About in the World: Essays by the Author of "The Gentle Life".Sampson Low, son, & Marston, 1864 - 312 pagina's |
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... believe this to be so very bad a world as it is represented . " The Second Edition has been revised , and one or two very apparent errors have been corrected . It only remains for the Author to thank the Public most warmly for the ...
... believe this to be so very bad a world as it is represented . " The Second Edition has been revised , and one or two very apparent errors have been corrected . It only remains for the Author to thank the Public most warmly for the ...
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... believe that in boys , and in girls too , the impulses towards the higher virtues of benevolence and generosity are very weak . Some philoso- phers have denied altogether that they exist , and insist that these virtues are implanted as ...
... believe that in boys , and in girls too , the impulses towards the higher virtues of benevolence and generosity are very weak . Some philoso- phers have denied altogether that they exist , and insist that these virtues are implanted as ...
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... believe the historic fables , Alexander wept because there were no more continents to conquer , and Diogenes threw away a wooden bowl which he carried when he found that he could just as well drink from the hollow of his hand . The man ...
... believe the historic fables , Alexander wept because there were no more continents to conquer , and Diogenes threw away a wooden bowl which he carried when he found that he could just as well drink from the hollow of his hand . The man ...
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... believe ? We thought that war should be no more . We were to have the peaceful rivalry of trade : nation was to vie with nation only by underselling it , and working the harder . What a wonder it was that we did not spike all our guns ...
... believe ? We thought that war should be no more . We were to have the peaceful rivalry of trade : nation was to vie with nation only by underselling it , and working the harder . What a wonder it was that we did not spike all our guns ...
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... believe , preaches up the fall of the Pope , and the great rejoicing of the nations , about the year 1868 , or it may be some four years later ; but a much more thoughtful man than he thought otherwise . " The time will come , " said ...
... believe , preaches up the fall of the Pope , and the great rejoicing of the nations , about the year 1868 , or it may be some four years later ; but a much more thoughtful man than he thought otherwise . " The time will come , " said ...
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About in the World: Essays by the Author of "The Gentle Life". James Hain Friswell Volledige weergave - 1864 |
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Pagina 95 - Happy the man, who sees a God employed In all the good and ill, that chequer life! Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme.
Pagina 240 - Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Pagina 3 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon ! Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range, Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...
Pagina 208 - Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie; Peace in her vineyard— yes!
Pagina 283 - The Ladies' Reader : with some Plain and Simple Rules and Instructions for a good style of Reading aloud, and a variety of Selections for Exercise. By George Vandenhoff, MA, Author of " The Art of Elocution." Fcap. 8vo. Cloth, 5s. The Clerical Assistant : an Elocutionary Guide to the Reading of the Scriptures and the Liturgy, several passages being marked for Pitch and Emphasis: with some Observations on Clerical Brouchitus. By George Vandenhoff, MA Fcap, 8vo. Cloth, 3s. 6d The Art of Elocution as...
Pagina 227 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Pagina 283 - Prince Albert's Golden Precepts. Second Edition, with Photograph. A Memorial of the Prince Consort; comprising Maxims and Extracts from Addresses of His late Royal Highness. Many now for the first time collected and carefully arranged. With an Index. Royal 16mo. beautifully printed on toned paper, cloth, gilt edges., 2s.
Pagina 283 - Publishers' Circular (The), and General Record of British and Foreign Literature ; giving a transcript of the title-page of every work published in Great Britain, and every work of interest published abroad, with lists of all the publishing houses. Published regularly on the ist and isth of every Month, and forwarded post free to all parts of the world on payment of 8s.
Pagina 283 - The Laws of Life, with especial reference to the Education of Girls. By Elizabeth Blackwell, MD New Edition, revised by the Author, 12mo. cloth, 3s.