECTIONS OF AN ACTIVE LIFE.
Pagina 22
... thought , take charge of the box and surely deliver it Sunday for 50 francs . During these entrefaites , four o'clock sounded . At past the caisse was on the back of Legoupy's boy following your servant up the Boulevard . The very best ...
... thought , take charge of the box and surely deliver it Sunday for 50 francs . During these entrefaites , four o'clock sounded . At past the caisse was on the back of Legoupy's boy following your servant up the Boulevard . The very best ...
Pagina 23
... thought of that journey had been less repulsive . I am sorry that Mr. Forster will stay away from church in vain , and sorry that you won't have time to look leisurely at your treasures till you reach New York . They are , if I can ...
... thought of that journey had been less repulsive . I am sorry that Mr. Forster will stay away from church in vain , and sorry that you won't have time to look leisurely at your treasures till you reach New York . They are , if I can ...
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Pagina 174 - The cease of majesty Dies not alone, but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it; it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.
Pagina 454 - But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Pagina 78 - I do not recognize you as capable of judging, or even fully apprehending me. You evidently regard me as a weak sentimentalist, misled by a maudlin philosophy. I arraign you as narrow-minded blockheads, who would like to be useful to a great and good cause, but don't know how.
Pagina 91 - In the mean time, that hard-to-begoverned passion of youth hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way, which were attended with some expense and great inconvenience, besides a continual risque to my health by a distemper which of all things I dreaded, though by great good luck I escaped it.
Pagina 124 - Stanton, being at the time commander-in-chief of the Northern troops that were concentrated about here, arrived rather late, indeed, they were waiting for him, and, on his entering the room, the President broke off in something he was saying, and remarked : " Let us proceed to business, gentlemen.
Pagina 91 - Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. 12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
Pagina 78 - HORACE GREELEY, a member of the Club, who has become a bondsman for Jefferson Davis, late chief officer of the Rebel government." Mr. Jay continues : " As I have reason to believe that the signers, or some of them, disapprove of the conduct which they propose the Club shall consider, it is clearly due...
Pagina 45 - The seceded states to be restored to their place in the union, whenever a convention of delegates, "elected by the male citizens, ... of whatever race, color, or previous condition," except those disfranchised for participation in rebellion, etc., should frame a constitution, which, being ratified by the people and approved by congress, should go into operation, and the legislature thereupon elected should adopt the fourteenth amendment.
Pagina 124 - I don't know — I don't know. But it will happen, and shortly, too.' As they were all impressed by his manner, the Attorney - General took him up again. ' Have you received any information, Sir, not yet disclosed to us?' 'No,' answered the President,