There were pale strange faces there, great eyes like carriage-lamps. Confess! Confess! It was not enough to lull the conscience with a tear and a prayer. While things are yet not constituted in religion, that freedom of writing should be restrained by a discipline imitated from the prelates and learnt by them from the Inquisition, to shut us up all again into the breast of a licenser, must needs give cause of doubt and discouragement to all learned and religious men. She was sitting there among…
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Bearded workmen with pious faces were guiding a canopy out through a side door, the sacristan aiding them with quiet gestures and words. It will also have a most beneficial effect to increase the trade between the eastern seaboard of the United States and the western coast of South America, and, indeed, with some of the important ports on the east coast of South America reached by rail from the west coast. I recognized the signs, the portents--I recognized the moment, the spot. "There's one…
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The zeal and ardor of the people during the Revolutionary war, supplying the place of government, commanded a degree of order sufficient at least for the temporary preservation of society. "Ah, of course, she's a jolly, `perfect' lady; but, after all, I'm a fellow, don't you see? that's--well, getting on. He felt the prefect of studies touch it for a moment at the fingers to straighten it and then the swish of the sleeve of the soutane as the pandybat was lifted to strike. Then he asked: --Are…
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Yet was it beyond my hope that those worthies were then breathing in her air, who should be her leaders to such a deliverance, as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. To which if I now manifest by the very sound of this which I shall utter, that we are already in good part arrived, and yet from such a steep disadvantage of tyranny and superstition grounded into our principles as was beyond the manhood of a Roman recovery, it will be attributed…
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Amongst the other duties of a delicate character which the President is called upon to perform is the supervision of the government of the Territories of the United States. Once again, our economy is the strongest on Earth. No, by the Lord Jesus (God forgive me) not half dead. Mr Dedalus dropped his coat-tails and went over to the sideboard.
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I am and I know I am. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flour-fattened sauce. He kept his hands in the side pockets of his belted grey suit. "Oh, thank God!" She sprang up again at this, drying her eyes with a groan.
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Chapter 2 Uncle Charles smoked such black twist that at last his nephew suggested to him to enjoy his morning smoke in a little outhouse at the end of the garden. Four boys left the room; and he heard others passing down the corridor. I needed nothing more than this to feel the full force of Mrs. This we promptly arranged between us; but when, ten minutes later and in pursuance of our arrangement, we met in the hall, it was only to report on either side that after guarded inquiries we had…
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His arms are open to receive you even though you have sinned against Him. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. So, among other things, this "Small Print!" statement disclaims most of our liability to you. It is said that his right arm had grown powerless from having been raised so often over the heads of those whom he baptized.…
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We were held by it a minute; then I answered: "They can destroy them!" At this my companion did turn, but the inquiry she launched was a silent one, the effect of which was to make me more explicit. You're to go in at once and get dressed for the play. His mind, in the vesture of a doubting monk, stood often in shadow under the windows of that age, to hear the grave and mocking music of the lutenists or the frank laughter of waist-coateers until a laugh too low, a phrase, tarnished by time, of…
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My quickness would have to be remarkable, however, and the question of a conveyance was the great one to settle. " "When she pretended not to see--?" "With that astounding self-possession? I've always been sure she wanted to go back alone. The day of your first communion was the happiest day of your life. " "Oh, I'm not fit for church!" "Won't it do you good?" "It won't do THEM--! I nodded at the house.…
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" "Burned it?" It was now or never. The fact to be in possession of was therefore that his old friend, the youngest of several daughters of a poor country parson, had, at the age of twenty, on taking service for the first time in the schoolroom, come up to London, in trepidation, to answer in person an advertisement that had already placed her in brief correspondence with the advertiser. It was a sharp trap for the inscrutable! He couldn't play any longer at innocence; so how the deuce would he…
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If you think well of this one!"--and she stood there with a plate in her hand, beaming at our companion, who looked from one of us to the other with placid heavenly eyes that contained nothing to check us. The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep. But I was infatuated--I was blind with victory, though even then the very effect that was to have brought him so much nearer was already that of added separation. --Will you tell Doyle with my best compliments that I damned his eyes?…
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Oh, how I looked at her now! "And did you see anyone?" "Ah, NO!" she returned, almost with the full privilege of childish inconsequence, resentfully, though with a long sweetness in her little drawl of the negative. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. It is in such contemplations, my fellow countrymen, which are not exhaustive but only representative, that I find ample warrant for satisfaction and encouragement. The firelight flickered on the wall and…
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"Don't they do enough?" I demanded in a lower tone, while the children, having smiled and nodded and kissed hands to us, resumed their exhibition. But an unresting doubt flew hither and thither before his mind. He inclined his head, closed his eyes, and, licking his lips profusely, began to speak with the voice of the hotel keeper. And the fellow who had spoken first said: --Yes, that's what I heard too from the fellow in the higher line.…
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And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. A trembling joy, lambent as a faint light, played like a fairy host around him. She came up to his step many times and went down to hers again between their phrases and once or twice stood close beside him for some moments on the upper step, forgetting to go down, and then went down. The hollow rattle of the wooden…
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When the morning practice was over the trainer would make his comments and sometimes illustrate them by shuffling along for a yard or so comically in an old pair of blue canvas shoes. I wanted not to know; I was glad enough I didn't; and I thanked heaven she was well out of this!" "Yet you had, then, your idea--" "Of her real reason for leaving? Oh, yes--as to that. Only the morning pained him with its dim memory of dark orgiastic riot, its keen and humiliating sense of transgression.…
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" I can see Douglas there before the fire, to which he had got up to present his back, looking down at his interlocutor with his hands in his pockets. And all the rest!" I fairly held my breath a minute, and even from my glimmering taper there was light enough to show how he smiled up at me from his pillow. As I'm not a fiend, at any rate, I shouldn't take him in. Away then: it is time to go.…
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It may be printed, July 15. Thus is the people's will impressed upon the whole framework of our civil polity - municipal, State, and Federal; and this is the price of our liberty and the inspiration of our faith in the Republic. She passed her tinkling hand through his hair, calling him a little rascal. He used the phrase broadly and loudly as he often used technical expressions, as if he wished his hearer to understand that they were used by him without conviction.…
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Moynihan's voice called from behind in echo to a distant bell: --Closing time, gents! The entrance hall was crowded and loud with talk. We have sought very thoughtfully to set our house in order, correct the grosser errors and abuses of our industrial life, liberate and quicken the processes of our national genius and energy, and lift our politics to a broader view of the people's essential interests. The dean returned to the hearth and began to stroke his chin. From time to time also he balked…
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You had the minister of God to preach to you, to call you back when you had strayed, to forgive you your sins, no matter how many, how abominable, if only you had confessed and repented. Is it true, then, that any right plainly written in the Constitution has been denied? I think not. And so, there is much to do; and tomorrow the work begins. Truman, Inaugural Address, Thursday, January 20, 1949 Dwight D.…
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