The Writings of Mark TwainHarper, 1911 |
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Pagina 35
... speaking of wages , reminds me of prices of merchandise . In Paris you pay twelve dollars a dozen for Jouvin's best kid gloves ; gloves of about as good quality sell here at three or four dollars a dozen . You pay five and six dollars ...
... speaking of wages , reminds me of prices of merchandise . In Paris you pay twelve dollars a dozen for Jouvin's best kid gloves ; gloves of about as good quality sell here at three or four dollars a dozen . You pay five and six dollars ...
Pagina 44
... speak - for in the great , chief thoroughfares ( Merchant Street and the Street of Fortune ) have I not seen with my own eyes how for two hundred years at least the pavements were not repaired ! — how ruts five and even ten inches deep ...
... speak - for in the great , chief thoroughfares ( Merchant Street and the Street of Fortune ) have I not seen with my own eyes how for two hundred years at least the pavements were not repaired ! — how ruts five and even ten inches deep ...
Pagina 45
... speak with feel- ing on this subject , because I caught my foot in one of those ruts , and the sadness that came over me when I saw the first poor skeleton , with ashes and lava sticking to it , was tempered by the reflection that may ...
... speak with feel- ing on this subject , because I caught my foot in one of those ruts , and the sadness that came over me when I saw the first poor skeleton , with ashes and lava sticking to it , was tempered by the reflection that may ...
Pagina 77
... the Hellespont we saw where the original first shoddy contract mentioned in history was carried out , and the parties of the second part " gently rebuked 66 by Xerxes I speak of the famous bridge of boats The Innocents Abroad 77.
... the Hellespont we saw where the original first shoddy contract mentioned in history was carried out , and the parties of the second part " gently rebuked 66 by Xerxes I speak of the famous bridge of boats The Innocents Abroad 77.
Pagina 78
Mark Twain. by Xerxes I speak of the famous bridge of boats which Xerxes ordered to be built over the narrowest part of the Hellespont ( where it is only two or three miles wide ) . A moderate gale destroyed the flimsy structure , and ...
Mark Twain. by Xerxes I speak of the famous bridge of boats which Xerxes ordered to be built over the narrowest part of the Hellespont ( where it is only two or three miles wide ) . A moderate gale destroyed the flimsy structure , and ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 238 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Pagina 143 - Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Pagina 179 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day. Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Pagina 317 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Pagina 308 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Pagina 308 - And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. And he came and touched the bier ; and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, arise ; and he that was dead sat up, and began to speak ; and he delivered him to his mother.
Pagina 236 - And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Pagina 69 - For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars...
Pagina 210 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean?
Pagina 238 - And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you : and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. 34 Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land ; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.