Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-ZCharles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne R.S. Peale and J.A. Hill, 1897 |
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... told , lived simply in a small house , at- tended by one servant only . This same handmaid takes part in a little comedy , which in the arid waste of Roman gravity may almost count as funny : - " When Scipio Nasica once came to call on ...
... told , lived simply in a small house , at- tended by one servant only . This same handmaid takes part in a little comedy , which in the arid waste of Roman gravity may almost count as funny : - " When Scipio Nasica once came to call on ...
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... told that his father had embraced the cause of the government and was a traitor , and that most likely he would be a traitor himself . He had a boy's igno- rance of politics , but went home determined to understand the situa- tion ; and ...
... told that his father had embraced the cause of the government and was a traitor , and that most likely he would be a traitor himself . He had a boy's igno- rance of politics , but went home determined to understand the situa- tion ; and ...
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... told me that I am to be hanged ; why then should I waste my words in an attempt to save my life ? I'll confess anything you like , I don't care what it is ; for believe me , if it had not been for my family , I would never have waited ...
... told me that I am to be hanged ; why then should I waste my words in an attempt to save my life ? I'll confess anything you like , I don't care what it is ; for believe me , if it had not been for my family , I would never have waited ...
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... told me all about it . " " Nihil ad rem ! " said Zatonyi . " But what does it avail me ? " continued the prisoner , whose pale face became flushed as he spoke . " What can it avail me to tell you all the revolting cruelties which were ...
... told me all about it . " " Nihil ad rem ! " said Zatonyi . " But what does it avail me ? " continued the prisoner , whose pale face became flushed as he spoke . " What can it avail me to tell you all the revolting cruelties which were ...
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... told me that the two gentlemen were near me , and I felt somebody snatch the papers from my hand . " " Do you mean to say that the smoke in the hut was very dense ? " " I could not see through it ; at times the flames were SO fierce ...
... told me that the two gentlemen were near me , and I felt somebody snatch the papers from my hand . " " Do you mean to say that the smoke in the hut was very dense ? " " I could not see through it ; at times the flames were SO fierce ...
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Seite 5766 - How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 5930 - Hatter, makes and sells hats for ready money,' with a figure of a hat subjoined ; but he thought he would submit it to his friends for their amendments. The first he showed it to thought the word ' Hatter ' tautologous, because followed by the words ' makes hats,
Seite 5948 - The small progress we have made after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, — our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, — is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We, indeed, seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different...
Seite 5957 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...
Seite 5936 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Seite 5946 - Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.' And after all, of what use is this pride of appearance for which so much is risked, so much is suffered? It cannot promote health nor ease pain ; it makes no increase of merit in the person ; it creates envy ; it hastens misfortune.
Seite 5958 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Seite 5944 - I stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What would you advise us to do ? " Father Abraham stood up and replied, " If you would...
Seite 5873 - ... heart grown cauld to me When we came in by Glasgow town We were a comely sight to see ; My Love was clad in the black velvet, And I myself in cramasie. But had I wist, before I kist...
Seite 5598 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like a hideous storm; and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at the last one was not able to approach it...