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... thought it most prudent to repair myself to the French officer , and request his safe- conduct on board the Commodore's ship . As I passed along the wharf the scene was curious enough . The Frenchmen , who had come ashore in filth and ...
... thought it most prudent to repair myself to the French officer , and request his safe- conduct on board the Commodore's ship . As I passed along the wharf the scene was curious enough . The Frenchmen , who had come ashore in filth and ...
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... thought struck him of writing an heroic poem to be called ' Olaus the Great , or the Conquest of Mona , ' in which , after the manner of Virgil , he might introduce in prophetic song the future fortunes of the family ; -among others ...
... thought struck him of writing an heroic poem to be called ' Olaus the Great , or the Conquest of Mona , ' in which , after the manner of Virgil , he might introduce in prophetic song the future fortunes of the family ; -among others ...
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... thought ; and frequent visitors brought to the table , where master and pupils dined in common , the freshest Cambridge gossip of the graver sort . Little Macaulay received much kindness from Dean Milner , the President of Queen's ...
... thought ; and frequent visitors brought to the table , where master and pupils dined in common , the freshest Cambridge gossip of the graver sort . Little Macaulay received much kindness from Dean Milner , the President of Queen's ...
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... thought . I have always admired a saying of one of the old heathen philosophers . When a friend was condoling with him that he so well deserved gods , and yet that they did not shower their favours on him , as on some others less worthy ...
... thought . I have always admired a saying of one of the old heathen philosophers . When a friend was condoling with him that he so well deserved gods , and yet that they did not shower their favours on him , as on some others less worthy ...
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... thought for forty years , at the end of which time he repeated them both without missing , -or , as far as he knew , changing , —a single word.1 As he grew older , this wonderful power became impaired so far that getting by rote the ...
... thought for forty years , at the end of which time he repeated them both without missing , -or , as far as he knew , changing , —a single word.1 As he grew older , this wonderful power became impaired so far that getting by rote the ...
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Página 116 - For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
Página 292 - Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India; and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone.
Página 572 - THERE is a change — and I am poor; Your Love hath been, nor long ago, A Fountain at my fond Heart's door, Whose only business was to flow; And flow it did; not taking heed Of its own bounty, or my need.
Página 272 - I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ, and -him crucified.
Página 42 - MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned ; Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
Página 621 - I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
Página 476 - Amidst the din of all things fell and vile, Hate's yell, and envy's hiss, and folly's bray, Remember me ; and with an unforced smile See riches, baubles, flatterers pass away. " Yes : they will pass away ; nor deem it strange : They come and go, as comes and goes the sea : And let them come and go : thou, through all change, Fix thy firm gaze on virtue and on me.
Página 33 - May'st thou live to know and fear Him, Trust and love Him all thy days ; Then go dwell for ever near Him, See His face, and sing His praise...
Página 678 - ... was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt, as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century— and there, if every other leaf were powerless,...
Página 321 - During the last thirteen months I have read ^schylus twice ; Sophocles twice ; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius ; Quintus Calaber ; Theocritus twice ; Herodotus ; Thucydides ; almost all Xenophon's works ; almost all Plato ; Aristotle's Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him ; the whole of Plutarch's Lives ; about half of Lucian ; two or three books of Athenaeus ; Plautus twice; Terence twice ; Lucretius twice ; Catullus; Tibullus;...