About in the world, essays, by the author of 'The gentle life'. |
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... Wishes and Curses On One of our Last Acts Good Wishes at Christmas 199 210 219 229 · 240 · 249 259 267 276 285 • 295 304 PREFACE . ERHAPS an author's pen , however facile , iv CONTENTS .
... Wishes and Curses On One of our Last Acts Good Wishes at Christmas 199 210 219 229 · 240 · 249 259 267 276 285 • 295 304 PREFACE . ERHAPS an author's pen , however facile , iv CONTENTS .
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... wishes Orlando to rail against the world , he says , " No ; I will rail only against myself , against whom I know most ill . " A noble sentiment ; a witness to the truth of which is borne by a story told of the celebrated Catherine de ...
... wishes Orlando to rail against the world , he says , " No ; I will rail only against myself , against whom I know most ill . " A noble sentiment ; a witness to the truth of which is borne by a story told of the celebrated Catherine de ...
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... wish to be painted as was his Oliver . Draw him with his warts , and he sees you are not overpraising him ; for he is , like all well - bred ani- mals , thin - skinned , and knows where his weak points lie . It was a happy thought of Dr ...
... wish to be painted as was his Oliver . Draw him with his warts , and he sees you are not overpraising him ; for he is , like all well - bred ani- mals , thin - skinned , and knows where his weak points lie . It was a happy thought of Dr ...
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... wishes to live in health , " wrote Sir William Temple , " he must live like a poor man . " The authors who have written on cookery are very nume- rous . A cook's library would be a curious , and by no means an uninteresting collection ...
... wishes to live in health , " wrote Sir William Temple , " he must live like a poor man . " The authors who have written on cookery are very nume- rous . A cook's library would be a curious , and by no means an uninteresting collection ...
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... 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 the starvation of ...
... 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 the starvation of ...
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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.