An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My EducationGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 537 Seiten |
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... appeared , however medio- cre their general tone , in which something worthy of being attended to has not actually been said . And yet , though I have read not a few volumes on the subject , and have dipped into a great many more , I ...
... appeared , however medio- cre their general tone , in which something worthy of being attended to has not actually been said . And yet , though I have read not a few volumes on the subject , and have dipped into a great many more , I ...
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... appearance in the churchyard . The poor maniac . - Origin of the soul . - Traditionary stories.— Highland character . - The maniac's quarrel with her husband . - Something pe- culiarly unwholesome in the society of a strong - minded ...
... appearance in the churchyard . The poor maniac . - Origin of the soul . - Traditionary stories.— Highland character . - The maniac's quarrel with her husband . - Something pe- culiarly unwholesome in the society of a strong - minded ...
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... districts due to a mixture of races . - Discrepancy in the appearance of the sexes on the west coast of Scotland . - Gaelic Thinking in Scripture Eng- lish ...... 235 CHAPTER XIII . 1 PAGE A terra incognita . - X CONTENTS .
... districts due to a mixture of races . - Discrepancy in the appearance of the sexes on the west coast of Scotland . - Gaelic Thinking in Scripture Eng- lish ...... 235 CHAPTER XIII . 1 PAGE A terra incognita . - X CONTENTS .
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... appeared , and was never more heard of . The other uncle , a remarkably handsome and powerful man , -or , to borrow the homely but not inexpressive language in which I have heard him described , " as pretty a fellow as ever stepped in ...
... appeared , and was never more heard of . The other uncle , a remarkably handsome and powerful man , -or , to borrow the homely but not inexpressive language in which I have heard him described , " as pretty a fellow as ever stepped in ...
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... appeared , " he continued to retain his hold of the helm for twelve hours after every other man aboard was utterly prostrated and down , and succeeded , in consequence , in weathering the storm for them all . And after his death , a ...
... appeared , " he continued to retain his hold of the helm for twelve hours after every other man aboard was utterly prostrated and down , and succeeded , in consequence , in weathering the storm for them all . And after his death , a ...
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Seite 344 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Seite 210 - Alternate triumphed in his breast; His bliss and woe — a smile, a tear; Oblivion hides the rest. The bounding pulse, the languid limb, The changing spirit's rise and fall; We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all.
Seite i - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Seite 395 - We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and ra'gs and paltry blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man.
Seite 165 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Seite 327 - I were ever so little out of the room, and all ascribed to the chapel ghost, which they said ever haunted those not regularly admitted, that, notwithstanding the master's protection, I found myself obliged to comply and pay the money, convinced of the folly of being on ill terms with those one is to live with continually.
Seite 398 - See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn.
Seite 220 - I replied ; ;' I don't think we'll need the other one before Saturday night." A roar of laughter from every corner of the barrack precluded reply ; and in the laughter, after an embarrassed pause, the poor man had the good sense to join. And during the rest of the season I baked as often and as much as I pleased. It is, I believe, Goldsmith who remarks, that " wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed, than from its native poignancy...
Seite 24 - ... mother, telling what I ha'd seen ; and the house-girl whom she next sent to shut the door, apparently affected by my terror, also returned frightened, and said that she too had seen the woman's hand ; which, however, did not seem to be the case. And finally, my mother going to the door, saw nothing, though she appeared much impressed by the extremeness of my terror and the minuteness of my description. I communicate the story, as it lies fixed in my memory, without attempting to explain it. The...
Seite 37 - At Wallace' name, what Scottish blood But boils up in a spring-tide flood ! Oft have our fearless fathers strode By Wallace' side, Still pressing onward, red-wat shod, Or glorious died.