Biographic portraitures: or, Sketches of the lives and characters of a few illustrious persons1861 |
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... able persons are , accordingly , among the most attractive and encouraging studies which can engage the attention of hopeful and aspiring natures ; being at once mementoes of triumphant energy , and pledges of the possibilities which ...
... able persons are , accordingly , among the most attractive and encouraging studies which can engage the attention of hopeful and aspiring natures ; being at once mementoes of triumphant energy , and pledges of the possibilities which ...
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... able to get to the university at Leipzig . Old Sebastian , with his munificent " liberality of intention , ' had promised to stand good on this occasion ; and it is thought he would have done so with the greatest pleasure , had it cost ...
... able to get to the university at Leipzig . Old Sebastian , with his munificent " liberality of intention , ' had promised to stand good on this occasion ; and it is thought he would have done so with the greatest pleasure , had it cost ...
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... able and gentle wife to him . Patient and enduring in adversity , she had also the qualities which failed not to grace and beautify the home of his prosperity . Children , too , spring up about their knees to share their love , and to ...
... able and gentle wife to him . Patient and enduring in adversity , she had also the qualities which failed not to grace and beautify the home of his prosperity . Children , too , spring up about their knees to share their love , and to ...
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... able multitude had penetration enough to have discerned any merit in such a man as Heyne while he slept bedless in Sonntag's garret with folios for his pillow , and dined grimly in the twilight on a dish of peascods without sauce ...
... able multitude had penetration enough to have discerned any merit in such a man as Heyne while he slept bedless in Sonntag's garret with folios for his pillow , and dined grimly in the twilight on a dish of peascods without sauce ...
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... able results , are perhaps to be reckoned as his principal characteristics ; to any important clearness or superior polish of thought or of expression , to any philosophical order , or artistic classical adjustment , it is not commonly ...
... able results , are perhaps to be reckoned as his principal characteristics ; to any important clearness or superior polish of thought or of expression , to any philosophical order , or artistic classical adjustment , it is not commonly ...
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Biographic Portraitures: Or, Sketches of the Lives Ahd Characters of a Few ... John Leaf Повний перегляд - 1861 |
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Сторінка 94 - Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals to the times — Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes.
Сторінка 99 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Сторінка 89 - I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and impertinence, while I am confident, had they the advantages of education equal to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves.
Сторінка 99 - Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself...
Сторінка 94 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Сторінка 77 - We state Fichte's character, as it is known and admitted by men of all parties among the Germans, when we say that so robust an intellect, a soul so calm, so lofty, massive, and immovable, has not mingled in philosophical discussion since the time of Luther.
Сторінка 94 - COULD but our ancestors retrieve their fate, And see their offspring thus degenerate ; How we contend for birth and names unknown, And build on their past actions, not our own ; They'd cancel records, and their tombs deface, And openly disown the vile degenerate race : For fame of families is all a cheat, It's personal virtue only makes us great.
Сторінка 94 - We can never enjoy a settled, uninterrupted union and tranquillity in this nation till the spirit of Whiggism, faction, and schism is melted down like the old money.
Сторінка 84 - famous on various accounts, and every one of them dear to Britons who love their country, value the Protestant interest, or have an aversion to tyranny and oppression.
Сторінка 99 - And what if the Pretender should Come ? or, some Considerations of the Advantages and real Consequences of the Pretender's possessing the Crown of Great Britain.