The countess and Gertrude; or, Modes of discipline, Volumen4

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Página 300 - The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them alL...
Página 116 - Whose ox or whose ass have I taken? or •whom have I defrauded...
Página 179 - dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind 's free, The body ' s delicate : the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else , Save what beats there. — Filial ingratitude ! i Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand , For lifting food to
Página 329 - He must have had some adequate motive for it," was Mr. Toynbee's sage reflection. " Well, well," he resumed presently, " if we wondered over this will for years, Frank, we could not alter it. We must take it as it is, and make the best of it. And nothing ever turns out so bad as it looks at first. The question is, what are...
Página 399 - He wrote to his father, ending with this line, ' I am, my lovely Gertrude, ever thine.
Página 180 - See here too, my condemnation: ' OI have ta'en Too little care of this!' I will not wish, God forbid I should ever be driven to wish ' that she may feel, How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, To have a thankless child.
Página 153 - Etymology treats of the different sorts of words, or parts of speech, and their derivation and variation.
Página 423 - GERTRUDE. you rather, I am persuaded, look on it as the expansion of a new prospect in your journey through life, in which more various exertions are required, and for which you are now doubly pledged. It is the beginning of a new mode of existence, where care becomes congenial to our hearts, and anxieties are overpaid by feelings with which none but an Almighty and All-merciful hand could have endowed its creatures. You are one of those happy beings to whom one has only to say,
Página 213 - We.take this opportunity to give a hint, with which the disposition we have found in the world to tell us truth, furnishes us. Do young ladies know the stamp under which their estimation passes, in that emporium of small knowledge, a circulating library? In that to which we have, for years, been in the habit of resorting, we have found more good sense and principle than, perhaps, some of the subscribers look for; and the situation, in general, if of nny elevation, affords a view of human nature that...

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