About in the world, essays, by the author of 'The gentle life'. |
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... bodies of the slain after the defeat of Mortimer's army ; as Frenchwomen , and even ladies , have taken a horrible pleasure in witnessing bloody executions ; so in the massacres by O'Neil , in those at Wexford in '98 , and in many ...
... bodies of the slain after the defeat of Mortimer's army ; as Frenchwomen , and even ladies , have taken a horrible pleasure in witnessing bloody executions ; so in the massacres by O'Neil , in those at Wexford in '98 , and in many ...
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... bodies , of whatever country or age , have felt the great distinction of dress . The priests of Jupiter , the Augurs and Aruspices , the Flamen and the Pon- tifex Maximus , were dressed very differently from the common every - day Roman ...
... bodies , of whatever country or age , have felt the great distinction of dress . The priests of Jupiter , the Augurs and Aruspices , the Flamen and the Pon- tifex Maximus , were dressed very differently from the common every - day Roman ...
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... bodies , did not remove nor even abate it . worn . The hoop , which is now so prevalent , is another instance of the folly of Fashion . It arose in the time of Elizabeth , and its purpose always was and is to extend the gown so as to ...
... bodies , did not remove nor even abate it . worn . The hoop , which is now so prevalent , is another instance of the folly of Fashion . It arose in the time of Elizabeth , and its purpose always was and is to extend the gown so as to ...
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... body , as it does from a diseased mind ; in fact , you are not able to have one healthy unless the other is . The mind must regulate what the body demands . Livy says somewhere , " Mens peccat , non corpus , et unde consi- lium abfuit ...
... body , as it does from a diseased mind ; in fact , you are not able to have one healthy unless the other is . The mind must regulate what the body demands . Livy says somewhere , " Mens peccat , non corpus , et unde consi- lium abfuit ...
Сторінка 60
... body felt at being relieved from the incumbrance of too much flesh . It may be said ( for instances of exception would only prove the rule ) that all long livers have been very abstemious . Whatever we eat or drink , little or much , 60 ...
... body felt at being relieved from the incumbrance of too much flesh . It may be said ( for instances of exception would only prove the rule ) that all long livers have been very abstemious . Whatever we eat or drink , little or much , 60 ...
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Сторінка 299 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Сторінка 240 - Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Сторінка 5 - Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze like Joshua's moon in Ajalon!
Сторінка 95 - Happy the man, who sees a God employed In all the good and ill, that chequer life! Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme.
Сторінка 208 - Peace sitting under her olive, and slurring the days gone by, When the poor are hovell'd and hustled together, each sex, like swine, When only the ledger lives, and when only not all men lie; Peace in her vineyard - yes!
Сторінка 227 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Сторінка 252 - The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Сторінка 2 - Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, The soul that rises with us our life's star has had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar...
Сторінка 309 - Choice Editions of Choice Books. New Editions. Illustrated by CW Cope, RA, T. Creswick, RA. Edward Duncan, Birket Foster, JC Horsley, ARA. George Hicks. R. Redgrave, RA, C.
Сторінка 268 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.