Dragons' Teeth, Volume 1L. Booth, 1863 - English fiction |
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Page 17
... remark , that the gout some- times answers every purpose of a quiet profession to many an idle man . However , men conscious of an inferior pedi- gree are almost always ambitious of high society : and since Mr. Walford's age and ...
... remark , that the gout some- times answers every purpose of a quiet profession to many an idle man . However , men conscious of an inferior pedi- gree are almost always ambitious of high society : and since Mr. Walford's age and ...
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... remarks on things in general : as also , in one vain and life - long attempt to rise above their proper element , forgetting that certain hissing , stupid , heavy birds , were never meant to fly . Miss Onslow , therefore , did not ...
... remarks on things in general : as also , in one vain and life - long attempt to rise above their proper element , forgetting that certain hissing , stupid , heavy birds , were never meant to fly . Miss Onslow , therefore , did not ...
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... remark how invariably the conversation , however much it commenced in the health of the landlord , insensibly made a digression , till it ran on and ended in a deeply - interesting speculation as to what might be made of the estate . a ...
... remark how invariably the conversation , however much it commenced in the health of the landlord , insensibly made a digression , till it ran on and ended in a deeply - interesting speculation as to what might be made of the estate . a ...
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... remarked , that if Walford had continued in business , instead of realising when he did , he could never have half enjoyed himself after such a regular defeat and such a blunder as that tallow affair . " " But he left all pretty well , as ...
... remarked , that if Walford had continued in business , instead of realising when he did , he could never have half enjoyed himself after such a regular defeat and such a blunder as that tallow affair . " " But he left all pretty well , as ...
Page 78
... enough to make it quite evident that the elder brother and the younger were receiving a very different kind of education . To relate such a history without GRAVE REMARKS . 79 various feelings and reflections of a 78 DRAGONS ' TEETH .
... enough to make it quite evident that the elder brother and the younger were receiving a very different kind of education . To relate such a history without GRAVE REMARKS . 79 various feelings and reflections of a 78 DRAGONS ' TEETH .
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Page 93 - What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.
Page 206 - s weel with you gentles, that can sit in the house with handkerchers at your een, when ye lose a friend; but the like o' us maun to our work again, if our hearts were beating as hard as ony hammer.
Page 69 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 225 - This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 13 - See also Jer. vii. 29. Micah i. 16. Isaiah vii. 20. No. 958. — ii. 4. Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath, will he give for his life.] Before the invention of money, trade used to be carried on by barter ; that is, by exchanging one commodity for another. The men who had been hunting in the woods for wild beasts would carry their skins to market, and exchange them with the armourer for so many bows and arrows. As these traffickers were...
Page 85 - Eton, and the other public schools, properly so called; and we hope and trust that an effort will now be made on the part of the Masters and Fellows of Eton to do full justice to those committed to their charge.