Littell's Living Age, Volume 211Littell, Son and Company, 1896 |
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... Mind ye , Patrick ( he used to say ) , that the Good Book says , " a soft answer turn- eth away wrath . " Now keep your tem- per , laddie . Never quarrel wi ' an angry person , specially a woman . Mind ye , a soft answer's aye best ...
... Mind ye , Patrick ( he used to say ) , that the Good Book says , " a soft answer turn- eth away wrath . " Now keep your tem- per , laddie . Never quarrel wi ' an angry person , specially a woman . Mind ye , a soft answer's aye best ...
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... mind by foreign travel and diligent study . Among such a variety of engrossing occupations it may well be supposed that so trivial a matter as a dream , if not dismissed from his mind , was at least no longer viewed with the exag ...
... mind by foreign travel and diligent study . Among such a variety of engrossing occupations it may well be supposed that so trivial a matter as a dream , if not dismissed from his mind , was at least no longer viewed with the exag ...
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... mind running only on " cases " and " points , " was at all times wholly repugnant to him . He had , on going to the Bar , the supreme advantage of a business train- ing . In his father's bank he acquired a knowledge of business ways and ...
... mind running only on " cases " and " points , " was at all times wholly repugnant to him . He had , on going to the Bar , the supreme advantage of a business train- ing . In his father's bank he acquired a knowledge of business ways and ...
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... mind against tyranny ; and the moral effect of his statement of the Common Law was immense . Chief Justice Erle wrote to him with enthusiasm of the terms of his direction : - They are spoken by a seer ; they are adopted by the strong minds ...
... mind against tyranny ; and the moral effect of his statement of the Common Law was immense . Chief Justice Erle wrote to him with enthusiasm of the terms of his direction : - They are spoken by a seer ; they are adopted by the strong minds ...
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... mind in regard to one's own iniquity go further ? For although Pepys puts the axiom in " my Lord's " mouth , " my Lord " merely hinted it ; it was Pepys who gave it the admirable expression just quoted ; his unmistakable hallmark is on ...
... mind in regard to one's own iniquity go further ? For although Pepys puts the axiom in " my Lord's " mouth , " my Lord " merely hinted it ; it was Pepys who gave it the admirable expression just quoted ; his unmistakable hallmark is on ...
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Page 135 - The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Page 298 - All scattered in the bottom of the sea, Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Page 628 - I have taken note of it; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? FIRST CLO. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Page 135 - She wanders lowing here and there, And yet she cannot stray, All in the pleasant open air, The pleasant light of day; And blown by all the winds that pass And wet with all the showers, She walks among the meadow grass And eats the meadow flowers.
Page 138 - He saw her lift her eyes; he felt The soft hand's light caressing, And heard the tremble of her voice, As if a fault confessing. "I'm sorry that I spelt the word: I hate to go above you, Because," — the brown eyes lower fell, — "Because, you see, I love you!
Page 628 - The practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.
Page 60 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage.
Page 301 - The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon — The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Page 137 - LOOKING FORWARD WHEN I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Page 138 - For near her stood the little boy Her childish favor singled; His cap pulled low upon a face Where pride and shame were mingled. Pushing with restless feet the snow To right and left, he lingered; As restlessly her tiny hands The blue-checked apron fingered.