The new cyclopædia of illustrative anecdote [by E.S.P.].1872 |
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Pagina vii
... length of time , the listener grows wearied , uninterested , listless . Let the discourse , however , be broken by never so slight an illustration , apologue , or incident , and a directly contrary effect is at once observed . In all ...
... length of time , the listener grows wearied , uninterested , listless . Let the discourse , however , be broken by never so slight an illustration , apologue , or incident , and a directly contrary effect is at once observed . In all ...
Pagina 9
... length took the much . " purse in his hand , and said , " Well , do you really force it upon me ? Must I accept of it ? entirely mine ? And may I do with it as I please ? " " Yes , yes , " was the reply . " God be praised , then ; God ...
... length took the much . " purse in his hand , and said , " Well , do you really force it upon me ? Must I accept of it ? entirely mine ? And may I do with it as I please ? " " Yes , yes , " was the reply . " God be praised , then ; God ...
Pagina 22
... length , when 76. Failings of Others . - The her stock of food was utterly great Duke of Marlborough and exhausted , and she was spurned the first Lord Bolingbroke were with taunts from the door of a in opposite political interests ...
... length , when 76. Failings of Others . - The her stock of food was utterly great Duke of Marlborough and exhausted , and she was spurned the first Lord Bolingbroke were with taunts from the door of a in opposite political interests ...
Pagina 31
... length finished the work , he went out to enjoy a little rest with a friend , when his wife , in a fit of bad temper , de- stroyed the MS . On his return , grieved as he was , he simply said , " My dear , thou hast done very wrong ...
... length finished the work , he went out to enjoy a little rest with a friend , when his wife , in a fit of bad temper , de- stroyed the MS . On his return , grieved as he was , he simply said , " My dear , thou hast done very wrong ...
Pagina 38
... length took a pistol from his master's he arose from his seat , and , coming saddle , and shot him dead on the down from the bench , placed him- spot ; then , rifling him of his jewels self just by the unfortunate man at and money , and ...
... length took a pistol from his master's he arose from his seat , and , coming saddle , and shot him dead on the down from the bench , placed him- spot ; then , rifling him of his jewels self just by the unfortunate man at and money , and ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 543 - BLESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Pagina 229 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Pagina 363 - I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there ye may be also.
Pagina 18 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Pagina 329 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Pagina 19 - But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Pagina 196 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the said farm.
Pagina 477 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Pagina 479 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Pagina 488 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee...