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Page 7
... reason that your grace is the mouth of this council ; but , my lord , the mouths that put this tale into yours are very wide , and have gaped long for my ruin . What my cousin Desmond has done I know not ; beshrew him for holding out so ...
... reason that your grace is the mouth of this council ; but , my lord , the mouths that put this tale into yours are very wide , and have gaped long for my ruin . What my cousin Desmond has done I know not ; beshrew him for holding out so ...
Page 13
... reason have any opportunity to exert themselves for remedy of the excesses of their premature power . The consequences of their conduct , which in good minds ( and many of theirs are probably such ) might produce penitence or amendment ...
... reason have any opportunity to exert themselves for remedy of the excesses of their premature power . The consequences of their conduct , which in good minds ( and many of theirs are probably such ) might produce penitence or amendment ...
Page 35
... reason to be convinced during both my residences at Ioannina . The higher class of Greeks seldom use any other means of artificial warmth than a brazier of charcoal in the middle of the apart- ment , trusting to their pelisses and thick ...
... reason to be convinced during both my residences at Ioannina . The higher class of Greeks seldom use any other means of artificial warmth than a brazier of charcoal in the middle of the apart- ment , trusting to their pelisses and thick ...
Page 49
... reason's reach ; If that clear flame deduce its heat from Heaven , " Tis , like its cause , eternal ; always one , As is th ' instiller of divinest love , Unchanged by time , immortal , maugre death . But , oh , ' tis grown a figment ...
... reason's reach ; If that clear flame deduce its heat from Heaven , " Tis , like its cause , eternal ; always one , As is th ' instiller of divinest love , Unchanged by time , immortal , maugre death . But , oh , ' tis grown a figment ...
Page 67
... reason where the writers of former days believed , and the attention of the reader is rivetted by the earnestness of their credulity . Besides which , the very outward appearance of their volumes diffuses a quiet charm ; the mellow tint ...
... reason where the writers of former days believed , and the attention of the reader is rivetted by the earnestness of their credulity . Besides which , the very outward appearance of their volumes diffuses a quiet charm ; the mellow tint ...
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