Choice Literature, Band 2J. B. Alden, 1880 |
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... nearly finished a long life , I set but little value on what remains of it . Like a draper when one chaffers with him for a remnant , I am ready to say , ' As it is only the fag - end I will not differ with you about it take it for what ...
... nearly finished a long life , I set but little value on what remains of it . Like a draper when one chaffers with him for a remnant , I am ready to say , ' As it is only the fag - end I will not differ with you about it take it for what ...
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... nearly a year . He consecrated the buildings he had ordered on the occasion of his first journey . Greece was in a festive condition , and lived on him and his doings . Classical memories everywhere revived . Hadrian rendered them ...
... nearly a year . He consecrated the buildings he had ordered on the occasion of his first journey . Greece was in a festive condition , and lived on him and his doings . Classical memories everywhere revived . Hadrian rendered them ...
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... nearly what it is at the present day . Mount Sion re- mained outside the walls , and was covered with market - gardens . Those parts of the town which were not rebuilt , afforded masses of dis- placed masonry , which served as quarries ...
... nearly what it is at the present day . Mount Sion re- mained outside the walls , and was covered with market - gardens . Those parts of the town which were not rebuilt , afforded masses of dis- placed masonry , which served as quarries ...
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... nearly 8000 public addresses on the subject of temperance and other topics , I am able to say that , since 1846 , I have never been in bed a whole day from illness . Yet I do not argue that alcohol is useless as a medicine ; I leave ...
... nearly 8000 public addresses on the subject of temperance and other topics , I am able to say that , since 1846 , I have never been in bed a whole day from illness . Yet I do not argue that alcohol is useless as a medicine ; I leave ...
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... nearly 2,000 feet of the height which had been assigned to it by their own observer Recupero , and they refused to accept the new measurement . Nine years later , how- ever , Sir John Herschel from barometrical observations estimated ...
... nearly 2,000 feet of the height which had been assigned to it by their own observer Recupero , and they refused to accept the new measurement . Nine years later , how- ever , Sir John Herschel from barometrical observations estimated ...
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Seite 790 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Seite 600 - Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Seite 794 - I have heard The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill -sounding throat Awake the god of day...
Seite 514 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
Seite 3 - I have long been of opinion, that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British empire lie in America; and though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are, nevertheless, broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that human wisdom ever yet erected.
Seite 32 - The new Beer Bill has begun its operations. Everybody is drunk. Those who are not singing are sprawling. The sovereign people are in a beastly state.
Seite 600 - There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute. Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
Seite 244 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Seite 651 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Seite 600 - After the death of King Wan, was not the cause of truth lodged here in me? "If Heaven had wished to let this cause of truth perish, then I, a future mortal! should not have got such a relation to that cause. While Heaven does not let the cause of truth perish, what can the people of K'wang do to me?