...a command against that in the Bible. So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep....

...divine honours. There is nothing so monstrous but we can believe it of ourselves. About ourselves,about our aspirations and delinquencies, we have dwelt by...twenty-five ; nor yet at thirty ; and possibly, to be quite frank, we are still in the thick of that arcadian period. For as the race of man, after centuries of...

...vagueness from our boyhood up. No one will have forgotten Tom Sawyer's aspiration: "Ah, if he coujd only die temporarily! " Or, perhaps, better still,...again be sullied with the crime of stealing." Here we recognize the thoughts of our boyhood; and our boyhood ceased — well, when? — not, I think, at...

...; and that so confidently, that we judge it needless to deserve them. I think it improbable that 1 shall ever write like Shakespeare, conduct an army...twenty-five; nor yet at thirty; and possibly, to be quite frank, we are still in the thick of that Arcadian period. For as the race of man, after centuries of...

...paths of virtue; and yet I have my by-days, hope prompting, when I am very ready to believe that 1 shall combine all these various excellences in my...twenty-five; nor yet at thirty; and possibly, to be quite frank, we are still in the thick of that Arcadian period. For as the race of man, after centuries of...

...all these various excellences in my own person, and go marching down to posterity with divine honors. There is nothing so monstrous but we can believe it...again be sullied with the crime of stealing." Here we recognize the thoughts of our boyhood; and our boyhood ceased — well, when? — not, I think, at...

...boyhood up. No one will have forgotten Tom Sawyer's aspiration : "Ah, if he could only die temporarily I" Or, perhaps, better still, the inward resolution of...twenty-five ; nor yet at thirty ; and possibly, to be quite frank, we are still in the thick of that arcadian period For as the race of man, after centuries of...

...a command against that in the Bible. So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep....

...and yet I have my by-days, hope prompting, when I am very ready to believe that I shall com34 bine all these various excellences in my own person, and...twenty ; nor perhaps, altogether at twenty-five ; nor 3S yet at thirty ; and possibly, to be quite frank, we are still in the thick of that arcadian period....

...ears. For marriage is like life in this — that it is g field of battle, and not a bed of roses. II HOPE, they say, deserts us at no period of our existence....not, I think, at twenty ; nor perhaps, altogether at twenty- five ; nor yet at thirty ; and possibly, to be quite frank, we are still in the thick of that...