About in the world, essays, by the author of 'The gentle life'. |
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... , they have worked day by day , and hour by hour , at the fabric , let his sons remember that it is theirs to improve it , to establish it , and to keep it intact . OUR NEIGHBOURS IN IRELAND ; OR , " POOR PADDY 32 ABOUT IN THE WORLD .
... , they have worked day by day , and hour by hour , at the fabric , let his sons remember that it is theirs to improve it , to establish it , and to keep it intact . OUR NEIGHBOURS IN IRELAND ; OR , " POOR PADDY 32 ABOUT IN THE WORLD .
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... remember that since Sir Walter Raleigh intro- duced the potato , that " accursed fruit , " as it has been called , has formed the staple food of Irish men and women . It is prolific , and needs little cultivation . Nay , the very ...
... remember that since Sir Walter Raleigh intro- duced the potato , that " accursed fruit , " as it has been called , has formed the staple food of Irish men and women . It is prolific , and needs little cultivation . Nay , the very ...
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... remember these last being Our barristers and judges still continue the custom , the honour being shared with them by state coachmen on drawing - room days and other great occasions . Fancy also the barbers petitioning Parliament to pass ...
... remember these last being Our barristers and judges still continue the custom , the honour being shared with them by state coachmen on drawing - room days and other great occasions . Fancy also the barbers petitioning Parliament to pass ...
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... and , moreover , to remember the feast of Dives and the starvation of Lazarus ; and then we shall , like Socrates , EAT TO LIVE , and not LIVE TO EAT . ON PUMP - HANDLES ; OR , THE GREAT TEMPERANCE EATING AND DRINKING . 63.
... and , moreover , to remember the feast of Dives and the starvation of Lazarus ; and then we shall , like Socrates , EAT TO LIVE , and not LIVE TO EAT . ON PUMP - HANDLES ; OR , THE GREAT TEMPERANCE EATING AND DRINKING . 63.
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... remember , ” he said , “ that when I had been pleading in the cause of the unfortunate , one of our hereditary legislators staggered up to me , his breath tainted with his after - dinner wine , and said with an oath , ' By , Romilly ...
... remember , ” he said , “ that when I had been pleading in the cause of the unfortunate , one of our hereditary legislators staggered up to me , his breath tainted with his after - dinner wine , and said with an oath , ' By , Romilly ...
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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.