The Old BachelorF. Lucas, jun., 1818 - 216페이지 |
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... stand , and even spit , upon my hearth , without giving me a fever , or making me insult him by my looks . I am no spendthrift . The voice of the rake and reveller is never heard within my walls . But then , on the other hand , I am no ...
... stand , and even spit , upon my hearth , without giving me a fever , or making me insult him by my looks . I am no spendthrift . The voice of the rake and reveller is never heard within my walls . But then , on the other hand , I am no ...
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... stands on the summit of a crag , inacces- sible but when I please ; and at the foot of this , lies ny garden , on a gentle slope , fronting to the south , and boun- ded by a river . I am well aware that the reader will smile at the ...
... stands on the summit of a crag , inacces- sible but when I please ; and at the foot of this , lies ny garden , on a gentle slope , fronting to the south , and boun- ded by a river . I am well aware that the reader will smile at the ...
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... standing as well as justice by taking the tone of modesty than that of arrogance ; and that a fair comparison of ei- ther of those countries with ours , would give him no ground of triumph , before an impartial tribunal , on the score ...
... standing as well as justice by taking the tone of modesty than that of arrogance ; and that a fair comparison of ei- ther of those countries with ours , would give him no ground of triumph , before an impartial tribunal , on the score ...
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... stand for no more than it deserves . Af- ter this confession , I must confess farther , that my brother Galen's letter has alarmed me exceedingly , and brought to my mind the fable of the bear , who , stung by a single bee , as you have ...
... stand for no more than it deserves . Af- ter this confession , I must confess farther , that my brother Galen's letter has alarmed me exceedingly , and brought to my mind the fable of the bear , who , stung by a single bee , as you have ...
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... standing and confirmed insanity . In this class of victims to a busy indolence , next to those who devote their whole lives to the unprofitable bu- siness of writing works of imagination , are those who spend the whole of their's in ...
... standing and confirmed insanity . In this class of victims to a busy indolence , next to those who devote their whole lives to the unprofitable bu- siness of writing works of imagination , are those who spend the whole of their's in ...
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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.