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... thing in the letter jarred with her ideal ; thought Alice very pretty and bewitching she was too innocent , too ... thing - I say it , and I mean it . Am I to talk sentimental nonsense about them when they have mercilessly disowned and ...
... thing in the letter jarred with her ideal ; thought Alice very pretty and bewitching she was too innocent , too ... thing - I say it , and I mean it . Am I to talk sentimental nonsense about them when they have mercilessly disowned and ...
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... thing . Q. What was the Englishman like ? " A. You are a tall man , but he was only about so high , but he was of more years . You have much hair on your face ; as to the Englishman , no , it was not so . " Q. Then he did not have any ...
... thing . Q. What was the Englishman like ? " A. You are a tall man , but he was only about so high , but he was of more years . You have much hair on your face ; as to the Englishman , no , it was not so . " Q. Then he did not have any ...
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... thing in his hand to look on the sun with . " Q. Now show me what you mean ; how did he do this ? " " This brought out all the singular capability of the savage for pantomimic illustration . The old chief gravely took up a piece of ...
... thing in his hand to look on the sun with . " Q. Now show me what you mean ; how did he do this ? " " This brought out all the singular capability of the savage for pantomimic illustration . The old chief gravely took up a piece of ...
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... thing last week in feebler words , to use that expression demned for blasphemy . The power of " crocodile tears , " it would have been con- speaking plainly , not to say the wish to speak plainly , seems to have gone out of the modern ...
... thing last week in feebler words , to use that expression demned for blasphemy . The power of " crocodile tears , " it would have been con- speaking plainly , not to say the wish to speak plainly , seems to have gone out of the modern ...
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... thing to be a junior lord of the Treasury , though he acknowl- edged to himself that to have made a success- ful beginning was a very great thing . But his friends were loud in their congratulations , or condolements as the case might ...
... thing to be a junior lord of the Treasury , though he acknowl- edged to himself that to have made a success- ful beginning was a very great thing . But his friends were loud in their congratulations , or condolements as the case might ...
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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.