 | Mark Twain - 1881 - 298 páginas
...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.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 380 páginas
...ears. For marriage is like life in this — that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. 16 HOPE, they say, deserts us at no period of our existence....twenty-five; nor yet at thirty; and possibly, to be quite II frank, we are still in the thick of that Arcadian period. For as the race of man, after centuries... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 248 páginas
...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... | |
 | Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - 1899 - 354 páginas
...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.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1900 - 128 páginas
...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.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1901 - 302 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1901 - 252 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1903 - 360 páginas
...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.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1905 - 404 páginas
...ears. For marriage is like life in this — that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. 16 HOPE, they say, deserts us at no period of our existence....twenty-five; nor yet at thirty; and possibly, to be quite II frank, we are still in the thick of that Arcadian period. For as the race of man, after centuries... | |
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There is nothing so monstrous but we can believe it of ourselves. About ourselves, about our aspirations and delinquencies, we have dwelt by choice in a delicious vagueness from our boyhood up. No one will have forgotten Tom Sawyer's aspiration : ' '... 
