Choice Literature, Volume 2J. B. Alden, 1880 |
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Pagina 1
... land and New York families - and all of them brought the highest cul- ture the colonies could give to their great work . But Franklin's father ( though of good yeoman stock in the old country , which he had left when quite young ) ...
... land and New York families - and all of them brought the highest cul- ture the colonies could give to their great work . But Franklin's father ( though of good yeoman stock in the old country , which he had left when quite young ) ...
Pagina 16
... land . There a number of large villages had grown up , all capable of defending themselves , thanks to the arrange- ment of the houses , which were crowded in a compact mass on the sum- mit of the hills . Bether had become for the ...
... land . There a number of large villages had grown up , all capable of defending themselves , thanks to the arrange- ment of the houses , which were crowded in a compact mass on the sum- mit of the hills . Bether had become for the ...
Pagina 30
... land which will make drink - quelling laws effective until moderate drinking itself comes to be looked upon in its true light . It is a ques- tion of influence . The moderate drinkers are , it may safely be as- sumed , the only men in ...
... land which will make drink - quelling laws effective until moderate drinking itself comes to be looked upon in its true light . It is a ques- tion of influence . The moderate drinkers are , it may safely be as- sumed , the only men in ...
Pagina 32
... land . Times are hard in England , are they ? Bass uses up every year , besides , the hops grown on some two thousand acres of land ; and he yearly rolls into the groggeries of London and the other great English towns something like a ...
... land . Times are hard in England , are they ? Bass uses up every year , besides , the hops grown on some two thousand acres of land ; and he yearly rolls into the groggeries of London and the other great English towns something like a ...
Pagina 33
... land would be such as would fill every honest man's heart with thanksgiving . The poor man's sins of commission are awful , no doubt ; but what of our sins of omission ? It will be hard work to overcome the drink evil in Great Britain ...
... land would be such as would fill every honest man's heart with thanksgiving . The poor man's sins of commission are awful , no doubt ; but what of our sins of omission ? It will be hard work to overcome the drink evil in Great Britain ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 790 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Pagina 600 - Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Pagina 794 - I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill -sounding throat Awake the god of day...
Pagina 514 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Pagina 3 - I have long been of opinion, that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British empire lie in America; and though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that human wisdom ever yet erected.
Pagina 32 - The new Beer Bill has begun its operations. Everybody is drunk. Those who are not singing are sprawling. The sovereign people are in a beastly state.
Pagina 600 - There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute. Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
Pagina 244 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Pagina 651 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Pagina 600 - After the death of King Wan, was not the cause of truth lodged here in me? "If Heaven had wished to let this cause of truth perish, then I, a future mortal! should not have got such a relation to that cause. While Heaven does not let the cause of truth perish, what can the people of K'wang do to me?