The Living Age, 263. kötetE. Littell & Company, 1909 |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 100 találatból.
4. oldal
... become " The guess of a worm in the dust and the shadow of its desire , Of a worm as it writhes in the world of the weak trodden down by the strong , Of a dying worm in a world , all mas- sacre , murder and wrong . " Others , like ...
... become " The guess of a worm in the dust and the shadow of its desire , Of a worm as it writhes in the world of the weak trodden down by the strong , Of a dying worm in a world , all mas- sacre , murder and wrong . " Others , like ...
7. oldal
... become a positive advan- tage in the struggle . Biological history is full of cases in which the superior competitor has been driven out of ex- istence by one inferior in every respect but that of accidental adaptability to unfavorable ...
... become a positive advan- tage in the struggle . Biological history is full of cases in which the superior competitor has been driven out of ex- istence by one inferior in every respect but that of accidental adaptability to unfavorable ...
10. oldal
... become too soft to hold their own in war ; and he adduces historic examples - the Visi- goths in Spain , the Roman panem et circenses . But history does not prove , nor does experience , that a reasonable standard of comfort for all ...
... become too soft to hold their own in war ; and he adduces historic examples - the Visi- goths in Spain , the Roman panem et circenses . But history does not prove , nor does experience , that a reasonable standard of comfort for all ...
18. oldal
... become more stable since the war . There is no reason why , in fifty years , she shall not once again be a Great Power , if she will comprehend the full significance of the cry which has lately rung in every street of every Spanish town ...
... become more stable since the war . There is no reason why , in fifty years , she shall not once again be a Great Power , if she will comprehend the full significance of the cry which has lately rung in every street of every Spanish town ...
31. oldal
... become dear for many a good reason besides that of euphony . And here I feel I owe some apology to those the names of whose native places I have touched upon with the uncom- prehending levity of the outsider . It was but for a moment's ...
... become dear for many a good reason besides that of euphony . And here I feel I owe some apology to those the names of whose native places I have touched upon with the uncom- prehending levity of the outsider . It was but for a moment's ...
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481. oldal - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
614. oldal - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
163. oldal - How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and Fox alone.
229. oldal - The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows!
550. oldal - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
229. oldal - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter— the wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his sleep.
162. oldal - King James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear or see their foes Until at weapon-point they close. — They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air: Oh!
528. oldal - Thou canst not prove thou art immortal, no Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with thyself, For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven...
71. oldal - Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.
248. oldal - I dare say he thinks he has done a mighty thing. He won't stay till he gets home to his seat in the country, to produce this wonderful deed: hell call up the landlord of the first inn on the road; and, after a suitable preface upon mortality and the uncertainty of life, will tell him that he should not delay making his will; and here, Sir...