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... perhaps the deeper piety in most senses had also the most sport . No man of my day , or hardly any man can have had better parents . 6 Education is a passion in Scotland . It is the pride of every honourable peasant , if he has a son of ...
... perhaps the deeper piety in most senses had also the most sport . No man of my day , or hardly any man can have had better parents . 6 Education is a passion in Scotland . It is the pride of every honourable peasant , if he has a son of ...
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... perhaps from his intended profession . All foretold future greatness to him of one kind or another . They recognised that he was not like other men , that he was superior to other men , in character as well as intellect . ' Knowing how ...
... perhaps from his intended profession . All foretold future greatness to him of one kind or another . They recognised that he was not like other men , that he was superior to other men , in character as well as intellect . ' Knowing how ...
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... Perhaps you would like to have a shawl also . If you will tell me what colour you prefer , I will send it you with all the pleasure in the world . I expect to hear from you as soon as you can find leisure . You must be very minute in ...
... Perhaps you would like to have a shawl also . If you will tell me what colour you prefer , I will send it you with all the pleasure in the world . I expect to hear from you as soon as you can find leisure . You must be very minute in ...
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... perhaps too precipitately become engaged . There were others also - Mr . Swan , a Kirkcaldy merchant , particularly -for whom he had a grateful remembrance ; but it is clear , both from Irving's letters to him and from his own ...
... perhaps too precipitately become engaged . There were others also - Mr . Swan , a Kirkcaldy merchant , particularly -for whom he had a grateful remembrance ; but it is clear , both from Irving's letters to him and from his own ...
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... perhaps three years , a figure hanging more or less in my fancy , on the usual romantic , or latterly quite elegiac and silent terms , and to this day there is in me a good will to her , a candid and gentle pity , if needed at all . She ...
... perhaps three years , a figure hanging more or less in my fancy , on the usual romantic , or latterly quite elegiac and silent terms , and to this day there is in me a good will to her , a candid and gentle pity , if needed at all . She ...
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Page 286 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, ' And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create *, And what perceive...
Page 17 - Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Page 11 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 265 - Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.
Page 848 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 444 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 414 - For the first time for many months it seems possible to send you a few words ; merely, however, for Remembrance and Farewell. On higher matters there is nothing to say. I tread the common road into the great darkness, without any thought of fear, and with very much of hope. Certainty indeed I have none. With regard to You and Me I cannot begin to write ; having nothing for it but to keep shut the lid of those secrets with all the iron weights that are in my power. Towards me it is still more true...
Page 722 - He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
Page 42 - I will meet it and defy it.' And as I so thought, there rushed like a stream of fire over my whole soul, and I shook base fear away from me forever. I was strong; of unknown strength; a spirit; almost a god. Ever from that time the temper of my misery was changed ; not fear or whining sorrow was it, but indignation and grim fire-eyed defiance.
Page 632 - O, we poor orphans of nothing — alone on that lonely shore — Born of the brainless Nature who knew not that which she bore ! Trusting no longer that earthly flower would be heavenly fruit — Come from the brute, poor souls — no souls — and to die with the brute...