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... young man - himself a genius of the purest ray - admiring the genius of another . I knew him not ; his manner was unobtrusive ; the circle who stood around Maguin had scarcely heard his name . He stood behind in a retired part of the ...
... young man - himself a genius of the purest ray - admiring the genius of another . I knew him not ; his manner was unobtrusive ; the circle who stood around Maguin had scarcely heard his name . He stood behind in a retired part of the ...
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... Young had been at Alma , or had camped upon the heights of Sebastopol , she would have agreed with us that camps are not eligible dwelling- places for ladies . These are the most noticeable books from the seat of war , but others are ...
... Young had been at Alma , or had camped upon the heights of Sebastopol , she would have agreed with us that camps are not eligible dwelling- places for ladies . These are the most noticeable books from the seat of war , but others are ...
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... young ladies who really were not hideous , and who , but for their beastly and universal habit of chewing betel , would have been quite tolerable . The women appear to be even more inveterate chewers than the men ; they literally pass ...
... young ladies who really were not hideous , and who , but for their beastly and universal habit of chewing betel , would have been quite tolerable . The women appear to be even more inveterate chewers than the men ; they literally pass ...
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... young man in any of the villages . There were only very old peasants with the women and children ; even young lads were drawn away , and the chaussées or post - roads were all being mended by women and girls . What desolation will reign ...
... young man in any of the villages . There were only very old peasants with the women and children ; even young lads were drawn away , and the chaussées or post - roads were all being mended by women and girls . What desolation will reign ...
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... Young Athens with her restless fleets ; haughty Sparta with her soldier citizens ; luxurious Corinth with her crowded marts ; fair Ionia with her blue skies and im- passioned bards . Long processions to national temples . Young men with ...
... Young Athens with her restless fleets ; haughty Sparta with her soldier citizens ; luxurious Corinth with her crowded marts ; fair Ionia with her blue skies and im- passioned bards . Long processions to national temples . Young men with ...
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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.