In a Club Corner: The Monologue of a Man who Might Have Been SociableHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 - 328 páginas |
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... thousand from it the first year . Susan . - - - " Call that a kind man ? " said an actor , speaking of an acquaintance ; " a man who is away from his family and never sends them a farthing ? Call that kindness ? " 66 unremitting ...
... thousand from it the first year . Susan . - - - " Call that a kind man ? " said an actor , speaking of an acquaintance ; " a man who is away from his family and never sends them a farthing ? Call that kindness ? " 66 unremitting ...
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... thousand cubic feet of water per second more than our Mississippi , rolling its turbid waves thou- sands of miles exactly as it pleases , - plow- ing a new channel every year , with tribu- taries twenty miles wide , and an island in its ...
... thousand cubic feet of water per second more than our Mississippi , rolling its turbid waves thou- sands of miles exactly as it pleases , - plow- ing a new channel every year , with tribu- taries twenty miles wide , and an island in its ...
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... thousand miles over the sea ! " Some years ago , a writer in Temple Bar , when in Bath , being anxious to amuse himself with verifying all the places and streets , etc. , mentioned in Per- suasion and Northanger Abbey , he turned into a ...
... thousand miles over the sea ! " Some years ago , a writer in Temple Bar , when in Bath , being anxious to amuse himself with verifying all the places and streets , etc. , mentioned in Per- suasion and Northanger Abbey , he turned into a ...
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... thousand francs ; but , in your position , you must absolutely have an occupation which will enable you to live , and free you from the insupportable weight of dependence on others . From this day forward , my child , you must look to ...
... thousand francs ; but , in your position , you must absolutely have an occupation which will enable you to live , and free you from the insupportable weight of dependence on others . From this day forward , my child , you must look to ...
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... thousand dromedaries to transport it . He ordered all useless matter weeded out , and after thirty years ' labor it was reduced to the carrying capacity of thirty camels . Still appalled by the number of volumes , he ordered it to be ...
... thousand dromedaries to transport it . He ordered all useless matter weeded out , and after thirty years ' labor it was reduced to the carrying capacity of thirty camels . Still appalled by the number of volumes , he ordered it to be ...
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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 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 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 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 69 - For which reason, as there is nothing more ridiculous than an old trifling story-teller, so there is nothing more venerable, than one who has turned his experience to the entertainment and advantage of mankind.
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 154 - Garrick, Madam, was no declaimer; there was not one of his own scene-shifters who could not have spoken To be, or not to be, better than he did ; yet he was the only actor I ever saw, whom I could call a master both in tragedy and comedy; though I liked him best in comedy. A true conception of character, and natural expression of it, were his distinguished excellencies.
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.