Fibre & Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries in the Cotton and Woolen Trade, Tom 9

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1889

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Strona 73 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Strona 89 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Strona 169 - They could not leave their lord without his permission ; but, if they ran away, or were purloined from him, might be claimed and recovered by action, like beasts or other chattels.
Strona 8 - Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess.
Strona 112 - The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine ; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Strona 195 - Intellectually a stupor amounting almost to paralysis arrests the reason, changing all the higher faculties into a mere animalism, sensual, selfish, sluggish, varied only with paroxysms of anger that are senseless and brutal. In appearance the beerdrinker may be the picture of health, but in reality he is most incapable of resisting disease.
Strona 11 - The third ivas lodged in B, The fourth to C was then assigned, The fifth retired to D. In E the sixth he tucked away, In F the seventh man, The eighth and ninth in G and H, And then to A he ran, Wherein the host, as I have said, Had laid two travelers by; Then taking one — the tenth and last — He lodged him safe in I.
Strona 121 - Don't you know how hard it is for some people to get out of a room after their visit is really over? They want to be off, and you want to have them off, but they don't know how to manage it. One would think they had been built in your parlor or study, and were waiting to be launched.
Strona 112 - ... there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land...

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