Head and Hand, Or, Thought and Action in Relation to Success and HappinessHoulston and Wright, 1861 - 272 pages |
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Page 210 - ... an infant blossom ; and the breath of the south can shake the little rings of the vine, when first they begin to curl like the locks of a new-weaned boy; but when by age and consolidation they stiffen into the hardness of a stem, and have, by the warm embraces of the sun and the kisses of heaven, brought forth their clusters, they can endure the storms of the north, and the loud noises of a tempest, and yet never be broken...
Page 209 - Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity...
Page 204 - There is nothing of so great importance to us, as the good qualities of one to whom we join ourselves for life ; they do not only make our present state agreeable, but often determine our happiness to all eternity.
Page 209 - ... but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labours and unites into societies and republics, and sends out colonies, and feeds the world with delicacies, and obeys their king, and keeps order, and exercises many virtues, and promotes the interest of mankind, and is that state of good things to which God hath designed the present constitution of the world.
Page 212 - I; that in the night she knew there came a post from Paris from the queen, and that she would be extremely glad to hear what the queen commanded the king in order to his affairs; saying, if...
Page 213 - I told him, I heard the Prince had received a packet from the Queen, and I guessed it was that in his hand, and I desired to know what was in it ; he smilingly replied, ' My love, I will immediately come to thee, pray thee go, for I am very busy.
Page 219 - Friday evening) my lady left him ; he kissed her four or five times ; and she kept her sorrow so within herself, that she gave him no disturbance at their parting. After she was gone, he said, ' Now the bitterness of death is past...
Page 213 - thou dost not care to see me troubled :" to which he taking me in his...
Page 213 - I am very busy :" when he came out of his closet I revived my suit ; he kissed me, and talked of other things. At supper I would eat nothing ; he as usual sat by me, and drank often to me, which was his custom, and was full of discourse to company that was at table. Going to bed I asked...
Page 214 - So great was his reason and goodness, that upon consideration it made my folly appear to me so vile, that from that day until the day of his death I never thought fit to ask him any business but what he communicated freely to me in order to his estate or family.