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Pagina v
... give timely warning of the author's style - a very important question to all readers who are not alone captivated by the bare narration of extraordinary incidents and exciting conflicts , either bodily or mental ; most important in a ...
... give timely warning of the author's style - a very important question to all readers who are not alone captivated by the bare narration of extraordinary incidents and exciting conflicts , either bodily or mental ; most important in a ...
Pagina vi
... give a reason for his taking so decided a step as to appear in print ; and here are my reasons . The Publishers of The Gentle Life , to whose judg- ment and taste the excellent printing , clear type , and presentable appearance , which ...
... give a reason for his taking so decided a step as to appear in print ; and here are my reasons . The Publishers of The Gentle Life , to whose judg- ment and taste the excellent printing , clear type , and presentable appearance , which ...
Pagina 1
... gives us a clue to what is the next most absorbing : - " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled , The first dark day of nothingness , The last of danger and distress ; Before decay's effacing fingers Have ...
... gives us a clue to what is the next most absorbing : - " He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled , The first dark day of nothingness , The last of danger and distress ; Before decay's effacing fingers Have ...
Pagina 5
... give and to work , the Englishman is not to be upbraided on that score . Nor is the Irishman , a component part of us , who is generous to a fault , who will give his money , his bread , and his sword with equal recklessness ; nor is ...
... give and to work , the Englishman is not to be upbraided on that score . Nor is the Irishman , a component part of us , who is generous to a fault , who will give his money , his bread , and his sword with equal recklessness ; nor is ...
Pagina 19
James Hain Friswell. examiners and professors , and pretty stiff examination - papers they give their lectures ; but we are not speaking of the edu- cated , but of the self - educating classes . How about mecha- nics ' institutes and ...
James Hain Friswell. examiners and professors , and pretty stiff examination - papers they give their lectures ; but we are not speaking of the edu- cated , but of the self - educating classes . How about mecha- nics ' institutes and ...
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Æsop amongst aquiline Basil Montagu beauty believe Ben Jonson better brain called character Christian classes common crime criminal cruel cursed doubt dream dress eating England English evil eyes face faith feeling fellow fool gentleman GEORGE HICKS give Goodwyn Barmby Greek fire grow handsomely bound happiness HARRISON WEIR heart human hundred Ireland Irish John Bull Jonas Hanway judgment Julius Cæsar King labour ladies lawyers lips live London look Lord matter means memory mind morocco murder nation nature neckerchief never noble nose observation once pawnbroker peace perhaps philosopher Plato poet poor Pope pounds sterling priests punishment rich Samuel Romilly Shakspeare society soldiers soul sure teetotallers tell temperance things thought tion told true truth Utopian whilst wife wise wishes woman women wonderful words writes young youth
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Pagina 299 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
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 5 - 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!
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 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 227 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Pagina 252 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Pagina 2 - Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, The soul that rises with us our life's star has had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar...
Pagina 309 - Choice Editions of Choice Books. New Editions. Illustrated by CW Cope, RA, T. Creswick, RA. Edward Duncan, Birket Foster, JC Horsley, ARA. George Hicks. R. Redgrave, RA, C.
Pagina 268 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.