I have reason to believeMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1921 - 148 Seiten |
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... AGE IX . THE WATER - BABIES X. A QUESTION OF SIZE XI . OUR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT XII . AN EMINENT VICTORIAN vii 1 1 1 1 PAGE I 14 30 38 50 67 79 - 88 102 - 117 - 128 - 138 I TOWN MICE TURNED COUNTRY MICE 66 I HAD not.
... AGE IX . THE WATER - BABIES X. A QUESTION OF SIZE XI . OUR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT XII . AN EMINENT VICTORIAN vii 1 1 1 1 PAGE I 14 30 38 50 67 79 - 88 102 - 117 - 128 - 138 I TOWN MICE TURNED COUNTRY MICE 66 I HAD not.
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... question , Who shall write his life ? Many side - issues perplex them : but the de- cision falls at last on his only son . There are nearly a thousand letters . As the young man works at them , a shameful secret leaps out , hissing and ...
... question , Who shall write his life ? Many side - issues perplex them : but the de- cision falls at last on his only son . There are nearly a thousand letters . As the young man works at them , a shameful secret leaps out , hissing and ...
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... question of all . For whom are you writing ? Who are in the foreground of your mind , as you add page to page ? Probably there will be one man or woman , who knew him well , and knows you well . It will not always be the same figure ...
... question of all . For whom are you writing ? Who are in the foreground of your mind , as you add page to page ? Probably there will be one man or woman , who knew him well , and knows you well . It will not always be the same figure ...
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... question is , Are we marked down to our true worth , or below it ? Consider what has happened . Before 1914 , reduced circumstances were brought about by ill - health , bereavement , advancing age , lowered efficiency , bad investments ...
... question is , Are we marked down to our true worth , or below it ? Consider what has happened . Before 1914 , reduced circumstances were brought about by ill - health , bereavement , advancing age , lowered efficiency , bad investments ...
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... questions which are thrust on us by children : set aside the letters in newspapers- " Do animals reason ? " - the pretentious letters , about remarkable sagacity , which are like notes jotted down by some primitive man in his cave ...
... questions which are thrust on us by children : set aside the letters in newspapers- " Do animals reason ? " - the pretentious letters , about remarkable sagacity , which are like notes jotted down by some primitive man in his cave ...
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Seite 132 - And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it : yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Seite 91 - The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.
Seite 114 - You are our dear Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby." " No, you are good Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid; but you are grown quite beautiful now !" " To you," said the fairy. " But look again." " You are Mother Carey," said Tom, in a very low, solemn voice; for he had found out something which made him very happy, and yet frightened him more than all that he had ever seen. " But you are grown quite young again.
Seite 110 - ... stood still, and watched him. And he swelled himself, and puffed, and stretched himself out stiff, and at last — crack, puff, bang — he opened all down his back, and then up to the top of his head. And out of his inside came the most slender, elegant, soft creature, as soft and...
Seite 110 - Oh! come back, come back," cried Tom, "you beautiful creature. I have no one to play with, and I am so lonely here. If you will but come back I will never try to catch you.
Seite 110 - It grew strong and firm ; the most lovely colors began to show on its body, blue and yellow and black, spots and bars and rings ; out of its back rose four great wings of bright brown gauze ; and its eyes grew so large that they filled all its head, and shone like ten thousand diamonds. " Oh, you beautiful creature ! " said Tom ; and he put out his hand to catch it.
Seite 5 - I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was : man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream. Methought I was — there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, — and methought I had, — but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye | of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen...
Seite 114 - Now read my name," said she, at last. And her eyes flashed, for one moment, clear, white, blazing light: but the children could not read her name; for they were dazzled, and hid their faces in their hands. "Not yet, young things, not yet," said she, smiling; and then she turned to Ellie. "You may take him home with you now on Sundays, Ellie. He has won his spurs in the great battle, and become fit to go with you and be a man; because he has done the thing he did not like.
Seite 40 - But whatever language he knows, he knows precisely; whatever word he pronounces, he pronounces rightly; above all, he is learned in the peerage of words; knows the words of true descent and ancient blood, at a glance, from words of modern canaille; remembers all their ancestry, their intermarriages, distant relationships, and the extent to which they were admitted, and offices they held, among the national noblesse of words at any time, and in any country.