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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... 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 looking so tired what a long ride I've had ; and if he is sent on beforehand , I ...
... 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 looking so tired what a long ride I've had ; and if he is sent on beforehand , I ...
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... leading incidents grafted on the leading idea . The fidelity with which the Hindoo and the German tales adhere to this framework is indeed astonishing . One of the most remarkable of these concidences is furnished by the story of the ...
... leading incidents grafted on the leading idea . The fidelity with which the Hindoo and the German tales adhere to this framework is indeed astonishing . One of the most remarkable of these concidences is furnished by the story of the ...
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... leading idea . This idea is that beings of no repute may be avengers of successful wrong - doers , or to put it in the language of St. Paul , that the weak things of the earth may be chosen to confound the strong , and foolish things to ...
... leading idea . This idea is that beings of no repute may be avengers of successful wrong - doers , or to put it in the language of St. Paul , that the weak things of the earth may be chosen to confound the strong , and foolish things to ...
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... leading him to drive his three sons away from their home on groundless charges . At last , finding that he had been cheated , he scourges the goat , which makes the best of its way from his dwelling . Meanwhile the three sons had each ...
... leading him to drive his three sons away from their home on groundless charges . At last , finding that he had been cheated , he scourges the goat , which makes the best of its way from his dwelling . Meanwhile the three sons had each ...
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... leading the barber to expel his children , but by cheating him of the fruits of his garden . The parallel , however , is not confined to the fact of the false pretences ; the barber retaliates , like the tailor , and inflicts a severe ...
... leading the barber to expel his children , but by cheating him of the fruits of his garden . The parallel , however , is not confined to the fact of the false pretences ; the barber retaliates , like the tailor , and inflicts a severe ...
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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.