The Crown of Wild OliveGeorge Allen, 1904 - 276 páginas |
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Adalbert Albert the Bear architecture armies Ascanien Athena Austria battle battle of Warsaw beautiful Brandenburg brave build captain Carlyle character child Christian churches classes cockatrice costermonger creature death divine duty earth England English faith fighting Friedrich gentlemen Germany give Goddess Gothic Gothic architecture Greek hand hand-labour happy hear heart heaven Henry the Fowler Hohenzollern honest honour human idle iron justice keep kings knights Knights Hospitallers labour lecture live Lübeck Markgraves matter means mind nation nature ness never noble Nüremberg peace play poor pray Protestantism Prussia quarrel race religion rich soldiers soul speak spend stone Stones of Venice strength suppose sword teach tell thing thought tion Triglaph true trust truth virtue waste Wends wholly Wilhelm wisdom wise words yourselves
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Página 131 - 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 101 - 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 76 - 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.
Página 87 - 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 1 - TWENTY years ago, there was no lovelier piece of lowland scenery in South England, nor any more pathetic, in the world, by its expression of sweet human character and life, than that immediately bordering on the sources of the...
Página 185 - Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know — it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Página 132 - 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 88 - The Stones of Venice" had, from beginning to end, no other aim than to show that the Gothic architecture of Venice had arisen out of, and indicated in all its features, a state of pure national faith, and of domestic virtue; and that its Renaissance architecture had arisen out of, and in all its features indicated, a state of concealed national infidelity, and of domestic corruption.
Página 131 - 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 2 - Wandle, and including the lower moors of Addington, and the villages of Beddington and Carshalton, with all their pools and streams. No clearer or diviner waters ever sang with constant lips of the hand which