A Volume of VarietiesCharles Knight, 1844 - 240 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... course must necessarily be pursued with our literature ; and this proceeds from our larger opportunities of comparison . The manhood of the world can afford to supersede the clumsy experiments of its childhood , by well arranged ...
... course must necessarily be pursued with our literature ; and this proceeds from our larger opportunities of comparison . The manhood of the world can afford to supersede the clumsy experiments of its childhood , by well arranged ...
Pagina 15
... course , have done exceedingly well . This habit of talking to thinking beings , and , for the most part , to very acute thinking beings , in the language of the nursery , has been the besotting weakness of the learned and the ...
... course , have done exceedingly well . This habit of talking to thinking beings , and , for the most part , to very acute thinking beings , in the language of the nursery , has been the besotting weakness of the learned and the ...
Pagina 21
... course is safety . That public opinion may not be the rash and almost frantic impulse which pulls down the good as well as the evil , it should be built upon knowledge . We feel that knowledge is power ; but , like all real power BOOKS ...
... course is safety . That public opinion may not be the rash and almost frantic impulse which pulls down the good as well as the evil , it should be built upon knowledge . We feel that knowledge is power ; but , like all real power BOOKS ...
Pagina 27
... course of the harvest - moon , or awake our own heartfelt melodies , without being elbowed by a mob of coquettes and coxcombs . But why do I linger upon these recollections ? Is it that those days were days of happiness , and that the ...
... course of the harvest - moon , or awake our own heartfelt melodies , without being elbowed by a mob of coquettes and coxcombs . But why do I linger upon these recollections ? Is it that those days were days of happiness , and that the ...
Pagina 30
... course of duty and affection . His snatches of leisure were passed in his little garden , or with his smiling infant . His wife's whole being ap- peared wrapped up in his happiness . She loved him with a deep and confiding love ; and if ...
... course of duty and affection . His snatches of leisure were passed in his little garden , or with his smiling infant . His wife's whole being ap- peared wrapped up in his happiness . She loved him with a deep and confiding love ; and if ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 212 - Look at the generations of old, and see; did ever any trust in the Lord, and was confounded? or did any abide in his fear, and was forsaken? or whom did he ever despise, that called upon him?
Pagina 124 - ... that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom ; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Pagina 171 - Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best. Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions and a will resigned; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Pagina 124 - ALMIGHTY GOD, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the LORD, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Pagina 124 - We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world...
Pagina 94 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Pagina 178 - Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.
Pagina 40 - CHERRY-RIPE, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones; come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer : There, Where my Julia's lips do smile ; There's the land, or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.
Pagina 108 - ... their dogs ; but if men be kind unto them, and be in their habit, then are they conquered with kindness, and the sport will be plentiful.
Pagina 139 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tures in a milc-a.