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... fear of displeasing the master who feeds and clothes him . Vol- taire , who had ample personal experience on this point , during the boasted reign of Louis the Fourteenth , the Macenas of modern times , in speaking of the appointment of ...
... fear of displeasing the master who feeds and clothes him . Vol- taire , who had ample personal experience on this point , during the boasted reign of Louis the Fourteenth , the Macenas of modern times , in speaking of the appointment of ...
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... fear to incur banishment or imprisonment by exploring the depths of philosophy for hidden truths , or vindicating the rights of the human race at the expense of those who inflict on them nothing but wrongs ; they have no reason to ...
... fear to incur banishment or imprisonment by exploring the depths of philosophy for hidden truths , or vindicating the rights of the human race at the expense of those who inflict on them nothing but wrongs ; they have no reason to ...
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... fear , in order to relieve him , recommended him to Charles the Fifth , Emperor of Germany , who took him under his patronage . The greatest honor ever paid to this eminent artist , in the opinion of his biographer , was the em- peror ...
... fear , in order to relieve him , recommended him to Charles the Fifth , Emperor of Germany , who took him under his patronage . The greatest honor ever paid to this eminent artist , in the opinion of his biographer , was the em- peror ...
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... fear , as a superior order of beings ; and though expe- rience generally proved that such an association only brought morti- fication and indignity to the ambitious scholar or artist , still it was not the less an object of ardent ...
... fear , as a superior order of beings ; and though expe- rience generally proved that such an association only brought morti- fication and indignity to the ambitious scholar or artist , still it was not the less an object of ardent ...
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... fear from jealous despotism . We hear it every day confidently asserted , as if it were a fact challenging denial , that the rewards bestowed on literature and the fine arts in the United States , have not equalled those they received ...
... fear from jealous despotism . We hear it every day confidently asserted , as if it were a fact challenging denial , that the rewards bestowed on literature and the fine arts in the United States , have not equalled those they received ...
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Page 81 - I appeal to any white man to say if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 375 - I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents and at the very tiptop of my voice. Here it is, gentlemen ! Here is the good liquor...
Page 517 - CALL it not vain ¡—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Page 561 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Page 375 - Fill again, and tell me, on the word of an honest toper, did you ever, in cellar, tavern, or any kind of a dram-shop, spend the price of your children's food for a swig half so delicious?
Page 422 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedewed With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 375 - Who next ? Oh, my little friend, you are let loose from school, and come hither to scrub your blooming face, and drown the memory of certain taps of the ferule, and other schoolboy troubles, in a draught from the Town Pump.
Page 375 - It were a pity, if all this outcry should draw no customers. Here they come. A hot day, gentlemen! Quaff, and away again, so as to keep yourselves in a nice cool sweat. You, my friend, will need another cupful, to wash the dust out of your throat, if it be as thick there as -it is on your cowhide shoes. I see that you have trudged half a score...
Page 375 - Dry work, this speechifying; especially to an unpractised orator. I never conceived, till now, what toil the temperance lecturers undergo for my sake. Hereafter, they shall have the business to themselves. Do, some kind Christian, pump a stroke or two, just to wet my whistle. Thank you, sir ! My dear hearers, when the world shall have been regenerated...
Page 5 - Mr. Gascoigne was a ruined politician, a man of evil fame, or at least had been so till time had buried him from the knowledge of the present generation, and made him obscure instead of infamous. As for the Widow Wycherly, tradition tells us that she was a great beauty in her day ; but, for a long while past, she had lived in deep seclusion, on account of certain scandalous stories which had prejudiced the gentry of the town against her. It is a circumstance worth mentioning that each of these three...