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Pagina 10
... less selfish , crying when they are denied anything , seeking immediate gratification , hungry for indulgence and for pleasure . Youth itself , beautiful in its force and strength , is yet vain , empty , and selfish . Even love between ...
... less selfish , crying when they are denied anything , seeking immediate gratification , hungry for indulgence and for pleasure . Youth itself , beautiful in its force and strength , is yet vain , empty , and selfish . Even love between ...
Pagina 18
... less finniking , manlier and rougher in their dress , bolder in their bearing , more upright , through drilling and other matters , they have become much less observant towards women and weak persons . They are more tolerant , because ...
... less finniking , manlier and rougher in their dress , bolder in their bearing , more upright , through drilling and other matters , they have become much less observant towards women and weak persons . They are more tolerant , because ...
Pagina 30
... less refined and delicate , so far as physique goes , than any- thing we , Western people , class under the name of Woman ! She has an awful ponderosity of frame ; not pulpy , like the looser development of our few fat women , but ...
... less refined and delicate , so far as physique goes , than any- thing we , Western people , class under the name of Woman ! She has an awful ponderosity of frame ; not pulpy , like the looser development of our few fat women , but ...
Pagina 31
... less it has a good marriage in it , and some of our best stories show us man and wife as nearly one as two sentient beings ever can be . It is not unusual for widower or widow to die broken - hearted , or to live on in perpetual ...
... less it has a good marriage in it , and some of our best stories show us man and wife as nearly one as two sentient beings ever can be . It is not unusual for widower or widow to die broken - hearted , or to live on in perpetual ...
Pagina 35
... less to his taste . “ Whether there be any ethnological facts about the suc- cessive immigrations of For - bolgs , Tuatha - na - Danains , and Milesians , " says Professor Goldwin Smith , " the stories of which fill every history of ...
... less to his taste . “ Whether there be any ethnological facts about the suc- cessive immigrations of For - bolgs , Tuatha - na - Danains , and Milesians , " says Professor Goldwin Smith , " the stories of which fill every history of ...
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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
Populaire passages
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.