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Page 17
... everything . What advantage , for instance , did the bookseller , on whom Dr. Johnson once called to solicit employment , get from his brutal reply : " Go buy a porter's knot and carry trunks " ? The surly natures of such men prevent ...
... everything . What advantage , for instance , did the bookseller , on whom Dr. Johnson once called to solicit employment , get from his brutal reply : " Go buy a porter's knot and carry trunks " ? The surly natures of such men prevent ...
Page 38
... everything that was unpleasant , and cared for nothing so much as his own safety , came at last to commit some of the basest deeds such as make men infamous . ” This slipping away from everything unpleasant , and only caring for present ...
... everything that was unpleasant , and cared for nothing so much as his own safety , came at last to commit some of the basest deeds such as make men infamous . ” This slipping away from everything unpleasant , and only caring for present ...
Page 58
... everything we have is in the hands of the sheriff . " After a few moments of silence , his noble wife , looking him calmly in the face , said , “ Will the sheriff sell you ? " " No. " " Will he sell me ? " " No. " " Then don't say we ...
... everything we have is in the hands of the sheriff . " After a few moments of silence , his noble wife , looking him calmly in the face , said , “ Will the sheriff sell you ? " " No. " " Will he sell me ? " " No. " " Then don't say we ...
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... everything to a husband's whims , and become the humble slave of his caprices . The woman who does this without gaining more of her lord's love loses his respect . He becomes a bully , and in his heart despises and dislikes the weak ...
... everything to a husband's whims , and become the humble slave of his caprices . The woman who does this without gaining more of her lord's love loses his respect . He becomes a bully , and in his heart despises and dislikes the weak ...
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... everything they say and do has been found useful in the case of others . They are nothing if not in opposition , and become sad and submissive when they have no one to find fault with except themselves . I have just received the ...
... everything they say and do has been found useful in the case of others . They are nothing if not in opposition , and become sad and submissive when they have no one to find fault with except themselves . I have just received the ...
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Page 173 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 202 - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without Me ye can do nothing.
Page 128 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 25 - Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?
Page 230 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 228 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 238 - Think, every morning when the sun peeps through The dim, leaf-latticed windows of the grove, How jubilant the happy birds renew Their old, melodious madrigals of love ! And when you think of this, remember, too, 'Tis always morning somewhere, and above The awakening continents, from shore to shore, Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.
Page 282 - I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom ; and to lay hold on folly , till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
Page 232 - Happy who walks with him ! whom what he finds Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad majestic oak To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God.
Page 130 - The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.