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... fire - side , and the new book still read with quiet interest , as regularly as if no despot's ambition had disturbed the world . We But we must descend from speculations upon the general prospects of literature , to the exa- minations ...
... fire - side , and the new book still read with quiet interest , as regularly as if no despot's ambition had disturbed the world . We But we must descend from speculations upon the general prospects of literature , to the exa- minations ...
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... fire , easy chair , and cigar , ) at many elephant hunts , and we are quite capable of cor- elephant - hunting is , after all , quite a mistake- roborating Mr. Sullivan , when he says that " too tame to afford the necessary amount of ...
... fire , easy chair , and cigar , ) at many elephant hunts , and we are quite capable of cor- elephant - hunting is , after all , quite a mistake- roborating Mr. Sullivan , when he says that " too tame to afford the necessary amount of ...
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... fire and sword every building , beast , or man , that owns Austria . These Wallachians surprise and destroy the Castle of the Bardy Family , and their leader , horrified at their crimes , explodes a barrel of powder , and rids the ...
... fire and sword every building , beast , or man , that owns Austria . These Wallachians surprise and destroy the Castle of the Bardy Family , and their leader , horrified at their crimes , explodes a barrel of powder , and rids the ...
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... fire has proved so effectual to frighten the women , why not try it on the men also ? is " Highway robberies continue to be very frequent on the Chelsea , Fulham , and Kensing- ton roads , and not an assize paper appears without many ...
... fire has proved so effectual to frighten the women , why not try it on the men also ? is " Highway robberies continue to be very frequent on the Chelsea , Fulham , and Kensing- ton roads , and not an assize paper appears without many ...
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... fire of the place . We may mention , en passant , that there are several distinct systems of fortification in use in different countries , and that these are adopted with or without modifications , according as the work to be covered is ...
... fire of the place . We may mention , en passant , that there are several distinct systems of fortification in use in different countries , and that these are adopted with or without modifications , according as the work to be covered is ...
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Página 350 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Página 350 - Comenius. in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Página 392 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Página 391 - SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! 2 What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name.
Página 16 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Página 397 - Hervey,. would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be express'd. In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known : In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own.
Página 271 - Yes, I agree, he is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Página 350 - But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things, nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible, as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature, the same method is necessarily to be followed in all discreet teaching.
Página 391 - Is that enchanted moan only the swell Of the long waves that roll in yonder bay? And hark the clock within, the silver knell Of twelve sweet hours that past in bridal white, And died to live, long as my pulses play ; But now by this my love has closed her sight And give,.
Página 273 - We talk of human life as a journey, but how variously is that journey performed ! There are some who come forth girt, and shod, and mantled, to walk on velvet lawns and smooth terraces, where every gale is arrested, and every beam is tempered. There are others who walk on the Alpine paths of life, against driving misery, and through stormy sorrows, over sharp afflictions ; walk with bare feet, and naked breast, jaded, mangled, and chilled.