With the ProfessorH. Holt, 1910 - 360 Seiten |
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... Never mind , your name is on it , and you will find it when you go back , " he had replied : " Don't fool yourself ; that's the last you'll ever see of that umbrella . " At which his eldest daughter had looked up from her paradigms ...
... Never mind , your name is on it , and you will find it when you go back , " he had replied : " Don't fool yourself ; that's the last you'll ever see of that umbrella . " At which his eldest daughter had looked up from her paradigms ...
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... never been able to save from a year's salary more than a hundred and twenty - five dollars . He saw no really good reason why he should be called by a term of reproach because of his recognizing the value of lessons learned by ...
... never been able to save from a year's salary more than a hundred and twenty - five dollars . He saw no really good reason why he should be called by a term of reproach because of his recognizing the value of lessons learned by ...
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... never do . He liked talk , but at this rate he might as well have been a professor of comparative philosophy , or politics , or peda- gogy . He must have a better definition . In the library next day , his eye had by the merest chance ...
... never do . He liked talk , but at this rate he might as well have been a professor of comparative philosophy , or politics , or peda- gogy . He must have a better definition . In the library next day , his eye had by the merest chance ...
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... never heard of the terms . Such cases , however , were not frequent . Of 900 chil- dren under 10 years of age , only five were pessimists , the fact in two of the cases being traceable to fathers who were drunk 84 per cent . of their ...
... never heard of the terms . Such cases , however , were not frequent . Of 900 chil- dren under 10 years of age , only five were pessimists , the fact in two of the cases being traceable to fathers who were drunk 84 per cent . of their ...
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... never could get away from books - the optimist was a Micawber , al- ways expecting something good to turn up ; the pessimist a Mrs. Gummidge , a lone lorn creetur ' , with whom everythink went contrairy . Or the pessimist was a Leopardi ...
... never could get away from books - the optimist was a Micawber , al- ways expecting something good to turn up ; the pessimist a Mrs. Gummidge , a lone lorn creetur ' , with whom everythink went contrairy . Or the pessimist was a Leopardi ...
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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.