Biographic portraitures: or, Sketches of the lives and characters of a few illustrious persons1861 |
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... soon obtained the praise of taking delight in learn- ing , and of making more than ordinary progress . Before he was ten years old he even began to assist in raising the money for his school fees , by giving lessons to a neighbour's ...
... soon obtained the praise of taking delight in learn- ing , and of making more than ordinary progress . Before he was ten years old he even began to assist in raising the money for his school fees , by giving lessons to a neighbour's ...
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... soon as possible , quit his school - books , and try his hand at weaving . To this the boy evinced an inveterate repug- nance , and , in opposition to the wishes of his father , enter- tained a " longing to get into the grammar - school ...
... soon as possible , quit his school - books , and try his hand at weaving . To this the boy evinced an inveterate repug- nance , and , in opposition to the wishes of his father , enter- tained a " longing to get into the grammar - school ...
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... soon obtained the praise of taking delight in learn- ing , and of making more than ordinary progress . Before he was ten years old he even began to assist in raising the money for his school fees , by giving lessons to a neighbour's ...
... soon obtained the praise of taking delight in learn- ing , and of making more than ordinary progress . Before he was ten years old he even began to assist in raising the money for his school fees , by giving lessons to a neighbour's ...
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... soon as possible , quit his school - books , and try his hand at weaving . To this the boy evinced an inveterate repug- nance , and , in opposition to the wishes of his father , enter- tained a " longing to get into the grammar - school ...
... soon as possible , quit his school - books , and try his hand at weaving . To this the boy evinced an inveterate repug- nance , and , in opposition to the wishes of his father , enter- tained a " longing to get into the grammar - school ...
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... soon , indeed , regarded as a piece of mere conceit , and brought on him " a thousand humiliations and disquietudes . " The perverse way , too , in which the old parson treated him - the discontent of his parents , and especially of his ...
... soon , indeed , regarded as a piece of mere conceit , and brought on him " a thousand humiliations and disquietudes . " The perverse way , too , in which the old parson treated him - the discontent of his parents , and especially of his ...
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Página 93 - Tell them the men that placed him here Are scandals to the times — Are at a loss to find his guilt, And can't commit his crimes.
Página 99 - Little remains : but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Página 89 - I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and impertinence, while I am confident, had they the advantages of education equal to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves.
Página 99 - Little remains: but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself...
Página 91 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Página 77 - We state Fichte's character, as it is known and admitted by men of all parties among the Germans, when we say that so robust an intellect, a soul so calm, so lofty, massive, and immovable, has not mingled in philosophical discussion since the time of Luther.
Página 91 - COULD but our ancestors retrieve their fate, And see their offspring thus degenerate ; How we contend for birth and names unknown, And build on their past actions, not our own ; They'd cancel records, and their tombs deface, And openly disown the vile degenerate race : For fame of families is all a cheat, It's personal virtue only makes us great.
Página 91 - We can never enjoy a settled, uninterrupted union and tranquillity in this nation till the spirit of Whiggism, faction, and schism is melted down like the old money.
Página 84 - famous on various accounts, and every one of them dear to Britons who love their country, value the Protestant interest, or have an aversion to tyranny and oppression.
Página 99 - And what if the Pretender should Come ? or, some Considerations of the Advantages and real Consequences of the Pretender's possessing the Crown of Great Britain.