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[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
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| ... prey, those dangerous and noxious creatures, that will be sure to destroy him whenever he falls into their power. Sect, 17. And hence it is, that he who attempts to get another man into his absolute power, does thereby put himself into a state of war with him; it being ... |
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[ DRAMA]
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| ... of Exeter, what thinks your lordship? Methinks the power that Edward hath in field Should not be able to encounter mine. EXETER The doubt is that he will seduce the rest. KING HENRY VI That's not my fear; my meed hath got me fame: I have not stopp'd mine ears ... |
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[ DRAMA]
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| ... be certain, you have mighty business in hand. CORNWALL True or false, it hath made thee earl of Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he may be ready for our apprehension. EDMUND [Aside] If I find him comforting the king, it will stuff his suspicion more fully.--I ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... at Joe, as if he were forgiving him something. `Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.Joe and I gasped, and looked at one another. `I am instructed to communicate to him,said Mr Jaggers, throwing ... |
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[ OTHER LITERATURES]
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| ... something particular. "What surprises me," he began, after a short pause, handing the letter to his mother, but not addressing any one in particular, "is that he is a business man, a lawyer, and his conversation is pretentious indeed, and yet he writes such an uneducated letter." They all started. ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... consul, newly appointed at one of the Adriatic ports. He was a mild, fair-whiskered young man, with some little property, and my impression is that he had got into bad company at home, and that his family procured him his place to keep him out of harm's way. He ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... wits for my sake, and yonder I see him comming, I will walke aside, and proiect for it. E I wonder where Tom Quarlous is, that he returnes not, it may be he is strucke in here to seeke us. K See, here is our mad-man againe. Quarlous in ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... and plucking personal impressions in great fragrant handfuls. All this, as I say, was natural, given the man and the situation; the only oddity is that he should have fancied himself able to persuade the person most interested that he had renounced his advantage. He remembered her telling him that ... |
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| ... laboring man's only day of recreation -- and what recreation is he offered?" "He ought to go to church," said Alonzo promptly. "But the fact is that he doesn't -- not often -- not at all in the afternoon. Wouldn't it be well to give him some wholesome way of employing his Sunday ... |
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[ DRAMA]
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| ... kind fellow, as ever servant shall come in house withal, and, I warrant you, no tell-tale nor no breed-bate: his worst fault is, that he is given to prayer; he is something peevish that way: but nobody but has his fault; but let that pass. Peter Simple, you ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... as neither a soothsayer, nor a physician, nor in any other character, unless he means to say that he is a god. My opinion is that he does not like honestly to confess that he is talking nonsense, but that he shuffles up and down in order to conceal the ... |




