About in the world, essays, by the author of 'The gentle life'. |
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... whole race is simply puerile . It would be just as true were we to assert that all Englishmen were Howards or Greenacres , or that all Scotch- men were Sawney Beans or Mrs. Chisholms . The savage 4 ABOUT IN THE WORLD .
... whole race is simply puerile . It would be just as true were we to assert that all Englishmen were Howards or Greenacres , or that all Scotch- men were Sawney Beans or Mrs. Chisholms . The savage 4 ABOUT IN THE WORLD .
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... whole of a man's life ; and indeed we often see that as one grows older , self - conceit , love , and opinion strengthen ; and an old man who , when young , was modest and retiring , becomes an opinionative , obstinate old fool , a bore ...
... whole of a man's life ; and indeed we often see that as one grows older , self - conceit , love , and opinion strengthen ; and an old man who , when young , was modest and retiring , becomes an opinionative , obstinate old fool , a bore ...
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... whole must forget self . In so doing , and in subduing narrow and egotistical prejudices , in foregoing indulgences , in looking on all men as his brothers , in sharing their pleasures , and forgetting in the common good his own sorrows ...
... whole must forget self . In so doing , and in subduing narrow and egotistical prejudices , in foregoing indulgences , in looking on all men as his brothers , in sharing their pleasures , and forgetting in the common good his own sorrows ...
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... whole one self ! self that no alien knows ! Self , far diffused as Fancy's wing can travel ! Self , spreading still ! oblivious of its own , Yet all of all possessing ! " ON BOYHOOD , AND GROWING UP . A GREAT many IO ABOUT IN THE WORLD .
... whole one self ! self that no alien knows ! Self , far diffused as Fancy's wing can travel ! Self , spreading still ! oblivious of its own , Yet all of all possessing ! " ON BOYHOOD , AND GROWING UP . A GREAT many IO ABOUT IN THE WORLD .
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... whole world dressing after us , and spend before our glasses three mortal hours , until we got our white cravat , wrapped half a dozen times round our neck , into a perfect tie . Those days are gone by . We have seen that women ...
... whole world dressing after us , and spend before our glasses three mortal hours , until we got our white cravat , wrapped half a dozen times round our neck , into a perfect tie . Those days are gone by . We have seen that women ...
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Æsop amongst aquiline Basil Montagu beauty believe Ben Jonson better brain called character Christian classes common crime criminal cruel cursed doubt dream dress eating England English evil eyes face faith feeling fellow fool gentleman GEORGE HICKS give Goodwyn Barmby Greek fire grow handsomely bound happiness HARRISON WEIR heart human hundred Ireland Irish John Bull Jonas Hanway judgment Julius Cæsar King labour ladies lawyers lips live London look Lord matter means memory mind morocco murder nation nature neckerchief never noble nose observation once pawnbroker peace perhaps philosopher Plato poet poor Pope pounds sterling priests punishment rich Samuel Romilly Shakspeare society soldiers soul sure teetotallers tell temperance things thought tion told true truth Utopian whilst wife wise wishes woman women wonderful words writes young youth
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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.