With the ProfessorH. Holt, 1910 - 360 Seiten |
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... hand , the Professor had known of the cases of many optimists - among them several who had been notable for their attacks upon their brethren of the more sober type- who had failed miserably in their time of stress . The toothache , an ...
... hand , the Professor had known of the cases of many optimists - among them several who had been notable for their attacks upon their brethren of the more sober type- who had failed miserably in their time of stress . The toothache , an ...
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... added , with a sigh : " How old I am getting ! " " Nonsense ! " she replied . " Don't be so pessimistic ! " The Professor put out his hand for the notes , with an incipient frown , but thought better of his 38 With the Professor.
... added , with a sigh : " How old I am getting ! " " Nonsense ! " she replied . " Don't be so pessimistic ! " The Professor put out his hand for the notes , with an incipient frown , but thought better of his 38 With the Professor.
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... hand . For you must know that the Professor was , or had been when he came home from Europe to occupy his chair , a strictly approved product of the Great Graduate System of Scholarship . The appreciation of that fact , and of the ...
... hand . For you must know that the Professor was , or had been when he came home from Europe to occupy his chair , a strictly approved product of the Great Graduate System of Scholarship . The appreciation of that fact , and of the ...
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... hand to the plow . The two years following the taking of his degree he spent in Germany . His professors would not hear of his stopping with his present equipment . There he got new light , made ad- denda to Suffixes in S , which he ...
... hand to the plow . The two years following the taking of his degree he spent in Germany . His professors would not hear of his stopping with his present equipment . There he got new light , made ad- denda to Suffixes in S , which he ...
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... hand three styles of hat , four styles of coat , two or three styles of shoe , and all the appurtenances thereto ? Where was the ideal of plain living and high thinking ? Why not austere living and high thinking , if necessary ? These ...
... hand three styles of hat , four styles of coat , two or three styles of shoe , and all the appurtenances thereto ? Where was the ideal of plain living and high thinking ? Why not austere living and high thinking , if necessary ? These ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 99 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Seite 345 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. "But not the praise...
Seite 163 - And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Seite 333 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Seite 226 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Seite 201 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Seite 201 - Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Seite 193 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Seite 358 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.