In a Club Corner: The Monologue of a Man who Might Have Been SociablePrinted at the Riverside Press, 1890 - 334 páginas |
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... stories about the political men of France : not of any great value in them- selves but his way of telling them was beyond all praise ; concise , pointed , and delicately satirical . " without Coleridge was one of those enthusiasts ...
... stories about the political men of France : not of any great value in them- selves but his way of telling them was beyond all praise ; concise , pointed , and delicately satirical . " without Coleridge was one of those enthusiasts ...
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... into a long critique upon its merits . The same story , the same translation , the same critique , were re- peated five times in that day to different tions got up visitors , without one word being altered 20 In a Club Corner.
... into a long critique upon its merits . The same story , the same translation , the same critique , were re- peated five times in that day to different tions got up visitors , without one word being altered 20 In a Club Corner.
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... story regarding that astonish- ing memory . It may be that he was not ill - pleased that you should recognize it ; but to those prodigious intellectual feats , which were so easy to him , who would grudge his tribute of homage ...
... story regarding that astonish- ing memory . It may be that he was not ill - pleased that you should recognize it ; but to those prodigious intellectual feats , which were so easy to him , who would grudge his tribute of homage ...
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... story , and took great pains to make the good folks merry by his puns ; and accordingly they did laugh most inextin- guishably ; but it was at him , not with him . of eating . " If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging ...
... story , and took great pains to make the good folks merry by his puns ; and accordingly they did laugh most inextin- guishably ; but it was at him , not with him . of eating . " If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging ...
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... story of Moore asking Rogers what he did when people who wanted his autograph requested him to sign a sen- tence . " Oh , I give them , ' Ill - gotten wealth never prospers , ' or ' Virtue is its own reward . ' " Then the more shame for ...
... story of Moore asking Rogers what he did when people who wanted his autograph requested him to sign a sen- tence . " Oh , I give them , ' Ill - gotten wealth never prospers , ' or ' Virtue is its own reward . ' " Then the more shame for ...
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Página 54 - I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Página 259 - ... swarm all around him, while contemplating the monsters in a drop of vinegar. Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month, — the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this, — or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the mean while, and had received a Rogers...
Página 245 - Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. Poverty takes away so many means of doing good, and produces so much inability to resist evil, both natural and moral, that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided.
Página 71 - I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
Página 140 - All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun;
Página 35 - I was present not long since at a party of North Britons, where a son of Burns was expected, and happened to drop a silly expression (in my South British way) that I wished it were the father instead of the son, when four of them started up at once to inform me that "that was impossible, because he was dead.
Página 306 - There he stood working at his anvil, his face all radiant with exercise and gladness, his sleeves turned up, his wig pushed off his shining forehead — the easiest, freest, happiest man in all the world.
Página 41 - What is not good for virtue, is good for knowledge. Hence his contemporaries tax him with plagiarism. But the inventor only knows how to borrow; and society is glad to forget the innumerable...
Página 237 - Small debts are like small shot ; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound : great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Página 200 - When he was told of the disaffection of one of his subjects, he merely asked, " How many thousand men can he bring into the field ? " He once saw a crowd staring at something on a wall. He rode up, and found that the object of curiosity was a scurrilous placard against himself. The placard had been posted up so high that it was not easy to read it. Frederic ordered his attendants to take it down and put it lower. " My people and I," he said, " have come to an agreement which satisfies us both.