The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volumen1Wm. Blackwood, 1859 |
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... half a tumblerful of scalding punch over my father's legs . " You have a heart , sir ; and I understand why your wife loves you . You seem a cold man ; but you have tears in your eyes at this moment . " " I daresay I have , " said my ...
... half a tumblerful of scalding punch over my father's legs . " You have a heart , sir ; and I understand why your wife loves you . You seem a cold man ; but you have tears in your eyes at this moment . " " I daresay I have , " said my ...
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... half - sly , half - innocent twitch of the mouth , and peculiar puzzling look , from two quiet , abstracted , indo- lently handsome eyes , at the moment he agreed with Helvetius on the propriety of sending me to school as soon as I was ...
... half - sly , half - innocent twitch of the mouth , and peculiar puzzling look , from two quiet , abstracted , indo- lently handsome eyes , at the moment he agreed with Helvetius on the propriety of sending me to school as soon as I was ...
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... half - crying . 66 My dear boy , I believe you ; but good wishes don't mend bad actions - good actions mend bad actions . ” So saying , he shut the door and went out . I cannot tell you how puzzled I was to make out what my father meant ...
... half - crying . 66 My dear boy , I believe you ; but good wishes don't mend bad actions - good actions mend bad actions . ” So saying , he shut the door and went out . I cannot tell you how puzzled I was to make out what my father meant ...
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... half per cent was the smallest possible return the shareholders could anticipate . The company began under the fairest auspices : an archbishop was caught as president , on the condition always that he should give nothing but his name ...
... half per cent was the smallest possible return the shareholders could anticipate . The company began under the fairest auspices : an archbishop was caught as president , on the condition always that he should give nothing but his name ...
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... half - a - crown , he was sure to turn it into a halfpenny . He was only unsuccessful in turning my halfpennies into halfcrowns . We took long walks together , and in the midst of his most diverting conversation my uncle was always an ...
... half - a - crown , he was sure to turn it into a halfpenny . He was only unsuccessful in turning my halfpennies into halfcrowns . We took long walks together , and in the midst of his most diverting conversation my uncle was always an ...
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Página 193 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Página 331 - He had, to a morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem or the love of his species; only the hard wish to succeed— not shine, not serve— succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit.
Página 25 - I have narrated, he gave me one far exceeding in value those usually bestowed on children, — it was a beautiful large domino-box in cut ivory, painted and gilt. This domino-box was my delight. I was never weary of playing at dominoes with Mrs. Primmins, and I slept with the box under my pillow. "Ah...
Página 331 - Caxtons.' Passion, in him, comprehended -many of the worst emotions which militate against human happiness. You could not contradict him, but you raised quick choler; you could not speak of wealth, but his cheek paled with gnawing envy. The astonishing natural advantages of this poor boy— his beauty, his readiness, the daring spirit that breathed around him like a fiery atmosphere— had raised his constitutional self-confidence into an arrogance that turned his very claims to admiration into prejudices...
Página 40 - A more lying, round-about, puzzleheaded delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood.