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الصفحة 247 - The genius, being moved with compassion towards me, bid me quit so uncomfortable a prospect"; "I was forced to quit my first lodgings, by reason of an officious landlady, that would be asking me every morning how I had slept.
الصفحة 222 - your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for.
الصفحة 95 - She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed.
الصفحة 302 - for let it be observed, that it is the tense of the governing verb only that marks the absolute time; the tense of the verb governed marks solely its relative time with respect to the other. Thus I should say, 'I always intended to write to my father, though I have not yet done it.'
الصفحة 285 - to an active mind it may be easier to bear along all the qualifications of an idea and at once rightly form it when named, than to first imperfectly conceive such idea and then carry back to it, one by one, the details and limitations afterwards mentioned.'
الصفحة 127 - Can you lie three in a bed 1 No. Then you will never do for a school. Have you got a good stomach ? Yes. Then you will by no means do for a school.
الصفحة 250 - Yet we, who are transgressors in this kind, Dwelling retired in our simplicity Among the woods and fields, we love you well, Joanna! and I guess, since you have been So distant from us now for two long years, That you will gladly listen to discourse.
الصفحة 173 - How could he see to do them? having made one Methinks it should have power to steal both his And leave itself unfurnish'd. (III. ii.
الصفحة 67 - A great nation, for instance, does not spend its entire national wits for a couple of months in weighing evidence of a single ruffian's having done a single murder; and for a couple of years see its own children murder each other,
الصفحة 46 - pausing between every sentence to rap the floor" . . . "said Mr. Poyser, turning his head on one side in a dubitative manner, and giving a precautionary puff to his pipe between each sentence." The writer is not recommending this locution but showing that it is not an unauthorized vulgarism.