About in the world, essays, by the author of 'The gentle life'. |
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... young imagination of the child , strange and glorious fancies lie ; that dim recollections of a prior existence and a grander home occupy the cranium of a child . " Heaven lies about us in our infancy : Our birth is but a sleep and a ...
... young imagination of the child , strange and glorious fancies lie ; that dim recollections of a prior existence and a grander home occupy the cranium of a child . " Heaven lies about us in our infancy : Our birth is but a sleep and a ...
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... young mother as she is suckling a very young baby , he will there see , perhaps , the most interesting sight in the world . Lord Byron , in some noble lines , gives us a clue to what is the next most absorbing : - " He who hath bent him ...
... young mother as she is suckling a very young baby , he will there see , perhaps , the most interesting sight in the world . Lord Byron , in some noble lines , gives us a clue to what is the next most absorbing : - " He who hath bent him ...
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... young imagination of the child , strange and glorious fancies lie ; that dim recollections of a prior existence and a grander home occupy the cranium of a child . " Heaven lies about us in our infancy : Our birth is but a sleep and a ...
... young imagination of the child , strange and glorious fancies lie ; that dim recollections of a prior existence and a grander home occupy the cranium of a child . " Heaven lies about us in our infancy : Our birth is but a sleep and a ...
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... young sparrow , when it grows old enough , will , if strong , turn its father and mother out of their nest ; if weak , will be driven a - field to look out for itself . The very hen of our farm - yards merely extends her love and her ...
... young sparrow , when it grows old enough , will , if strong , turn its father and mother out of their nest ; if weak , will be driven a - field to look out for itself . The very hen of our farm - yards merely extends her love and her ...
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... Young - tells us that a man may be clever , skilful , learned , and able , and yet , freely speaking , a fool . " Man , " he says , " know thyself all wisdom centres there ; " and this self - know- ledge is one , not only of good , but ...
... Young - tells us that a man may be clever , skilful , learned , and able , and yet , freely speaking , a fool . " Man , " he says , " know thyself all wisdom centres there ; " and this self - know- ledge is one , not only of good , but ...
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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.