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... scarcely surprising , ' for ' tis their nature to , ' as Dr. Watts observes . It is no more than any clever man can do , by making five speeches on an important subject at the dead season of the year . But beyond this he seems ...
... scarcely surprising , ' for ' tis their nature to , ' as Dr. Watts observes . It is no more than any clever man can do , by making five speeches on an important subject at the dead season of the year . But beyond this he seems ...
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... scarcely an exception , be very far from making a discreditable figure in the world , if only some- body would give them an outfit of principles . But there's the rub . It is not so much the lack of men as the lack of principles that is ...
... scarcely an exception , be very far from making a discreditable figure in the world , if only some- body would give them an outfit of principles . But there's the rub . It is not so much the lack of men as the lack of principles that is ...
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... scarcely an Irish bull . It is as if the Avvocato del Diavolo should one day astonish the Court of Cardinals by getting up and proposing a saint of his own . For themselves , a more suicidal policy could scarcely have been conceived ...
... scarcely an Irish bull . It is as if the Avvocato del Diavolo should one day astonish the Court of Cardinals by getting up and proposing a saint of his own . For themselves , a more suicidal policy could scarcely have been conceived ...
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... scarcely ever fairly blazes up , unless a rate or a grant is in question . Now on the levy and appli- cation of taxes , it is clear that the owners of property , who pay most taxes , have most right to be represented . Indeed , if the ...
... scarcely ever fairly blazes up , unless a rate or a grant is in question . Now on the levy and appli- cation of taxes , it is clear that the owners of property , who pay most taxes , have most right to be represented . Indeed , if the ...
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... scarcely need to be supported by references , has followed a linguistic ignis fatuus into more than one ethnolo- gical quagmire . Mr. Gladstone , accepting the low and high German nations as types of the two great divisions of the Indo ...
... scarcely need to be supported by references , has followed a linguistic ignis fatuus into more than one ethnolo- gical quagmire . Mr. Gladstone , accepting the low and high German nations as types of the two great divisions of the Indo ...
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Página 172 - Arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.
Página 190 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock; Butter of kine and milk of sheep, With fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, And goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; And thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
Página 600 - ... them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Página 254 - His eyes were remarkably bright and penetrating, very dark and lively : his voice was not strong, but his tones were extremely pleasant, and, if I may so say, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait ; he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy, which fashion had then made almost natural ; chapeau bras between his hands, as if he wished to compress it, or under his arm ; knees bent, and feet on tiptoe, as if afraid of a wet floor.
Página 247 - ... at Pratolino ! I shudder when I see them brandish their knives in act to carve, and look on them as savages that devour one another. I should not stare at all more than I do, if yonder Alderman at the lower end of the table was to stick his fork into his neighbour's jolly cheek, and cut a brave slice of brown and fat.
Página 247 - tis growing old ; but I literally seem to have murdered a man whose name was Ennui, for his ghost is ever before me. They say there is no English word for ennui; I think you may translate it most literally by what is called "entertaining people...
Página 62 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day ; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the LORD shall be unto thoe an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Página 69 - To pass from the study of Homer to the ordinary business of the world, is to step out of a palace of enchantment into the cold gray light of a polar day. But the spells in which this sorcerer deals have no affinity with that drug from Egypt, which drowns the spirit in effeminate indifference : rather they are like the...
Página 45 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen ; yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are : that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Página 108 - Qui festinat ad divitias, non erit insons : [He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.] The poets feign, that when Plutus (which is Riches) is sent from Jupiter, he limps and goes slowly ; but when he is sent from Pluto, he runs and is swift of foot. Meaning that riches gotten by good means and just...