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De Quincey Thomas - Confessions Of An English Opium-eater
[ FICTION]
... now been long interrupted. I cannot read to myself with any pleasure, hardly with a moment's endurance. Yet I read aloud sometimes for the pleasure of others, because reading is an accomplishment of mine, and, in the slang use of the word "accomplishment" as a superficial and ornamental attainment, ...
James I - Basilikon Doron Or His Maiesties Instrvctions To His Dearest Sonne, Henry The Prince
[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
... oppressours: embrace the quarrell of the poore and distressed, as your owne particular, thinking it your greatest honour to represse the oppressours: care for the pleasure of none, neither spare ye anie paines in your owne person, to see their wrongs redressed: 5 and remember of the honour- ----- 1 Exod. ...
Cantillon Richard - Essai Sur La Nature Du Commerce En General
[ GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIC WORKS - IN OTHER GERMANIC LANGUAGES]
... a Minister is able to raise and support the price of public stock and to lower the rate of interest in the State at the pleasure of this Minister when the steps are taken discreetly, and thus pay off the State debt. But these refinements which open the door to ...
Conrad Joseph - An Outcast Of The Islands
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... way places of that part of the world, always in search of new markets for his cargoes -- not so much for profit as for the pleasure of finding them -- he soon became known to the Malays, and by his successful recklessness in several encounters with pirates, established the terror of ...
Chesterton G.k. - Utopia Of Usurers And Other Essays
[ ENGLISH SATIRE & HUMOR]
... Day; as children, like all nice and healthy people, are very ritualistic. Some week or so after Twelfth Night, let us say, you have the pleasure of removing three layers of pasteboards, five layers of brown paper, and fifteen layers of tissue paper and discovering the fragments of an artificial ...
Mill John Stuart - On Liberty
[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
... One, or a governing tribe or caste, who derived their authority from inheritance or conquest, who, at all events, did not hold it at the pleasure of the governed, and whose supremacy men did not venture, perhaps did not desire, to contest, whatever precautions might be taken against its oppressive ...
Clarendon Edward Hyde 1st Earl Of - A Survey Of Mr Hobbes His Leviathan
[ OTHERS IN ENGLISH]
... repeal of that Law, for he that can make himself free, is free; so they will think, that he that can be undon at the pleasure of another man, is undon already, and that every day is but the Eve of his destruction, and therefore will think of all ways ...
Bunin Ivan - The Gentleman From San Francisco
[ OTHER LITERATURES]
... his name -- with his wife and daughter, was on his way to Europe, where he intended to stay for two whole years, solely for the pleasure of it. He was firmly convinced that he had a full right to a rest, enjoyment, a long comfortable trip, and what not. This ...
Wiggin Kate Douglas Smith - Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
[ AMERICAN]
... remembered with pleasure that Hannah had not spoken a word during the interview, and it was for this reason that they had asked for the pleasure of her company. Rebecca, on the other hand, had dressed up the dog in John's clothes, and being requested to get the three ...
Hall Joseph - Characters Of Virtues And Vices
[ ENGLISH MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
... of the spiritual battle; and can teach others how to fight, and encourage them in fighting. His heart was never more taken up with the pleasure of sin, than now with care of avoiding it: the very sight of that cup, wherein such a fulsome potion was brought him, turns ...
Bierce Ambrose - Can Such Things Be?
[ FICTION]
... he added, laughing naturally enough, 'that my rabbit is leading me a long way from the track of my legitimate quarry: indulging in the pleasure of the chase for its own sake. What I want you to observe is that in Herbert Spencer's definition of "life" the activity of a ...

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