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... give . I am an humble inquirer in this field , wish- ing my own sensibilities were greater than they are . I am not ... gives us pleasure ; and when we have no useful end to which to apply them , it is still pleasant to us to use them ...
... give . I am an humble inquirer in this field , wish- ing my own sensibilities were greater than they are . I am not ... gives us pleasure ; and when we have no useful end to which to apply them , it is still pleasant to us to use them ...
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... give us colds , because they are graceful , put up with dark rooms for the sake of tracery in the windows , build lecture - halls or churches in which no human voice can make itself heard . But in all such matters , as soon as Use is ...
... give us colds , because they are graceful , put up with dark rooms for the sake of tracery in the windows , build lecture - halls or churches in which no human voice can make itself heard . But in all such matters , as soon as Use is ...
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to give pleasure that men make speeches , but to produce persuasion . The first and indispensable merit of a good speech , therefore , is that it produce persuasion , that is , as much persuasion as is possible in the circumstances . If ...
to give pleasure that men make speeches , but to produce persuasion . The first and indispensable merit of a good speech , therefore , is that it produce persuasion , that is , as much persuasion as is possible in the circumstances . If ...
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... Give me you plan , then . " " I will , " said Kriegsthurm . " Now you must allow that the Colonel has a very good notion of his own interests . You can't deny that , your Highness ; at least , if you did , your pocket would turn inside ...
... Give me you plan , then . " " I will , " said Kriegsthurm . " Now you must allow that the Colonel has a very good notion of his own interests . You can't deny that , your Highness ; at least , if you did , your pocket would turn inside ...
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... give what aid was necessary . He would speak to them by name , ask after their families , and commend the progress of their children at the school , at which his own children taught . The merchant had but few men , and they were con ...
... give what aid was necessary . He would speak to them by name , ask after their families , and commend the progress of their children at the school , at which his own children taught . The merchant had but few men , and they were con ...
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Page 231 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 225 - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Page 388 - There St John mingles with my friendly bowl The feast of reason and the flow of soul...
Page 207 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 450 - For a thousand years in thy sight, are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in the morning they are like grass which groweth up ; in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
Page 80 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 79 - For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires ! Let not light see my black and deep desires : The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 152 - The first line that Sir Patrick read, A loud laugh laughed he : The next line that Sir Patrick read, The tear blinded his e'e. 'O wha is this has done this deed, This ill deed done to me ; To send me out this time o' the year, To sail upon the sea?
Page 272 - ... a study of perfection. It moves by the force, not merely or primarily of the scientific passion for pure knowledge, but also of the moral and social passion for doing good.
Page 321 - Liberty" (to Sons of the Devil in overwhelming majority, as would appear) ; count of Heads the God-appointed way in this Universe, all other ways Devil-appointed; in one brief word, which includes whatever of palpable incredibility and delirious absurdity, universally believed, can be uttered or imagined on these points,