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Golden Sheaves Gathered from the Fields of Ancient and Modern Literature: A ... - Page 537
by Horace A. Cleveland - 1869 - 583 pages
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A Reply to Dr. Miller's Letter to a Gentleman of Baltimore: In Reference to ...

John Mason Duncan - Creeds - 1826 - 154 pages
...hisses, she stings. But wo to those who, in disgust, shall venture to crush her! And happy are they, who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...glory! "There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces — and that cure is freedom. When a prisoner first leaves his cell,...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her. And happy are those, who having dared to...length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and glory." In the arrangement of the preceding examples of allusion, reference is had to the division...
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An Essay on the Origin, Character, and Tendency of Creeds and Confessions of ...

John Mason Duncan - Creeds - 1834 - 276 pages
...hisses, she stings. But wo to those who, in disgust, shall venture to crush her ! And happy are they, who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...glory ! " There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces — and that cure is FREEDOM. When a prisoner first leaves his cell,...
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy arc those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded...glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces — and that cure is freedom ! When a prisoner first leaves his cell,...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe *to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her. And happy are those, who, having dared...be rewarded by her, in the time of her beauty and glory." In the arrangement of the preceding examples of Allusion, reference is had to the division...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe 'to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her. And happy are those, who, having dared...be rewarded by her, in the time of her beauty and glory." In the arrangement of the preceding examples of Allusion, reference is had to the division...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...hateful reptile^ She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared...glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces — and that cure is freedom ! When a prisoner leaves his cell, he...
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The New Englander, Volume 6

Criticism - 1848 - 628 pages
...slavery, they may indeed wait forever. " There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces — and that cure is freedom. When a prisoner leaves his cell, he can not bear the light of day : — he is unable to discriminate colors, or to recognize faces. But...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 1

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But wo to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to...glory. There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces — and that cure is freedom! When a prisoner leaves his cell, he cannot...
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Napoleon and His Marshals, Volume 2

J. T. Headley - Marshals - 1846 - 402 pages
...hateful reptile. She growls, she hisses, she stings ; but woe to those, who iti disgust, shall venture to crush her. And happy are those who, having dared to...by her in the time of her beauty and her glory."* I have made these remarks here, because they come more naturally under the sketch of Jourdan who derived...
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