My Favorite Book-shelf: A Collection of Interesting & Instructive Reading from Famous AuthorsP. Elder, 1903 - 292 oldal |
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... soon as he expected , left it in the window , and went about his business . The lady soon after coming into the parlour , and seeing her monkey look upon a paper with great earnestness , took it up , IYAYIMYMIYIYI and to this day is in ...
... soon as he expected , left it in the window , and went about his business . The lady soon after coming into the parlour , and seeing her monkey look upon a paper with great earnestness , took it up , IYAYIMYMIYIYI and to this day is in ...
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... soon listed myself in the service of a lion . I used to yelp near his den about midnight , which was his time of rouzing and seeking after his prey . He always followed me in the rear , and when I had run down a fat buck , a wild goat ...
... soon listed myself in the service of a lion . I used to yelp near his den about midnight , which was his time of rouzing and seeking after his prey . He always followed me in the rear , and when I had run down a fat buck , a wild goat ...
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... soon , and seldom drive business home to the full period , but content themselves with a mediocrity of success . Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present , because the virtues of ...
... soon , and seldom drive business home to the full period , but content themselves with a mediocrity of success . Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present , because the virtues of ...
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... soon as the hand of the enquirer All Man Is a Microcosm . has arranged the objects by the aid of which he is to be shown the incidents of his life . things are linked together in the phenomenal world . Every motion springs from a cause ...
... soon as the hand of the enquirer All Man Is a Microcosm . has arranged the objects by the aid of which he is to be shown the incidents of his life . things are linked together in the phenomenal world . Every motion springs from a cause ...
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... soon grew into friendship , and lasted without diminution till Johnson's death in 1784. Yet during these twenty - one years , as Croker has established by an elaborate calculation , the friends were together only two hun- dred and ...
... soon grew into friendship , and lasted without diminution till Johnson's death in 1784. Yet during these twenty - one years , as Croker has established by an elaborate calculation , the friends were together only two hun- dred and ...
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My Favorite Book-Shelf; A Collection of Interesting & Instructive Reading ... Charles Josselyn Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
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amusement Anne Hathaway architecture ARTHUR O'LEARY Aspenden beautiful better Bishop Butler Bo-bo brain Brummell called CAXTONIANA character Clairvoyance conversation death dinner effect enjoyment evil exercise eyes feel fortune genius give GLENCORE GOUT hand happy heart human hundred Johnson Julius Cæsar kind knew knowledge labor laugh LES MISERAbles less literary literature live look Lord Lord Chesterfield luxury Macaulay Madame Madame de Staël man's manner melancholy mind moral morning Napoleon nature never object observed old age once pain passion person PIOZZI pleasure poet poor practise present Prince sense Shakespeare sick Sir Horace society soul suffer talk taste tell temper things thought thousand tion uncon vanity VANITY FAIR virtue walk Warren Hastings White's Club whole wine woman words writing young Young Liar youth
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135. oldal - ... his father had done before them, and nature prompting to each of them the same remedy against the face of all the facts and the clearest charge which judge had ever given, — to the surprise of the whole court, townsfolk, strangers, reporters, and all present, — without leaving the box, or any manner of consultation whatever, they brought in a simultaneous verdict of Not Guilty.
133. oldal - Much less did it resemble that of any known herb, weed, or flower. A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip. He knew not what to think. He next stooped down to feel the pig, if there were any signs of life in it. He burnt his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth.
133. oldal - Again he felt and fumbled at the pig. It did not burn him so much now ; still, he licked his fingers from a sort of habit. The truth at length broke into his slow understanding that it was the pig that smelt so, and the pig that tasted so delicious...
278. oldal - At the usual evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, " Adsum !
135. oldal - Evidence was given, the obnoxious food itself produced in court, and verdict about to be pronounced, when the foreman of the jury begged that some of the burnt pig of which the culprits stood accused might be handed into the box. He handled it, and they all handled it, and, burning their...
141. oldal - Andrewes' sermons? Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts, and purged ears.
263. oldal - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man — be virtuous — be religious — be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
25. oldal - Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of...
109. oldal - He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men ; he loves no plays As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music ; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
60. oldal - Being in conducting me prosperously through a long life, I have no doubt of its continuance in the next, though without the smallest conceit of meriting such goodness.