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Pagina 3
... interrogates itself , listens to the echo of its own voice , and is obliged , after all , to lay itself down again with a very puzzled expression - and acknowledge that of its very self , itself knows little or nothing !
... interrogates itself , listens to the echo of its own voice , and is obliged , after all , to lay itself down again with a very puzzled expression - and acknowledge that of its very self , itself knows little or nothing !
Pagina 17
... in the expression of ethical proof , so near to the maxims , and sometimes the very expressions , of the Goswhich he ... he should have thought it contrasts ( whatever the occasional sublimity of expression ) the faltering and often ...
... in the expression of ethical proof , so near to the maxims , and sometimes the very expressions , of the Goswhich he ... he should have thought it contrasts ( whatever the occasional sublimity of expression ) the faltering and often ...
Pagina 20
... at least till he has matured We earnestly counsel the youthful reader to defer the and disciplined his mind , and familiarized himself with the best models of what used to be our boast - English clearness of thought and expression .
... at least till he has matured We earnestly counsel the youthful reader to defer the and disciplined his mind , and familiarized himself with the best models of what used to be our boast - English clearness of thought and expression .
Pagina 23
And this is proved by the infi- or can be , even in the plainest narrative of the simplest nitely various and Protean character of Rational events -- a perfectly accurate expression of truth . " We enter not here , however , into the ...
And this is proved by the infi- or can be , even in the plainest narrative of the simplest nitely various and Protean character of Rational events -- a perfectly accurate expression of truth . " We enter not here , however , into the ...
Pagina 39
without the usual credential and expression of the The girl's eye flashed up instantly with anger , national wish , the purposes of which the council- and her lip curled scornfully , but this she took wampum was well known to serve ...
without the usual credential and expression of the The girl's eye flashed up instantly with anger , national wish , the purposes of which the council- and her lip curled scornfully , but this she took wampum was well known to serve ...
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Pagina 254 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Pagina 14 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.
Pagina 89 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Pagina 305 - Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means— to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself — is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties...
Pagina 141 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Pagina 258 - THE snow had begun in the gloaming, And busily all the night Had been heaping field and highway With a silence deep and white. Every pine and fir and hemlock Wore ermine too dear for an earl, And the poorest twig on the elm-tree Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
Pagina 146 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her, 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Pagina 27 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Pagina 339 - I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him.
Pagina 138 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.