About in the world, essays, by the author of 'The gentle life'. |
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... question to all readers who are not alone captivated by the bare narration of extraordinary incidents and exciting conflicts , either bodily or mental ; most important in a book of Essays where none of these are to be found . Of the ...
... question to all readers who are not alone captivated by the bare narration of extraordinary incidents and exciting conflicts , either bodily or mental ; most important in a book of Essays where none of these are to be found . Of the ...
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... he does not marry till he gets them . ” 66 It will be impossible here to enter into a question of reli- gion , but that has had an immense influence over poor Paddy . Those who hold with him will say it is for OUR NEIGHBOURS IN IRELAND .
... he does not marry till he gets them . ” 66 It will be impossible here to enter into a question of reli- gion , but that has had an immense influence over poor Paddy . Those who hold with him will say it is for OUR NEIGHBOURS IN IRELAND .
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... question , then , of indulgence . in drink , became a home question . It was not only in public- houses and debating - societies , but in society and in the quietude of home , that the consideration was brought to you . In its day , as ...
... question , then , of indulgence . in drink , became a home question . It was not only in public- houses and debating - societies , but in society and in the quietude of home , that the consideration was brought to you . In its day , as ...
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... question , the mass of mankind are better and happier now than they were then . We have all along tended to that wise and wide doctrine , upheld by Plato , Sir Thomas More , and Jeremy Bentham , that in a country the greatest happiness ...
... question , the mass of mankind are better and happier now than they were then . We have all along tended to that wise and wide doctrine , upheld by Plato , Sir Thomas More , and Jeremy Bentham , that in a country the greatest happiness ...
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... question , that there is only one adequate support for all the calamities of mortal life - one only- " an assured belief That the procession of our fate , howe'er Sad or disturbed , is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and ...
... question , that there is only one adequate support for all the calamities of mortal life - one only- " an assured belief That the procession of our fate , howe'er Sad or disturbed , is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence 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.