About in the world, essays, by the author of 'The gentle life'. |
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... follow , " as the night the day , we cannot then be false to any man . " But just because self is our closest companion , our best friend , and our deadliest enemy , we should be careful that he takes into his house none but the best ...
... follow , " as the night the day , we cannot then be false to any man . " But just because self is our closest companion , our best friend , and our deadliest enemy , we should be careful that he takes into his house none but the best ...
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... follow the children : but at present we write for men . With them the age of Brummel is gone . Gone , too , the age of Scott and resuscitated chivalry ; of James , his imitator , who told very pretty stories about knights and nobles ...
... follow the children : but at present we write for men . With them the age of Brummel is gone . Gone , too , the age of Scott and resuscitated chivalry ; of James , his imitator , who told very pretty stories about knights and nobles ...
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... follow . There is a perfect keeping between them and the wearers . What we may well term the fooleries of fashion have always been and ever will be abundant , and are continually the food for the preachers and satirists of the day . But ...
... follow . There is a perfect keeping between them and the wearers . What we may well term the fooleries of fashion have always been and ever will be abundant , and are continually the food for the preachers and satirists of the day . But ...
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... follow M. Soyer in his description : he gives his gourmand 5475 lb. weight of all kinds of vegetables , not including fruit , and 21,000 eggs , and 4 tons of bread , with 49 hogsheads of wine ; 2736 gallons of water , with enor- mous ...
... follow M. Soyer in his description : he gives his gourmand 5475 lb. weight of all kinds of vegetables , not including fruit , and 21,000 eggs , and 4 tons of bread , with 49 hogsheads of wine ; 2736 gallons of water , with enor- mous ...
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... follows . If we wish to see how odious gluttony and excess are to a highly intellectual mind , we have only to read that passage in Dante's great work wherein gluttons are punished , and , moreover , to remember the feast of Dives and ...
... follows . If we wish to see how odious gluttony and excess are to a highly intellectual mind , we have only to read that passage in Dante's great work wherein gluttons are punished , and , moreover , to remember the feast of Dives and ...
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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.