The Book of Humour, Wit & Wisdom: A Manual of Table-talkLee & Shepard, 1874 - 365 Seiten |
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... BONaparte . At the close of the year 1820 , Napoleon's health began to fail so as to excite the greatest apprehensions . On receiving intelligence of the decease of his sister Eliza , he was much affected . He rose from his seat , and ...
... BONaparte . At the close of the year 1820 , Napoleon's health began to fail so as to excite the greatest apprehensions . On receiving intelligence of the decease of his sister Eliza , he was much affected . He rose from his seat , and ...
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... BONAPARTE'S ESTIMATE OF BRITISH SAILORs . " I had always a high opinion of your seamen , " said Napoleon one day to O'Meara , in a conversation arising out of our expedition to Algiers . " When I was returning from Holland , along with ...
... BONAPARTE'S ESTIMATE OF BRITISH SAILORs . " I had always a high opinion of your seamen , " said Napoleon one day to O'Meara , in a conversation arising out of our expedition to Algiers . " When I was returning from Holland , along with ...
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... , and then I should be of course despatched , and he might write home to his government , that Bonaparte was killed in a brawl ! I also told him my to leave me alone , and not to torment me 36 Book of Humour , A CONDITIONAL PRAYER. ...
... , and then I should be of course despatched , and he might write home to his government , that Bonaparte was killed in a brawl ! I also told him my to leave me alone , and not to torment me 36 Book of Humour , A CONDITIONAL PRAYER. ...
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... Bonaparte's carelessness as to correct- ness in writing and spelling , Las Cases says : — “ One day he said to me , ' You do not write orthographically , do you ? At least , I suppose you do not ; for a man occupied with public or other ...
... Bonaparte's carelessness as to correct- ness in writing and spelling , Las Cases says : — “ One day he said to me , ' You do not write orthographically , do you ? At least , I suppose you do not ; for a man occupied with public or other ...
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... BONAPARTE AS A SCHOOLBOY . The following is a copy of the certificate given to the great Napoleon on leaving school . It was handed to him for presentation to the king of France by the in- spector of the College of Brienne : - M. de ...
... BONAPARTE AS A SCHOOLBOY . The following is a copy of the certificate given to the great Napoleon on leaving school . It was handed to him for presentation to the king of France by the in- spector of the College of Brienne : - M. de ...
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Seite 102 - We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live, are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
Seite 213 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Seite 190 - A man who has been brought up among books, and is able to talk of nothing else, is a very indifferent companion, and what we call a pedant. But, methinks, we should enlarge the title, and give it to every one that does not know how to think out of his profession and particular way of life.
Seite 137 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
Seite 62 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Seite 51 - let the errors and follies, the dangers and escape of this day, sink deep into thy heart. Remember, my son, that human life is the journey of a day. We rise in the morning of youth, full of vigour, and full of expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope, with gaiety and with diligence, and travel on a while in the straight road of piety towards the mansions of rest.
Seite 31 - what we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention ; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.
Seite 122 - ... may be content to live while he is no trouble to himself or his friends; but after that, it is hard if he be not content to die. I knew and esteemed a person abroad who used to say, a man must be a mean wretch who desired to live after threescore years old. But so much, I doubt, is certain, that in life, as in wine, he that will drink it good must not draw it to the dregs.
Seite 193 - ... 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.
Seite 192 - ... the ground, and gold they found none, but by reason of their stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the year following...