Some Threepenny Bits

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G. Richards, 1908 - 322 стор.
 

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Сторінка 233 - ... gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland...
Сторінка 184 - But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
Сторінка 42 - KINDLE the Christmas brand, and then Till sunne-set let it burne ; Which quencht, then lay it up agen, Till Christmas next returne. Part must be kept wherewith to teend * The Christmas log next yeare ; And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend Can do no mischiefe there.
Сторінка 193 - A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body, which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies —one may say, simply,
Сторінка 41 - Box which now hath grace, Your houses to renew ; Grown old, surrender must his place, Unto the crisped Yew. When Yew is out, then Birch comes in, And many Flowers beside ; Both of a fresh, and fragrant kinne To honour Whitsontide.
Сторінка 114 - Statutes at Large; the works of Hume, Gibbon, Robertson, Beattie, Soame Jenyns, and, generally, all those volumes which "no gentleman's library should be without " : the Histories of Flavius Josephus (that learned Jew), and Paley's Moral Philosophy.
Сторінка 41 - Then youthful box which now hath grace Your houses to renew ; Grown old, surrender must his place Unto the crisped yew. When yew is out, then birch comes in, And many flowers beside ; Both of a fresh and fragrant kin To honour Whitsuntide. Green rushes, then, and sweetest bents, With cooler oaken boughs, Come in for comely ornaments To re-adorn the house. Thus times do shift ; each thing his turn does hold ; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Сторінка 186 - Seeking for some great thing to do, Or secret thing to know ; I would be treated as a child, And guided where I go.
Сторінка 133 - ... [Here Mr. Burke drew out a dagger, which he had kept concealed, and with much vehemence of action threw it on the floor.] " This," said he, pointing to the dagger, " is what you are to gain by an alliance with France : wherever their principles are introduced, their practices must follow.
Сторінка 79 - Here was an orator who could apply all the resources of a burnished rhetoric to the elucidation of figures; who could make pippins and cheese interesting, and tea serious; who could sweep the widest horizon of the financial future, and yet stoop to bestow the minutest attention on the microcosm of penny stamps and post-horses.

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