The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, 3. kötetJ. Cumberland, 1826 |
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15. oldal
... attend on his person . SAGACITY OF A NEGRO BOY . Philip Thicknesse tells the following amusing story of a little negro boy in the West Indies . His master finding him a child of good parts , often conversed familiarly with him ; but ...
... attend on his person . SAGACITY OF A NEGRO BOY . Philip Thicknesse tells the following amusing story of a little negro boy in the West Indies . His master finding him a child of good parts , often conversed familiarly with him ; but ...
17. oldal
... attended at table at last perceived the cause , for Charles would sooner have died than betrayed his dog ; which he knew intended no injury . Quintus Curtius was one of the first books put into Charles's hands ; and on being asked what ...
... attended at table at last perceived the cause , for Charles would sooner have died than betrayed his dog ; which he knew intended no injury . Quintus Curtius was one of the first books put into Charles's hands ; and on being asked what ...
37. oldal
... attended By slaves , that take their humours for a warrant To break into the bloody house of life ; And on the winking of authority To understand a law , to know the meaning Of dang'rous majesty ; when perchance it frowns More upon ...
... attended By slaves , that take their humours for a warrant To break into the bloody house of life ; And on the winking of authority To understand a law , to know the meaning Of dang'rous majesty ; when perchance it frowns More upon ...
44. oldal
... attended the school about ten months , on the 26th of August , 1814 , he was examined with the rest of the pupils ; in reading and writing German , in Hungarian orthography , his catechism , and drawing , he bore away the highest prize ...
... attended the school about ten months , on the 26th of August , 1814 , he was examined with the rest of the pupils ; in reading and writing German , in Hungarian orthography , his catechism , and drawing , he bore away the highest prize ...
74. oldal
... attended the queen on her delivery , to misrepresent the sex of the child . Gustavus , on being informed of the mistake by Catharine , his sister , smilingly replied , " Let us , however , thank God ; this girl I trust will prove not ...
... attended the queen on her delivery , to misrepresent the sex of the child . Gustavus , on being informed of the mistake by Catharine , his sister , smilingly replied , " Let us , however , thank God ; this girl I trust will prove not ...
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148. oldal - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have...
105. oldal - Weep with me, all you that read This little story : And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
26. oldal - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
64. oldal - One day, as I was sitting alone on a bench in the school, melancholy, and almost ready to weep at the recollection of what I had already suffered, and expecting at the same time my tormentor every moment, these words of the Psalmist came into my mind,— ' I will not be afraid of what man can do unto me.
154. oldal - When he was about eleven, he one day wrote a separate theme for every boy in his class, which consisted of about twelve or fourteen. The master said he had never known them write so well upon any subject before, and could not refrain from expressing his astonishment at the excellence of Henry's.
76. oldal - The people at the mouth of the den, who had listened with painful anxiety, hearing the growling of the wolf, and supposing their friend to be in the...
154. oldal - In durance vile must pass the hours ; There con the scholiast's dreary lines, Where no bright ray of genius shines, And close to rugged learning cling, While laughs around the jocund spring. How gladly would my soul forego • All that arithmeticians know, Or stiff grammarians quaintly teach, Or all that industry can reach, To taste each morn of all the joys That with the laughing sun arise ; And unconstrained to rove along The bushy brakes and glens among ; And woo the muse's gentle power In unfrequented...
110. oldal - They were first inclined to set him up as a mark to shoot at; but the chief interfered, and seizing him by the shoulder asked him if he could run fast? Colter, who had been some time amongst the Kee-kat-sa, or Crow Indians, had in a considerable degree acquired the Blackfoot language, and was also well acquainted with Indian customs.
111. oldal - ... that the Indians were very much scattered, and that he had gained ground to a considerable distance from the main body; but one Indian, who carried a spear, was much before all the rest, and not more than a hundred yards from him.
153. oldal - That officer answered that considering the handsome way in which battle was offered by the enemy, their apparent determination for a fair trial of strength, and the situation of the land, he thought it would be a glorious result if fourteen were captured. He replied: "I shall not be satisfied with less than twenty.