About in the World: Essays by the Author of "The Gentle Life".Sampson Low, son, & Marston, 1864 - 312 стор. |
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... feels convinced that he may apply to his book the first sentence of Montaigne , " C'est icy un livre de bonne foy , lecteur ; " and to the charge of preaching a too cheerful philosophy he would answer , in the words of Washington Irving ...
... feels convinced that he may apply to his book the first sentence of Montaigne , " C'est icy un livre de bonne foy , lecteur ; " and to the charge of preaching a too cheerful philosophy he would answer , in the words of Washington Irving ...
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... feeling uncomfortable , and wanting to be with boys , when he is with men . He has only one ardent desire , and that ... feelings which we all regret , boy- hood is , to most of us , an unhappy time . That is , it used to be so eighteen ...
... feeling uncomfortable , and wanting to be with boys , when he is with men . He has only one ardent desire , and that ... feelings which we all regret , boy- hood is , to most of us , an unhappy time . That is , it used to be so eighteen ...
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... feeling ; for we hold it that , unless a man has much of the mother in him , he is but imperfect . The grand , generous , and charitable may be sustained by the man's , but they have their birth in the woman's portion of us . As ...
... feeling ; for we hold it that , unless a man has much of the mother in him , he is but imperfect . The grand , generous , and charitable may be sustained by the man's , but they have their birth in the woman's portion of us . As ...
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... feeling of poetry , more melancholy , more rhetoric , greater eloquence , and much greater tenderness of heart . An Irishman is more loyal and more patient of suffer- ing than a Frenchman . He has had not only to submit to a stronger ...
... feeling of poetry , more melancholy , more rhetoric , greater eloquence , and much greater tenderness of heart . An Irishman is more loyal and more patient of suffer- ing than a Frenchman . He has had not only to submit to a stronger ...
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... feeling and poetry in it than any other wit in the world . But witty persons are not always successful . The dull man knows that he is laughed at , and yet carries the day . A tyrant is never slain by epigrams , nor put to death by puns ...
... feeling and poetry in it than any other wit in the world . But witty persons are not always successful . The dull man knows that he is laughed at , and yet carries the day . A tyrant is never slain by epigrams , nor put to death by puns ...
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About in the World: Essays by the Author of "The Gentle Life". James Hain Friswell Повний перегляд - 1864 |
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