The Old BachelorF. Lucas, jun., 1818 - 216페이지 |
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... directed my first efforts to the profession of law . Her will was my law ; and I knew no pleasure on earth equal to that of obeying it . I entered , therefore , at once , on the Herculean labor of the law and an Herculean one I made it ...
... directed my first efforts to the profession of law . Her will was my law ; and I knew no pleasure on earth equal to that of obeying it . I entered , therefore , at once , on the Herculean labor of the law and an Herculean one I made it ...
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... directed so to do or to hold correspondence with any other than his father ; and forbidden , too , under pain of a father's displeasure and his curse . The motive of these measures was well understood ; it was to dissolve the at ...
... directed so to do or to hold correspondence with any other than his father ; and forbidden , too , under pain of a father's displeasure and his curse . The motive of these measures was well understood ; it was to dissolve the at ...
92 페이지
... directed simply to Mr. Richard Vamper . I shall be glad to be told the principles upon which this distinction is founded . - Is it on wealth ? I would have them to know that I can lay down dollar for dollar with . the best of them . It ...
... directed simply to Mr. Richard Vamper . I shall be glad to be told the principles upon which this distinction is founded . - Is it on wealth ? I would have them to know that I can lay down dollar for dollar with . the best of them . It ...
95 페이지
... directed to " Peter Schryphel , Esquire . " Being accustomed to see our coun- try merchants sell their goods as if they were doing a favor rather than receiving one , I was at first a little suspicious of so much kindness and civility ...
... directed to " Peter Schryphel , Esquire . " Being accustomed to see our coun- try merchants sell their goods as if they were doing a favor rather than receiving one , I was at first a little suspicious of so much kindness and civility ...
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... directed towards him , can scarcely ever be induced to make trial of his strength . He is fearful of disap- pointing the expectations which he imagines he has every where raised , and of risking an already well established reputation ...
... directed towards him , can scarcely ever be induced to make trial of his strength . He is fearful of disap- pointing the expectations which he imagines he has every where raised , and of risking an already well established reputation ...
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106 페이지 - There was no ambition of eloquence, no effort to shine, in anything which came from him. There was nothing which made any demand either upon your allegiance or your admiration. His manner was as unaffected as infancy. It was nature's self. He talked like an old patriarch ; and his plainness and simplicity put you, at once, at your ease, and gave you the full...
145 페이지 - What an august ! what an amazing conception, if human imagination can conceive it, does this give of the works of the Creator ! Thousands of thousands of suns, multiplied without end, and ranged all around us, at immense distances from each other...
89 페이지 - I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.
119 페이지 - Thucydides, and have studied and admired the master-states of the world— that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia.
16 페이지 - If I attack the vicious, I shall only set upon them in a body ; and will not be provoked by the worst usage I can receive from others, to make an example of any particular criminal.
206 페이지 - God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
180 페이지 - The greater part of universities have not even been very forward to adopt those improvements after they were made; and several of those learned societies have chosen to remain for a long time the /sanctuaries in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices found shelter and protection, after they had been hunted out of every other corner of the world.
205 페이지 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
107 페이지 - He had commenced life with an attention so vigilant, that nothing had escaped his observation, and a judgment so solid, that every incident was turned to advantage. His youth had not been wasted in idleness, nor overcast by intemperance. He had been all his life a close and deep reader, as well as thinker ; and, by the force of his own powers, had wrought up the raw materials, which he had gathered from books, with such exquisite skill and felicity, that he had added a hundred fold to their original...
107 페이지 - It seemed to be as much the effect of a systematic and salutary exercise of the mind, as of its superior organization. His wit was of the first order.