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... written above than at any other . Prefaces are things difficult to write , and ungrateful because so few people read them . Yet , if we take the words of a sound scholar , they are " to be weighed and tasted , " as well as the matter of ...
... written above than at any other . Prefaces are things difficult to write , and ungrateful because so few people read them . Yet , if we take the words of a sound scholar , they are " to be weighed and tasted , " as well as the matter of ...
Pagina 7
... written a violent philippic against her , said , with a sudden touch of conscience , " Ha ! if he did but know against me half as much as I know against myself ! " Self therefore needs to be guarded . It is never quite sta- tionary . It ...
... written a violent philippic against her , said , with a sudden touch of conscience , " Ha ! if he did but know against me half as much as I know against myself ! " Self therefore needs to be guarded . It is never quite sta- tionary . It ...
Pagina 17
... written in 1848 by E. L. Blanchard for the Puppet Show , a show long since closed : — " We want no flag , no flaunting rag , for LIBERTY to fight ; We want no blaze of murderous guns to struggle for the right : Our spears and swords are ...
... written in 1848 by E. L. Blanchard for the Puppet Show , a show long since closed : — " We want no flag , no flaunting rag , for LIBERTY to fight ; We want no blaze of murderous guns to struggle for the right : Our spears and swords are ...
Pagina 50
... written upon the fashions of the head . Fancy its being considered awfully vulgar for a man to wear his own hair ! Imagine for a moment one's head being continually shaved , and yet wearing a wig as like your own hair as pos- sible ...
... written upon the fashions of the head . Fancy its being considered awfully vulgar for a man to wear his own hair ! Imagine for a moment one's head being continually shaved , and yet wearing a wig as like your own hair as pos- sible ...
Pagina 58
... written on cookery are very nume- rous . A cook's library would be a curious , and by no means an uninteresting collection . Mrs. Rundell's cookery - book , it is said , made the fortune of the publishing house of Murray , and as a ...
... written on cookery are very nume- rous . A cook's library would be a curious , and by no means an uninteresting collection . Mrs. Rundell's cookery - book , it is said , made the fortune of the publishing house of Murray , and as a ...
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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.