A Whim, and Its ConsequencesTauchnitz, 1847 - 442 pagina's |
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Acton amongst answered Chandos answered Lockwood Arthur Tracy baronet barrister better brother called Chandos Winslow cottage counsel court cried crime dark dear defence door doubt Elmsly Emily evidence exclaimed eyes Faber face father feelings five Fleming garden gazed gipsey woman give gone grounds hand head head-gardener hear heard heart honour hour innocent judge jury knew lady laugh lawyer learned friend look Lord Overton matter mind minutes Miss Tracy morning murder never night Northferry once painful passed perhaps person poor prisoner prove replied Chandos Roberts Rose Tracy Sally Stanley seemed servant side Sir William Winslow smile solicitor soon speak spoke spot strange sure tell things thought Timothy Stanley told tone took Tracy pressed Tracy's trial turned uncle voice walked Whim whole Winslow Abbey witness Woodyard words young gentleman
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Pagina 154 - There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased ; The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Pagina 88 - I AM the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die.
Pagina 277 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Pagina 89 - My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing the fire kindled : and at the last I...
Pagina 136 - ... so exposed to the rude buffets of the world ; no other in its delicate and sensitive organization is so subject to disgust. As a valiant champion of its rights has said: "Boreas assails it; Sol burns it ; Bacchus inflames it. Put forward as a leader in front of the battle, men follow it blindly in a course which it is very often unwilling to pursue, and then blame it for every mischance. Whatever hard blows are given, it comes in for more than its share, and, after weeping tears of blood, has...
Pagina 89 - ... earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in the sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life...
Pagina 136 - ... it sympathetically and remotely. Each organ has its affections and its pleasures ; its misfortunes and its pains ; its peculiarities, generic and individual; its own appropriate history, and its unchangeable destiny and fate. As the eye is supposed (wrongly) to be the most expressive of organs, so is the nose of man the most impressible. Tender in its affections , enlarged in its sympathies, soft in its character, it is in this foul and corrupt world more frequently subject to unpleasant than...
Pagina 136 - It is a summer-bird ; a butterfly; a flower, blossoming on the waste of man's countenance, but inhaling (not exhaling) odours during the bright period when other flowers are in bloom. During the whole of the rest of the year its joys are...
Pagina 135 - LET us write an essay upon noses. Each organ of the human body, but more especially an organ of sensation , has a sort of existence apart — a separate sphere of being from the great commonwealth of which it is a member, just as...
Pagina 136 - ... conspicuously in the very front of the human countenance, the nose is in many respects the most unhappy of human organs; no other is so exposed to the rude buffets of the world ; no other in its delicate and sensitive organization is so subject to disgust. As a valiant champion of its rights has said: "Boreas assails it; Sol burns it ; Bacchus inflames it. Put forward as a leader in front of the battle, men follow it blindly in a course which it is very often unwilling to pursue, and then blame...