Short Studies on Great Subjects: Third series, Band 1Scribner, Armstrong, 1877 - 400 Seiten |
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Seite 62 - Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man ? Some say the bee stings ; but I say 'tis the bee's wax, for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since.
Seite 331 - Others have advised the administration of alkalies in the hope that they may favour absorption. The best that can be said for them is, that they are not likely to do much harm.
Seite 384 - Navy, younger sons of good family who have not taken to a profession or have been obliged to leave ; a marvellous motley assemblage, among whom money flows like water from the amazing productiveness of the mine ; and in the midst of them a hundred or so keen-eyed Jewish merchants, who have gathered like eagles over their prey, and a few thousand natives who have come to work for wages, to steal diamonds and to lay their earnings out in rifles and powder.
Seite 74 - And whereas my father chastised you with a heavy yoke, I will also add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, and I will chastise you with scorpions.