The Crown of Wild OliveG. Allen, 1882 - 210 páginas |
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... perhaps than I do mine . But I speak to you as representing your whole class , which efrs , I know , chiefly by thoughtlessness , but not therefore the less terribly . Wilful error is limited by the will , but what limit is there to ...
... perhaps than I do mine . But I speak to you as representing your whole class , which efrs , I know , chiefly by thoughtlessness , but not therefore the less terribly . Wilful error is limited by the will , but what limit is there to ...
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... perhaps think , ' to waste the labour of men is not to kill them . ' Is it not ? I should like to know how you could kill them more utterly , -kill them with second deaths , seventh deaths , hundredfold deaths ? It is the slightest way ...
... perhaps think , ' to waste the labour of men is not to kill them . ' Is it not ? I should like to know how you could kill them more utterly , -kill them with second deaths , seventh deaths , hundredfold deaths ? It is the slightest way ...
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... perhaps that all grown - up people know every- thing ; very certainly it is sure that it does not . And it is always asking questions , and wanting to know more . Well , that is the first character of a good and wise man at his work ...
... perhaps that all grown - up people know every- thing ; very certainly it is sure that it does not . And it is always asking questions , and wanting to know more . Well , that is the first character of a good and wise man at his work ...
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... perhaps you think I forget them . You are going to spend 30,000l . , which to you , collectively , is nothing ; the buying a new coat is , as to the cost of it , a much more important matter of consideration , to me , than building a ...
... perhaps you think I forget them . You are going to spend 30,000l . , which to you , collectively , is nothing ; the buying a new coat is , as to the cost of it , a much more important matter of consideration , to me , than building a ...
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... perhaps you answer ; ' we need rather to ask what these people and children do , than what they like . If they do right , it is no matter that they like what is wrong ; and if they do wrong , it is no matter that they like what is right ...
... perhaps you answer ; ' we need rather to ask what these people and children do , than what they like . If they do right , it is no matter that they like what is wrong ; and if they do wrong , it is no matter that they like what is right ...
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Página 87 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Página 110 - Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them: she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another build, another hammer, and the weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected; all dressed in red; and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain; and fed there till wanted.
Página 75 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Página 110 - Fire!' is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for.
Página 69 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright Neither by day nor yet by night • They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
Página 109 - What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net purport and upshot of war? To my own knowledge, for example, there dwell and toil, in the British village of Dumdrudge, usually some five hundred souls. From these, by certain 'natural enemies' of the French there are successively selected, during the French war, say thirty able-bodied men : Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them : she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained...
Página 64 - All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.
Página 58 - Then the third character of right childhood is to be Loving and Generous. Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. It loves everything near it, when it is a right kind of child — would...
Página 87 - Cross, the Milanese boar, semi-fleeced, with the town of Gennesaret proper, in the field; and the legend, "In the best market," and her corslet, of leather, folded over her heart in the shape of a purse, with thirty slits in it, for a piece of money to go in at, on each day of the month. And I doubt not but that people would come to see your exchange, and its goddess, with applause.
Página 66 - And the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things : — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.