In a Club Corner: The Monologue of a Man who Might Have Been SociableHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 328 páginas |
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... effect of a marvel of na- In it the genius of man is glorified by the magnificence of nature . " I have never in my life , said Madame de Genlis , seen but two things which surpassed all that my imagination could picture to me ...
... effect of a marvel of na- In it the genius of man is glorified by the magnificence of nature . " I have never in my life , said Madame de Genlis , seen but two things which surpassed all that my imagination could picture to me ...
Página 77
... effect that when A Turkish Solomon was ruling on earth , the angel Gabriel was sent to him one day with a goblet filled with the water of life , and bear- ing from on high the message that , if he chose , he might drink of the water and ...
... effect that when A Turkish Solomon was ruling on earth , the angel Gabriel was sent to him one day with a goblet filled with the water of life , and bear- ing from on high the message that , if he chose , he might drink of the water and ...
Página 77
... effect that when A Turkish Solomon was ruling on earth , the angel Gabriel was sent to him one day with a goblet filled with the water of life , and bear- ing from on high the message that , if he chose , he might drink of the water and ...
... effect that when A Turkish Solomon was ruling on earth , the angel Gabriel was sent to him one day with a goblet filled with the water of life , and bear- ing from on high the message that , if he chose , he might drink of the water and ...
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... effect of magic , and make the whole world akin . Line after line - scene after scene was thus noted , till the margin of almost every page bore traces of his pencil . A friend of James T. Fields said that " reading Cym- Cymbeline ...
... effect of magic , and make the whole world akin . Line after line - scene after scene was thus noted , till the margin of almost every page bore traces of his pencil . A friend of James T. Fields said that " reading Cym- Cymbeline ...
Página 96
... effect whatever upon it , and when a blast was inserted it would always " blow out . " The drills used were highly tempered , but in a few hours at farthest the tempering was gone . He found that the extreme cold had the same effect on ...
... effect whatever upon it , and when a blast was inserted it would always " blow out . " The drills used were highly tempered , but in a few hours at farthest the tempering was gone . He found that the extreme cold had the same effect on ...
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Página 42 - 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 237 - ... 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 78 - I was silent from astonishment; was it possible this mild-looking, beardless boy, could be the veritable monster at war with all the world? — excommunicated by the Fathers of the Church, deprived of his civil rights by the fiat of a grim Lord Chancellor, discarded by every member of his family, and denounced by the rival sages of our literature as the founder of a Satanic school?
Página 223 - 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 27 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 59 - 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 120 - 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 57 - 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 24 - 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 121 - ... and save ; majestic from its mercy ; venerable from its utility ; uplifted, without pride ; firm, without obduracy ; beneficent in each preference ; lovely, though in her frown...