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" The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. "
Littell's Living Age - Page 135
1896
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The Living Age, Volume 165

1885 - 846 pages
...would make any child happy, unless from triumph at having given birth to a rhyme : — The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. That is merely puerile, and you will never find children pleased at what is merely puerile. It is the...
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The Harvard Monthly, Volumes 33-34

1902 - 524 pages
...life, the child in the verses tells us of occasional bright ideas no less delectable : " The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." " When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very tall and great, And tell the other girls and boys...
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Time, Volume 2; Volume 13

Edmund Hodgson Yates, Mrs. Ellen Mary (Abdy-Williams) Whishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1885 - 776 pages
...contemporaries of Ruskm should know that subtlety ami splendour may go hand in hand. II. " The world is so fall of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kingrs." Stffeiuint. WHEN we come to look at Mr. Stevenson as a teacher, we find that in his case,...
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The Kindergarten for Teachers and Parents, Volumes 17-18

1904 - 1110 pages
...corn-popping. Rhymes: From Mother Goose: "Little Jack Horner." Lollipops' Christmas. "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." Songs: "O, Clap, Clap Our Hands." Poulsson "Finger Plays." Santa Claus: "Here Comes the One to Bring...
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Transactions, Volume 5

Illinois Society for Child-Study - 1900 - 176 pages
...purposes comes next, widening, as we enlarge our sympathies, to adaptability to larger ends. "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings," says Robert Louis Stevenson in his "Child Garden of Verses." What a delicious expression of the child's...
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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

American Mathematical Society - 1915 - 698 pages
...IN his "Child's Garden of Verses" Robert Louis Stevenson says simply but poetically: " The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." This catches the spirit of the Mengenlehre, and may well be taken as its motto. In more homely phrase...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: A child's garden of verses ...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...showers, She walks among the meadow grass And eats the meadow flowers. T XXIV HAPPY THOUGHT HE world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. XXV THE WIND I SAW you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...all the showers, She walks among the meadow grass And eats the meadow flowers. HAPPY THOUGHT world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings / XXV THE WIND 1SAW you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: A child's garden of verses ...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 400 pages
...showers, She walks among the meadow grass And eats the meadow flowers. T XXIV HAPPY THOUGHT HE world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. XXV THE WIND I SAW you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky ; And all around I heard...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 16

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 396 pages
...showers, She walks among the meadow grass And eats the meadow flowers. T XXIV HAPPY THOUGHT HE world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. XXV THE WIND I SAW you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard...
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