Passages from the Life of Charles KnightG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874 - 480 páginas |
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... expression , the mere writing was comparatively easy , and printing , as was his custom , chapter by chapter as each was written , by the end of the year the volume was finished . The Old Booksellers had been a congenial theme , and he ...
... expression , the mere writing was comparatively easy , and printing , as was his custom , chapter by chapter as each was written , by the end of the year the volume was finished . The Old Booksellers had been a congenial theme , and he ...
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... expressed it in one of the last pages which he wrote with his own hand , * in the outset of life he formed the " desire to make knowledge a common possession instead of an exclusive privilege , " and to the end , through good and evil ...
... expressed it in one of the last pages which he wrote with his own hand , * in the outset of life he formed the " desire to make knowledge a common possession instead of an exclusive privilege , " and to the end , through good and evil ...
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... expressed his displeasure , or withdrew his countenance . Peter Pindar's incessant endeavours to represent the King as a garrulous simpleton were more likely to provoke the laughter of his family , than to suggest any desire to stifle ...
... expressed his displeasure , or withdrew his countenance . Peter Pindar's incessant endeavours to represent the King as a garrulous simpleton were more likely to provoke the laughter of his family , than to suggest any desire to stifle ...
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... expression quite incompatible with the ordinary notion of the self - denying misery of avarice . At the end of this long and narrow room , looking out on the North Terrace , hung a wonderful Boy and Puppies , by Murillo . In this ...
... expression quite incompatible with the ordinary notion of the self - denying misery of avarice . At the end of this long and narrow room , looking out on the North Terrace , hung a wonderful Boy and Puppies , by Murillo . In this ...
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... expression of his own . In looking upon the great political gladiators he would perceive what talent and knowledge were required to raise a man to emi- nence , but especially he would learn that honesty alone could keep the high place ...
... expression of his own . In looking upon the great political gladiators he would perceive what talent and knowledge were required to raise a man to emi- nence , but especially he would learn that honesty alone could keep the high place ...
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Página 101 - ... without actual malice, and without gross negligence, and that before the commencement of the action, or at the earliest opportunity afterwards, he inserted in such newspaper or other periodical publication...
Página 115 - Our journal of this day presents to the public the practical result of the greatest improvement connected with printing, since the discovery of the art itself. The reader of this paragraph now holds in his hand one of the many thousand impressions of The Times Newspaper, which were taken off last night by a mechanical apparatus. A system of machinery, almost organic, has been devised and arranged, which, while it relieves the human frame of its most laborious...
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Página 100 - Adonis in Loveliness, was a corpulent gentleman of fifty ! In short, that this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...
Página 13 - For when thou art angry all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Página 102 - Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany .old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.
Página 283 - THE OBJECT of the Society is strictly limited to what its title imports, namely, the imparting useful information to all classes of the community, particularly to such as are unable to avail themselves of experienced teachers, or may prefer learning by themselves.