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Pagina 14
... known to be a quarter of an hour dogging him round a field before it caught him . PRUDENCE . PRUDENCE and love are inconsistent ; in propor- tion as the last increases , the other decreases . 66 A N'APT REPARTEE . 66 " ISN'T your hat ...
... known to be a quarter of an hour dogging him round a field before it caught him . PRUDENCE . PRUDENCE and love are inconsistent ; in propor- tion as the last increases , the other decreases . 66 A N'APT REPARTEE . 66 " ISN'T your hat ...
Pagina 20
... known , and he must be obeyed . " Monsieur le Comte , " said his secretary to him one day , " the thing you require is impossible . " " Impossible ! " exclaimed Mira- beau , starting from his chair , " never again use that foolish word ...
... known , and he must be obeyed . " Monsieur le Comte , " said his secretary to him one day , " the thing you require is impossible . " " Impossible ! " exclaimed Mira- beau , starting from his chair , " never again use that foolish word ...
Pagina 23
... known some readers who , on this principle , must have had excellent constitutions , for they displayed considerable additional weight just after reading a good book ; but if I called to see them a month afterward , were as light as ...
... known some readers who , on this principle , must have had excellent constitutions , for they displayed considerable additional weight just after reading a good book ; but if I called to see them a month afterward , were as light as ...
Pagina 26
... A GOOD SHOT AND GOOD GUN . A WELL - KNOWN sporting baronet of the upper ward , who is an excellent shot , last autumn , with a single charge of his matchless gun , brought down three brace of game , but what is still more 26 THE TREASURY ...
... A GOOD SHOT AND GOOD GUN . A WELL - KNOWN sporting baronet of the upper ward , who is an excellent shot , last autumn , with a single charge of his matchless gun , brought down three brace of game , but what is still more 26 THE TREASURY ...
Pagina 34
... known to cause them to turn heels over head a considerable distance . CONUNDRUMS . WHEN is a fish not a fish ? When it's a float . When is a soldier in a mess ? When he's re- treating from the field of battle with his right leg left ...
... known to cause them to turn heels over head a considerable distance . CONUNDRUMS . WHEN is a fish not a fish ? When it's a float . When is a soldier in a mess ? When he's re- treating from the field of battle with his right leg left ...
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Pagina 17 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who...
Pagina 202 - And let us linger in this place, for an instant, to remark, that if ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the. wealthy and the proud to home, may be forged on earth ; but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth, are of the true metal, and bear the stamp of heaven.
Pagina 243 - Royal brother,' returned Richard, 'recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. He forgets neither friend nor foe, remembers, and with accuracy, both benefit and injury. He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood. You may bribe a soldier to slay a man with his sword, or a witness to take life by false accusation ; but you cannot make a hound tear his benefactor...
Pagina 104 - has your father a grindstone?" "Yes, sir," said I. "You are a fine little fellow," said he; "will you let me grind my axe on it?
Pagina 105 - When I see a merchant over polite to his customers, — begging them to take a little brandy, and throwing his goods on the counter, — thinks I, That man has an axe to grind. When I see a man flattering the people, making great professions of attachment to liberty, who is in private life a tyrant, methinks, Look out, good people ! that fellow would set you turning grindstones.
Pagina 105 - You are a fine little fellow," said he; "will you let me grind my axe on it?" Pleased with the compliment of "fine little fellow," "Oh yes, sir," I answered : "it is down in the shop." "And will you, my man," said he, patting me on the head, "get me a little hot water?
Pagina 262 - ... a fair face and a full light, and then he shines one whole day, under a cloud often, and sometimes weeping great and little showers, and sets quickly: so is a man's reason and his life. He first begins to perceive himself to see or taste, making little reflections upon his actions of sense, and can discourse of flies and dogs, shells and play, horses and liberty: but when he is strong enough to enter into arts and little institutions, he is at first entertained with trifles and impertinent things,...
Pagina 263 - ... of flies and dogs, shells and play, horses and liberty : but when he is strong enough to enter into arts and little institutions, he is at first entertained with trifles and impertinent things, not because he needs them, but because his understanding is no bigger, and little images of things are laid before him, like a cock-boat to a whale, only to play withal : but before a man comes to be wise, he is half dead with gouts and consumptions, with catarrhs and aches, with sore eyes and a worn-out...
Pagina 246 - The Cardinal rose with a dignified look, He call'd for his candle, his bell, and his book! In holy anger, and pious grief, He solemnly cursed that rascally thief! He cursed him at board, he cursed him in bed; From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head; He cursed him in sleeping, that every night He should dream of the devil, and wake in a fright; He cursed him in eating, he cursed him in drinking, He cursed him in coughing, in sneezing...
Pagina 110 - ... the third ; and on the fourth, if he never intends to be married. — When a lady is not engaged, she wears a hoop or diamond on her first finger ; if engaged, on the second ; if married, on the third ; and on the fourth if she intends to die a maid.