My Novel Or Varieties in English LifeB. Tauchnitz, 1851 |
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... wish you to put up in the fields are familiar images , that you may cut out of an oak tree not beautiful marble statues , on porphyry pedestals twenty feet high . " g - PISISTRATUS . " Miss Austin ; Mrs. Gore in her masterpiece of Mrs ...
... wish you to put up in the fields are familiar images , that you may cut out of an oak tree not beautiful marble statues , on porphyry pedestals twenty feet high . " g - PISISTRATUS . " Miss Austin ; Mrs. Gore in her masterpiece of Mrs ...
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... wish you would just put by that everlasting tent - stitch , and listen to me for a few moments , " & c . " My dear Jane me for once - I wish you would understand don't think I am angry am hurt . You must consider , " & c . no , but I ...
... wish you would just put by that everlasting tent - stitch , and listen to me for a few moments , " & c . " My dear Jane me for once - I wish you would understand don't think I am angry am hurt . You must consider , " & c . no , but I ...
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... wish of his father that Harley , as soon as he came of age , should represent the borough of Lansmere , ( which said borough was the single plague of the Earl's life . ) But this wish was never realised . Suddenly , when the young idol ...
... wish of his father that Harley , as soon as he came of age , should represent the borough of Lansmere , ( which said borough was the single plague of the Earl's life . ) But this wish was never realised . Suddenly , when the young idol ...
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... wish to be greater and handsomer and cleverer than she was . She knew herself , and her station , and thanked heaven for it . There was about her speech and manner something of that shortness and bluntness which often characterises ...
... wish to be greater and handsomer and cleverer than she was . She knew herself , and her station , and thanked heaven for it . There was about her speech and manner something of that shortness and bluntness which often characterises ...
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... anxious that his only son should also be a scholar ; that wish , " The gods dispersed in empty air . " Master Stirn was a notable dunce at the Parson's school , while Lenny Fairfield was the pride and boast 76 MY NOVEL ; OR ,
... anxious that his only son should also be a scholar ; that wish , " The gods dispersed in empty air . " Master Stirn was a notable dunce at the Parson's school , while Lenny Fairfield was the pride and boast 76 MY NOVEL ; OR ,
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Page 403 - I have been in the deep : in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren : in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 401 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a...
Page 400 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
Page 186 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.
Page 181 - When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Page 330 - He raised eyes, swimming with all his native goodness, towards the wise man, and dropped them gratefully on the face of the infant peace-maker. Then he turned away his head and fairly wept. The Parson was right: "O ye poor, have charity for the rich; O ye rich, respect the poor.
Page 400 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 189 - The things which are impossible with men are possible with God:' that is, man left to his own temptations would fail; but strengthened by God, he shall be saved. If thy riches are the tests of* thy trial, so may they also be the instruments of thy virtues. Prove by thy riches that thou art compassionate and tender, temperate and benign; and thy riches themselves may become the evidence at once of thy faith and of thy works. " We have constantly on our lips the simple precept, 'Do unto others as ye...
Page 223 - A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom ' opinion' than he should fear meeting a ghost if he cross the churchyard at dark." Now, as Lenny did very much fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark, the simile spoiled the argument, and he shook his head very mournfully.
Page 362 - There's gumption and gumptious! Gumption is knowing; but when I say that sum 'un is gumptious, I mean — though that 's more vulgar like — sum 'un who does not think small beer of hisself. You take me, sir?" "I think I do," said the parson, half smiling.