The Great Exhibition: With Continental Sketches, Practical and HumorousHurd & Houghton, 1868 - 486 من الصفحات |
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... humanity , with little more life than a lump of dough . 66 The most famous moralist of our age — by which I mean Mr. Pecksniff and not Doctor Johnson wisely remarked to his charming daughters , My dears , even cream , sugar , toast ...
... humanity , with little more life than a lump of dough . 66 The most famous moralist of our age — by which I mean Mr. Pecksniff and not Doctor Johnson wisely remarked to his charming daughters , My dears , even cream , sugar , toast ...
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... when every item of knowledge is precious , and in a community that incessantly gasps for it , one has a natural curiosity to learn if sea - sickness always thus tormented our weak humanity . When Noah emigrated , TRANSITORY HORRORS . 7.
... when every item of knowledge is precious , and in a community that incessantly gasps for it , one has a natural curiosity to learn if sea - sickness always thus tormented our weak humanity . When Noah emigrated , TRANSITORY HORRORS . 7.
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With Continental Sketches, Practical and Humorous Howard Payson Arnold. thus tormented our weak humanity . When Noah emigrated , did he cast his bread upon the waters ? When the Grecian chiefs departed for Troy , did Nestor and Agamemnon ...
With Continental Sketches, Practical and Humorous Howard Payson Arnold. thus tormented our weak humanity . When Noah emigrated , did he cast his bread upon the waters ? When the Grecian chiefs departed for Troy , did Nestor and Agamemnon ...
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... humanity by using the whip to the full force of their little biceps . They are but an epitome of the old reproach cast upon our race : " What a lovely day it is . Let's go out and kill something . " Their less favored companions dig up ...
... humanity by using the whip to the full force of their little biceps . They are but an epitome of the old reproach cast upon our race : " What a lovely day it is . Let's go out and kill something . " Their less favored companions dig up ...
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... human being or a hippogriff . " Never , be- lieve me , appear the Immortals , never alone , " and so it was with the Celestial family of Pin - Ta - Jing . They generally hunted in couples , probably from an idea that they were safer ...
... human being or a hippogriff . " Never , be- lieve me , appear the Immortals , never alone , " and so it was with the Celestial family of Pin - Ta - Jing . They generally hunted in couples , probably from an idea that they were safer ...
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الصفحة 76 - Johnson — laughed heartily when I mentioned to him a saying of his concerning Mr. Thomas Sheridan, which Foote took a wicked pleasure to circulate. ' Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull ; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in nature.
الصفحة 356 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep ; the more I give to thee The more I have, for both are infinite.
الصفحة 418 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth, but a good book is a precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to
الصفحة 13 - her, nor custom stale her infinite variety ; others cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies, for vilest things become themselves in her.
الصفحة 56 - continuance of the same. Would Mr. Boswell name the house to his extensive acquaintance, it would be a singular favor conferred on one who has it not in her power to make any other return, but her most grateful thanks and sincerest prayers for his happiness in time, and in a blessed eternity.
الصفحة 210 - rapidity of their conceptions, the fire of their genius, their sense of beauty, — and amidst all the disadvantages of repeated revolutions, the desolation of battles, and the despair of ages, their still unquenched 'longing after immortality,' — the immortality of independence.
الصفحة 486 - tine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold; — For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for lesse be told.
الصفحة 467 - Since light so necessary is to life And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part.
الصفحة 107 - Each lonely place shall him restore, For him the tear be duly shed; Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned till Pity's self be dead.
الصفحة 480 - troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; in