English Essays ...: Popular tales of Hindostan and Germany. Longfellow. Pitt. I. The duchess of Kent. George Stephenson. The modern Russian drama. Travels in the Caucasus. La Bruyère. Napoleon IO. Meissner, 1870 |
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... king as familiarly as Themistokles is said to have addressed Artaxerxes . When the Rajah in the story of ' Truth's Triumph ' wishes to marry the gardener's daughter , he receives the blunt answer : ' Rajah or no rajah is all one to me ...
... king as familiarly as Themistokles is said to have addressed Artaxerxes . When the Rajah in the story of ' Truth's Triumph ' wishes to marry the gardener's daughter , he receives the blunt answer : ' Rajah or no rajah is all one to me ...
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... king's tent a letter of abject submission , and with this prize he returns home , leading the horse which he dares not remount . On reaching home he bids his wife send the horse and the letter to the rajah . He will see by the horse ...
... king's tent a letter of abject submission , and with this prize he returns home , leading the horse which he dares not remount . On reaching home he bids his wife send the horse and the letter to the rajah . He will see by the horse ...
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... king , who are hunting , and each takes one of the princesses as a wife , the handsomest of course marrying the youngest . After a brief time of happiness the eldest prince sets off on a journey and does not return . His six brothers ...
... king , who are hunting , and each takes one of the princesses as a wife , the handsomest of course marrying the youngest . After a brief time of happiness the eldest prince sets off on a journey and does not return . His six brothers ...
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... kings , courtiers , officers , and servants . Still the magician prayed to have his parrot given him . Then the boy ... king who has seven sons , but instead of all seven being sent to hunt or woo , the youngest is left at home ; and ...
... kings , courtiers , officers , and servants . Still the magician prayed to have his parrot given him . Then the boy ... king who has seven sons , but instead of all seven being sent to hunt or woo , the youngest is left at home ; and ...
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... king had seen the likeness of a maiden whose beauty made him faint with love , that he could not be withheld from seeking her , that his faithful friend went with him and helped him to win his bride , that certain wise birds predicted ...
... king had seen the likeness of a maiden whose beauty made him faint with love , that he could not be withheld from seeking her , that his faithful friend went with him and helped him to win his bride , that certain wise birds predicted ...
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Էջ 316 - Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind...
Էջ 43 - O'er the ocean wild and wide ! For my heart was hot and restless, And my life was full of care, And the burden laid upon me Seemed greater than I could bear.
Էջ 43 - Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Էջ 250 - Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.
Էջ 141 - I have said will come to pass as sure as you live. I only wish I may live to see the day, though that I can scarcely hope for, as I know how slow all human progress is, and with what difficulty I have been able to get the locomotive adopted, notwithstanding my more than ten years' successful experiment at Killingworth.
Էջ 151 - would rather meet a highwayman, or see a burglar on his premises, than an engineer ; he should be much more safe, and of the two classes he thought the former more respectable...
Էջ 89 - British barbarians, have predicted with equal boldness, " there is a people that will never rise to civilisation — there is a people destined never to be free — a people without the understanding necessary for the attainment of useful arts ; depressed by the hand of nature below the level of the human species ; and created to form a supply of slaves for the rest of the world.
Էջ 68 - Temple to say, that whoever voted for the India bill was not only not his friend, but would be considered by him as his enemy. And if these words were not strong enough, Earl Temple might use whatever words he might deem stronger or more to the purpose.
Էջ 44 - Comes the thought of other years. And I think how many thousands Of care-encumbered men, Each bearing his burden of sorrow, Have crossed the bridge since then. I see the long procession Still passing to and fro, The young heart hot and restless, And the old subdued and slow ! And...
Էջ 25 - Punchkin then stretched out his left arm, crying, "•Give me my parrot." The prince pulled of the parrot's second wing, and the magician's left arm tumbled off. ' "Give me my parrot," cried he, and fell on his knees. The prince pulled off the parrot's right leg, the magician's right leg fell off; the prince pulled off the parrot's left leg, down fell the magician's left. 'Nothing remained of him save the limbless body and the head; but still he rolled his eyes, and cried, "Give me my parrot.