Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Band 15Charles Dudley Warner International Society, 1896 |
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... close beneath their room , it looked up to them sobbing , and Bertalda thought she recognized through the veil the pale features of Undine . But the mourning form passed on , sad , reluctant , and lingering , as if going to the place of ...
... close beneath their room , it looked up to them sobbing , and Bertalda thought she recognized through the veil the pale features of Undine . But the mourning form passed on , sad , reluctant , and lingering , as if going to the place of ...
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... close this imperfect sketch of America's most illustrious citizen , than by quoting from a touching and most affec- tionate letter from Mrs. Hewson ( Margaret Stevenson ) , - one of Frank- lin's worthiest , most faithful , and most ...
... close this imperfect sketch of America's most illustrious citizen , than by quoting from a touching and most affec- tionate letter from Mrs. Hewson ( Margaret Stevenson ) , - one of Frank- lin's worthiest , most faithful , and most ...
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... close attendance and continual reasons with each other , our different sentiments on almost every question , several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes , is , methinks , a melan- choly proof of the imperfection of the human ...
... close attendance and continual reasons with each other , our different sentiments on almost every question , several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes , is , methinks , a melan- choly proof of the imperfection of the human ...
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... close of the thirteenth cen- tury we see the England with which we are still familiar , young indeed and tender , but still possessing more than the germs , - the very things themselves . She has already King , Lords , and Commons ; she ...
... close of the thirteenth cen- tury we see the England with which we are still familiar , young indeed and tender , but still possessing more than the germs , - the very things themselves . She has already King , Lords , and Commons ; she ...
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... close of the century is , for the first time since the Conquest , ruled by a prince bear- ing a purely English name , and following a purely English pol- icy . Edward the First was no doubt as despotic as he could be or dared to be ; so ...
... close of the century is , for the first time since the Conquest , ruled by a prince bear- ing a purely English name , and following a purely English pol- icy . Edward the First was no doubt as despotic as he could be or dared to be ; so ...
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admirable archbishop arms ARNE GARBORG asked ballad Bates battle battle of Poitiers beautiful called century character child Church Cranford dance dear death door England English Englishmen eyes Fanferlot father folk-song Foote France Franklin French King friends Gautier German HAMLIN GARLAND hand head heard heart heaven honor human Jane JOHN GAY King of England knew knights ladies Lecoq literary live look Lord lyric Madame Fauvel Maurice Francis Egan mind Miss Barker mother nature never Normandy novels passed Perkin Warbeck poems poet poetry political poor Prince Provençal race Raoul Raschke Roman Samuel Foote seemed sing song soul spirit stood story thee Théophile Gautier things Thomas Fuller thou thought tion took town turned Undine verse William Fitz-Osbern words writing young
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Seite 5959 - I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly...
Seite 5946 - 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 5942 - They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows: " Friends," says he, " the taxes are, indeed, very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us.
Seite 5955 - 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 5934 - 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 - I had made of the sense of all ages and nations. However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it, and though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer.
Seite 5946 - I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men.
Seite 5956 - 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 6129 - He studieth his scholars' natures as carefully as they their books; and ranks their dispositions into several forms. And though it may seem difficult for him in a great school to descend to all particulars, yet experienced schoolmasters may quickly make a grammar of boys' natures, and reduce them all — saving some few exceptions — to these general rules : 1.
Seite 5929 - The next observed, that the word makes might as well be omitted, because his customers would not care who made the hats; if good, and to their mind, they would buy, by whomsoever made. He struck it out. A third said he thought the words for ready money, were useless, as it was not the custom of the place to sell on credit.