Littell's Living Age, Volume 99Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1868 |
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Page 87
... believe that Mr. Roper had met his death by his own rash act . The justices shook their heads very much over it , and admin- istered little parental reproofs all round , ad- monishing Mr. Marten and me for having dared to conceal the ...
... believe that Mr. Roper had met his death by his own rash act . The justices shook their heads very much over it , and admin- istered little parental reproofs all round , ad- monishing Mr. Marten and me for having dared to conceal the ...
Page 93
... believe her ? I shall not be surprised if Mr. Herbert goes out after them . For in this world , wonders never cease . The other evening when I was at the Great Farm , in the dining - room , where that portrait's face is now decently ...
... believe her ? I shall not be surprised if Mr. Herbert goes out after them . For in this world , wonders never cease . The other evening when I was at the Great Farm , in the dining - room , where that portrait's face is now decently ...
Page 95
... believe , seized me , for Culduff sent for a physician when I got back to the hotel , and our departure was deferred . " My nerves have been so shaken by this incident , and my recollection is still so charged with this odious woman's ...
... believe , seized me , for Culduff sent for a physician when I got back to the hotel , and our departure was deferred . " My nerves have been so shaken by this incident , and my recollection is still so charged with this odious woman's ...
Page 97
... believe that in keeping out of sight here at this moment he will be exercis- ing a most refined delicacy , doing what nothing short of a high - bred sensibility would ever have dreamed of , and you'll see he'll be as delighted with his ...
... believe that in keeping out of sight here at this moment he will be exercis- ing a most refined delicacy , doing what nothing short of a high - bred sensibility would ever have dreamed of , and you'll see he'll be as delighted with his ...
Page 98
... believe noth- " My dear Mr. Cutbill , I have exhausted ing but his regard for poor dear papa would all my compliments . I can only say I en- have made him forgive Augustus ; and dorse all the preceding with compound in- when I tell you ...
... believe noth- " My dear Mr. Cutbill , I have exhausted ing but his regard for poor dear papa would all my compliments . I can only say I en- have made him forgive Augustus ; and dorse all the preceding with compound in- when I tell you ...
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Page 311 - Go thy way : for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel : for I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
Page 460 - ... the passage from' the current to the needle, if not demonstrable, is thinkable, and that we entertain no doubt as to the final mechanical solution of the problem. But the passage from the physics of the brain to the corresponding facts of consciousness is unthinkable. Granted that a definite thought, and a definite molecular action in the brain occur simultaneously ; we do not possess the intellectual organ, nor apparently any rudiment of the organ, which would enable us to pass, by a process...
Page 286 - That thence the Royal actor borne The tragic scaffold might adorn : While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try; Nor call'd the Gods, with vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 448 - The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Page 47 - Would I describe a preacher, such as Paul, Were he on Earth, would hear, approve, and own, Paul should himself direct me. I would trace His master-strokes, and draw from his design. I would express him simple, grave, sincere ; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner...
Page 461 - ... to the other. They appear together, but we do not know why. Were our minds and senses so expanded, strengthened and illuminated as to enable us to see and feel the very molecules of the brain ; were we capable of following all their motions, all their groupings, all their electric discharges, if such there be ; and were we intimately acquainted with the corresponding states of thought and feeling, we should be as far as ever from the • solution of the problem, ' How are these physical processes...
Page 199 - Until they won her ; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Page 80 - Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him. Is Sin, then — which we deem such a dreadful blackness in the universe — is it, like Sorrow, merely an element of human education, through which we struggle to a higher and purer state than we could otherwise have attained? Did Adam fall, that we might ultimately rise to a far loftier paradise than his?
Page 448 - Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.