Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta, Curious, Humorous, and InstructiveT.N. Kurtz, 1860 - 527 oldal |
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... that she had gleaned : and it was about an ephah of barley . " - RUTH ii . 17 . SECOND EDITION . BALTIMORE : T. NEWTON KURTZ , No. 151 WEST PRATT STREET . Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1860 . - GLEANINGS.
... that she had gleaned : and it was about an ephah of barley . " - RUTH ii . 17 . SECOND EDITION . BALTIMORE : T. NEWTON KURTZ , No. 151 WEST PRATT STREET . Entered according to Act of Congress , in the year 1860 . - GLEANINGS.
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... according to Act of Congress , in the year 1860 , by T. NEWTON KURTZ , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maryland . STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON & CO . PHILADELPHIA . ABBOʻLIA GIFT PN43 B62 1860 Prefatory . I am not ignorant.
... according to Act of Congress , in the year 1860 , by T. NEWTON KURTZ , in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Maryland . STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON & CO . PHILADELPHIA . ABBOʻLIA GIFT PN43 B62 1860 Prefatory . I am not ignorant.
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... according to Athenæus , wrote an ode from which the letter sigma was carefully excluded . This caprice of Tryphiodorus has not been without its imi- tators . Peter de Riga , a canon of Rheims , wrote a summary of the Bible in twenty ...
... according to Athenæus , wrote an ode from which the letter sigma was carefully excluded . This caprice of Tryphiodorus has not been without its imi- tators . Peter de Riga , a canon of Rheims , wrote a summary of the Bible in twenty ...
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... according to an old book , cost the author a world of foolish labor : - Odo tenet mulum , Madidam mappam tenet anna . The following much - admired reciprocal lines of Sidoneus Apollinaris , the reader will find on perusal , either ...
... according to an old book , cost the author a world of foolish labor : - Odo tenet mulum , Madidam mappam tenet anna . The following much - admired reciprocal lines of Sidoneus Apollinaris , the reader will find on perusal , either ...
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... According to the rules laid down by Ausonius , the author of the celebrated Nuptial Cento , the pieces may be taken from the same poet , or from several ; and the verses may be either taken entire , or divided into two , one half to be ...
... According to the rules laid down by Ausonius , the author of the celebrated Nuptial Cento , the pieces may be taken from the same poet , or from several ; and the verses may be either taken entire , or divided into two , one half to be ...
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488. oldal - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
507. oldal - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History.
436. oldal - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
375. oldal - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
219. oldal - Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
487. oldal - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
365. oldal - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
336. oldal - More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness...
73. oldal - We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best...
337. oldal - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...