The History of a ManGeorge Gilfillan A. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1856 - 357 pagina's |
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... minds , when they hear of or witness a birth . They see only the poor paltry threescore and ten years of mortal life that are to follow , and not the awful roll of cycles of in- numerable centuries ! Perhaps men never feel less , or are ...
... minds , when they hear of or witness a birth . They see only the poor paltry threescore and ten years of mortal life that are to follow , and not the awful roll of cycles of in- numerable centuries ! Perhaps men never feel less , or are ...
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... mind . Another advan- tage , of which I never availed myself , was the ease with which Gaelic , as well as English , might be mastered in a parish which was one half Highland , and where my father , although born in the Lowlands , had ...
... mind . Another advan- tage , of which I never availed myself , was the ease with which Gaelic , as well as English , might be mastered in a parish which was one half Highland , and where my father , although born in the Lowlands , had ...
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... mind , the knowledge I already had . Now he encouraged me to ask questions of him ; now he stooped over a flower , and told me something about its con- struction , or repeated the famous story of Beattie and 6 THE HISTORY OF A MAN .
... mind , the knowledge I already had . Now he encouraged me to ask questions of him ; now he stooped over a flower , and told me something about its con- struction , or repeated the famous story of Beattie and 6 THE HISTORY OF A MAN .
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... mind had been roused to a certain pitch ; but whenever I reached the climax of one of my darling novels , or finished satisfactorily one of my internal compositions , I turned round and saw the mountains and the heavens in a new light ...
... mind had been roused to a certain pitch ; but whenever I reached the climax of one of my darling novels , or finished satisfactorily one of my internal compositions , I turned round and saw the mountains and the heavens in a new light ...
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... mind , and a ready logic and rough repartee , which secured him considerable power amongst the would - bes of the village , whom he rated at their true value , and exposed with much adroitness . He told me , although in a conceited ...
... mind , and a ready logic and rough repartee , which secured him considerable power amongst the would - bes of the village , whom he rated at their true value , and exposed with much adroitness . He told me , although in a conceited ...
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