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... master and friend , Professor Syme , whose indenture I am thankful I possess , and whose first wheels I delight in thinking my apprentice - fee purchased , thirty years ago . I re- member as if it were yesterday , his giving me the ...
... master and friend , Professor Syme , whose indenture I am thankful I possess , and whose first wheels I delight in thinking my apprentice - fee purchased , thirty years ago . I re- member as if it were yesterday , his giving me the ...
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... master told his young friends that the bladder he had filled with the gas must , on principle , ascend ; but that they would see practically if it did , and he cut the string . Up it rushed , amid the shouts and upturned faces of the ...
... master told his young friends that the bladder he had filled with the gas must , on principle , ascend ; but that they would see practically if it did , and he cut the string . Up it rushed , amid the shouts and upturned faces of the ...
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... master , a brown , handsome , big young shepherd from Tweedsmuir , would have liked to have knocked down any man , would " drink up Esil , or eat a crocodile , ” for that part , if he had a chance : it was no use kicking the little dog ...
... master , a brown , handsome , big young shepherd from Tweedsmuir , would have liked to have knocked down any man , would " drink up Esil , or eat a crocodile , ” for that part , if he had a chance : it was no use kicking the little dog ...
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... master's eye , slunk dismayed under the cart , his ears down , and as much as he had of tail down too . What a man this must be thought I — to whom my tremendous hero turns tail ! The carrier saw the muzzle hanging , cut and useless ...
... master's eye , slunk dismayed under the cart , his ears down , and as much as he had of tail down too . What a man this must be thought I — to whom my tremendous hero turns tail ! The carrier saw the muzzle hanging , cut and useless ...
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... master I occasionally saw ; he used to call me " Maister John , " but was laconic as any Spartan . One fine October afternoon , I was leaving the hospital , when I saw the large gate open , and in walked Rab , with that great and easy ...
... master I occasionally saw ; he used to call me " Maister John , " but was laconic as any Spartan . One fine October afternoon , I was leaving the hospital , when I saw the large gate open , and in walked Rab , with that great and easy ...
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Seite 210 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Seite 195 - They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear...
Seite 349 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Seite 327 - I saw eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright; And round beneath it, time in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled...
Seite 244 - O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still...
Seite 210 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Seite 432 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Seite 283 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Seite 291 - Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace : Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet ; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.
Seite 203 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own...