10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRETENCELESS»
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Now suppose an army of Frenchmen garrisoning England, as an army of
Englishmen (ohl pretenceless and inhuman tyranny!) are garrisoning France. In
that case, what would the description of our condition be? What but that the
dominion we ...
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A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts: On the Most ...
Then the best, of most name, estate, and honesty, are yours. The remain a
headless, witless, senseless, pretenceless rabble, that must drop of themselves,
and in a few years all things be peaceable again, and run in their own proper
channel.
Sir Walter Scott, Baron John Somers Somers, 1813
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The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected
As to the preservation of Sweden, had that been an object, no great exertion
would have been necessary :—not to have destroyed her liberty;—not to have
plunged her into a pretenceless war against a superior enemy. If such be
preservation, ...
Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring, 1842
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Church-of-Englandism and Its Catechism Examined: Preceded by ...
In the increase--the great and sudden increase—thus acquired by the goodly
fellowship of pretenceless truants, may be read the revelation of divers mysteries,
by which all attempt at interpretation might otherwise have been set at nought. 1.
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Selections from the British Poets from the time of Chaucer ...
... still with pious fervour they To Gunga veneration pay, And with pretenceless
rite prefer The wishes of their hearts to her. The maid or matr0n, as she throws C/
wmpuc or lotus, Bél or rose, Or sends the quivering light afloat In shallow cup or ...
David Lester RICHARDSON, 1840
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Flowers and Flower-gardens
And still with pious fervour they To Gunga veneration pay And with pretenceless
rite prefer, The wishes of their hearts to her. The maid or matron, as she throws
Champac or lotus, Bel or rose, Or sends the quivering light afloat In shallow cup
or ...
David Lester Richardson, 1855
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The prose works of John Milton: with an introductory review
Have they not been as the Canaanitcs, and Philistines, to this kingdom? what
treasons, what re,volts to the pope? what rebellions, and those the hasest and
most pretenceless, have they not been chief in ? What could monarchy think,
when ...
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Sabbath haltings in life's wilderness; or, sacred poems for ...
How mean the pomp, how vain the vaunt, Of kingly dome, or priestly fane,
Compared with that pretenceless haunt, That peor, but heav'nly-honour'd train,
And that meek guest, whose power divine Earth's simplest waters flush'd to wine l
v.
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Martin Beck, Or, The Story of an Australian Settler
... being fair by a slight tint of tan; his hair brown; his eye of that peculiar gre which
in the hours of common thought is so unsuggestive an pretenceless, but glitters
and flashes under strong excitement like the crystals of a mineral in the sunlight.
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Life and Campaigns of Arthur, Duke of Wellington, K.G. ...
l l conscience wrung by mental agony and disappointment, andthought alone of
those who had been the victims of an unjust invasion and pretenceless war. After
an interval of but two brief days, the image of Portuguese suffering again ...
George Newenham Wright, 1841
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... I find that I am indeed struck by the American way of thinking about other countries, including India: its unapologetic, pretenceless stance that, ... «Livemint, Jan 11»
