Choice Literature, Volume 2J. B. Alden, 1880 |
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Pagina 5
... true . He was not the man to overlook personal slights , and no one could bide his time more patiently , or hit back harder when that time came . But , greatly to his credit , he did not even then allow his personal feelings to inter ...
... true . He was not the man to overlook personal slights , and no one could bide his time more patiently , or hit back harder when that time came . But , greatly to his credit , he did not even then allow his personal feelings to inter ...
Pagina 10
... true that the other commissioners had little or no communication with Ver- sailles , and ( as Mr. Fitzherbert informed Lord Shelburne ) " not only distrust but are strongly distrusted by the court , while Dr. Franklin keeps up ( though ...
... true that the other commissioners had little or no communication with Ver- sailles , and ( as Mr. Fitzherbert informed Lord Shelburne ) " not only distrust but are strongly distrusted by the court , while Dr. Franklin keeps up ( though ...
Pagina 14
... true , and that if he never lifts us above the earth or beyond the domain of experience and common- sense , he retained himself a strong hold on the invisible which under- lies it , and would have been the first to acknowledge that it ...
... true , and that if he never lifts us above the earth or beyond the domain of experience and common- sense , he retained himself a strong hold on the invisible which under- lies it , and would have been the first to acknowledge that it ...
Pagina 25
... true Jews . " After all , the works of this nation are admirable , " said Rabbi Judah - bar - Ilai one day to two of his friends who were sitting with him . They establish forums , con- struct bridges , build therma . " A great merit ...
... true Jews . " After all , the works of this nation are admirable , " said Rabbi Judah - bar - Ilai one day to two of his friends who were sitting with him . They establish forums , con- struct bridges , build therma . " A great merit ...
Pagina 26
... true , I suppose , that men of birth and position are no longer in the habit of drinking their six bottles at dinner and sprawling under the table helpless . A man who would drink like this , at his own or a friend's table , nowadays ...
... true , I suppose , that men of birth and position are no longer in the habit of drinking their six bottles at dinner and sprawling under the table helpless . A man who would drink like this , at his own or a friend's table , nowadays ...
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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?