Edinburgh Sketches & MemoriesA. & C. Black, 1892 - 438 pagina's |
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Pagina 251 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Pagina 294 - What art thou afraid of ? Wherefore, like a coward, dost thou for ever pip and whimper, and go cowering and trembling ? Despicable biped ! what is the sum-total of the worst that lies before thee ? Death ? Well, Death; and say the pangs of Tophet too, and all that the Devil and Man may, will, or can do against thee ! Hast thou not a heart; canst thou not suffer...
Pagina 409 - The friends walked on in silence, and then turned to other things. All that evening he was very gentle and serious, speaking, as he seldom did, of divine things, — of death, of sin, of eternity, of salvation ; expressing his simple faith in God and in his Saviour.
Pagina 155 - But push round the Claret — Come, stewards, don't spare it — With rapture you'll drink to the toast that I give : Here, boys, Off with it merrily MELVILLE for ever, and long may he live ! " What were the Whigs doing when...
Pagina 294 - Indignation and Defiance, in a psychological point of view, be fitly called. The Everlasting No had said: 'Behold, thou art fatherless, outcast, and the Universe is mine (the Devil's)'; to which my whole Me now made answer: '/ am not thine, but Free, and forever hate thee!
Pagina 294 - Hast thou not a heart ; canst thou not suffer whatsoever it be; and, as a Child of Freedom, though outcast, trample Tophet itself under thy feet, while it consumes thee! Let it come, then; I will meet it and defy it...
Pagina 294 - Despicable biped ! what is the sum-total of the worst that lies before thee? Death? Well, Death; and say the pangs of Tophet too, and all that the Devil and Man may, will, or can do against thee! Hast thou not a heart; canst thou not suffer whatsoever...
Pagina 237 - What the universities can mainly do for you — what I have found the university did for me, is, that it taught me to read, in various languages, in various sciences; so that I could go into the books which treated of these things, and gradually penetrate into any department I wanted to make myself master of, as I found it suit me.
Pagina 114 - May lang look o'er the shipless seas Before her mate appears. Cease, Emma, cease to hope in vain; Thy lord lies in the clay : The valiant Scots nae reivers thole To carry life away...
Pagina 137 - To the land o' the leal. But sorrow's sel' wears past, John, And joy's a-comin' fast, John, The joy that's aye to last In the land o' the leal. Sae dear's that joy was bought, John, Sae free the battle fought, John, That sinfu' man e'er brought To the land o
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Edinburgh Sketches & Memories Edinburgh Sketches & Memories, David Masson |
| Auteur | David Masson |
| Uitgever | A. & C. Black, 1892 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of Michigan |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 1 dec 2006 |
| Lengte | 438 pagina's |
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