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... caused enormous losses and distress . It was the skill and prudence of SIR ROBERT WALPOLE , a member of the government , that restored anything like public credit and confidence . For nearly twenty- one years afterwards he was prime ...
... caused enormous losses and distress . It was the skill and prudence of SIR ROBERT WALPOLE , a member of the government , that restored anything like public credit and confidence . For nearly twenty- one years afterwards he was prime ...
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... caused enormous losses and distress . Public confidence was restored by Sir Robert Walpole , who was prime minister for nearly twenty - one years . George I. died in 1727 , and was succeeded by his son George II . Sir Robert Walpole ...
... caused enormous losses and distress . Public confidence was restored by Sir Robert Walpole , who was prime minister for nearly twenty - one years . George I. died in 1727 , and was succeeded by his son George II . Sir Robert Walpole ...
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... caused wide - spread ruin ? Who restored con- fidence ? How long was he prime minister ? 4. Who succeeded in 1727 ? What was Walpole's policy ? How was war forced on ? WHAT A DITCH CAN DO . Sultry , Loitered , Threshold , Vanished ...
... caused wide - spread ruin ? Who restored con- fidence ? How long was he prime minister ? 4. Who succeeded in 1727 ? What was Walpole's policy ? How was war forced on ? WHAT A DITCH CAN DO . Sultry , Loitered , Threshold , Vanished ...
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... caused disease in houses ? Yes ; they fre- quently bring on fevers of every kind . How may this be pre- vented ? By cleanliness , good drainage , and plenty of pure water . THE DANGER OF DELAY . DERIVATION . Fr. , délai ; Lat ...
... caused disease in houses ? Yes ; they fre- quently bring on fevers of every kind . How may this be pre- vented ? By cleanliness , good drainage , and plenty of pure water . THE DANGER OF DELAY . DERIVATION . Fr. , délai ; Lat ...
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... caused the total loss of the harvest , and obliged the colonists to get grass from Pennsylvania , and even to import it from Great Britain . A few years since , an act was passed in France to prohibit the destruction of small birds . In ...
... caused the total loss of the harvest , and obliged the colonists to get grass from Pennsylvania , and even to import it from Great Britain . A few years since , an act was passed in France to prohibit the destruction of small birds . In ...
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Page 271 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 201 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 110 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 201 - Though graced with polished manners and fine sense (Yet wanting sensibility), the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Page 271 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 124 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours ; nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright.
Page 64 - A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
Page 111 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 124 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Page 55 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.