Littell's Living Age, Հատոր 95Living Age Company Incorporated, 1867 |
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... course , according to our natural English course of action , take tardy measures of precaution . We will attempt , in the face of all our traditions and habits , to establish the Index Expurgatorius ; we will lock up the books which are ...
... course , according to our natural English course of action , take tardy measures of precaution . We will attempt , in the face of all our traditions and habits , to establish the Index Expurgatorius ; we will lock up the books which are ...
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... course , sub- agent in Strathmore ' and Idalia seems jugated at once by this gorgeous combina- something remarkable . Hair , indeed , in tion of colour . Margaret makes great play general , has become one of the leading with her hair ...
... course , sub- agent in Strathmore ' and Idalia seems jugated at once by this gorgeous combina- something remarkable . Hair , indeed , in tion of colour . Margaret makes great play general , has become one of the leading with her hair ...
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... course he duly punishes it , still elevates her above the dull mother and gushing sister of her artist - husband . And when her real husband has disdainfully spurned her , she becomes a heroine . When she is found , she makes a little ...
... course he duly punishes it , still elevates her above the dull mother and gushing sister of her artist - husband . And when her real husband has disdainfully spurned her , she becomes a heroine . When she is found , she makes a little ...
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... course , sir , all you may have to say on this or any other subject I am bound to listen to with respect ; but as for Sara and her interference " " Don't be a fool , Jack , " said Mr. Brownlow sharply . " Sara has told me nothing that I ...
... course , sir , all you may have to say on this or any other subject I am bound to listen to with respect ; but as for Sara and her interference " " Don't be a fool , Jack , " said Mr. Brownlow sharply . " Sara has told me nothing that I ...
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... course if you wait ten years you will change your mind . ' " I have not the least intention of waiting ten years , " said Jack . 46 " Then perhaps you will be so good as to in- form me what your intentions are , " said his father , with ...
... course if you wait ten years you will change your mind . ' " I have not the least intention of waiting ten years , " said Jack . 46 " Then perhaps you will be so good as to in- form me what your intentions are , " said his father , with ...
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Էջ 83 - This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them : and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Էջ 71 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! Each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe...
Էջ 430 - Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt.
Էջ 105 - Then let us study to preserve it so : and while Hope pictures to us a flattering scene of future bliss, let us deny its pencil those colours which are too bright to be lasting.
Էջ 382 - I had always been fond of beautiful gardens ; and, a gardener, who had just come from the King's gardens at Kew, gave such a description of them as made me instantly resolve to work in these gardens.
Էջ 427 - A penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree. His wig was weel pouther'd and as gude as new; His waistcoat was white, his coat it was blue: He put on a ring, a sword, and cock'd hat, — And wha could refuse the Laird wi' a
Էջ 71 - How could communities Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows...
Էջ 382 - The book was so different from anything that I had ever read before : it was something so new to my mind, that, though I could not at all understand some of it, it delighted me beyond description ; and it produced what I have always considered a sort of birth of intellect.
Էջ 104 - I should think might as well be let alone. Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Էջ 73 - Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in, but it likewise carries its own authority with it, that it is our natural guide, the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature...