Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon, 2. kötetParker son and Bourn, 1861 |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 39 találatból.
4. oldal
... talk to us for hours about . I have often thought that , taken altogether , such a hedge as this is a picture of human life - beautiful and complete in its bold variety , whereas men would have one sturdy quickset of the same height and ...
... talk to us for hours about . I have often thought that , taken altogether , such a hedge as this is a picture of human life - beautiful and complete in its bold variety , whereas men would have one sturdy quickset of the same height and ...
5. oldal
... talk about the crops and the weather . Ah me ! he was not a very wise man ; yet , now , perhaps , he knows much more than the wisest of us who are left . I have often thought , Dunsford , when any of those whom we consider common ...
... talk about the crops and the weather . Ah me ! he was not a very wise man ; yet , now , perhaps , he knows much more than the wisest of us who are left . I have often thought , Dunsford , when any of those whom we consider common ...
9. oldal
... talk together far more openly than most people ; but there is skilful fencing even in our talk . We are not inclined to say the whole of what we think . MILVERTON . What I should need in a friend would be a certain breadth of nature ; I ...
... talk together far more openly than most people ; but there is skilful fencing even in our talk . We are not inclined to say the whole of what we think . MILVERTON . What I should need in a friend would be a certain breadth of nature ; I ...
10. oldal
... talk or devoted to self - advancement , who seem to have grown up entirely from the earth , whereas even the plants draw most of their sus- tenance from the air of heaven . ELLESMERE . That is a high flight : I am not prepared to say ...
... talk or devoted to self - advancement , who seem to have grown up entirely from the earth , whereas even the plants draw most of their sus- tenance from the air of heaven . ELLESMERE . That is a high flight : I am not prepared to say ...
12. oldal
... on friendship , without the fuss of writing one . I always told you our talk was better than your writing , Milverton . Now we only want a beginning and ending to this peripatetic essay . What would you say to this 12 IMPROVEMENT OF THE.
... on friendship , without the fuss of writing one . I always told you our talk was better than your writing , Milverton . Now we only want a beginning and ending to this peripatetic essay . What would you say to this 12 IMPROVEMENT OF THE.
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9. oldal - And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand. And Saul said to him : " Whose son art thou, thou young man?" And David answered: "I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite.
189. oldal - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
191. oldal - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me: What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
206. oldal - It deserves to be remarked, perhaps, that it is in the progressive state, while the society is advancing to the further acquisition, rather than when it has acquired its full complement of riches, that the condition of the labouring poor, of the great body of the people, seems to be the happiest and the most comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of the society....
275. oldal - Quodcunque retro est efficiet, neque Diffinget infectumque reddet Quod fugiens semel hora vexit.
177. oldal - If we then cease taking and plundering the infidel ships, and making slaves of the seamen and passengers, our lands will become of no value for want of cultivation; the rents of houses in the city will sink one half; and the revenues of government arising from its share of prizes be totally destroyed!
40. oldal - ... and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.