Table-talk on Books, Men, and MannersRobert Conger Pell |
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... heart . I am not speaking of wit where it is kept down by more serious qualities of mind , and thrown into the background of the picture ; but where it stands out boldly and emphatically , and is evidently the master quality in any ...
... heart . I am not speaking of wit where it is kept down by more serious qualities of mind , and thrown into the background of the picture ; but where it stands out boldly and emphatically , and is evidently the master quality in any ...
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... heart and a shining countenance . Genuine and innocent wit like this , is surely the flavour of the mind ! Man could direct his ways by plain reason , and support his life by tasteless food ; but God has given us wit , and flavour , and ...
... heart and a shining countenance . Genuine and innocent wit like this , is surely the flavour of the mind ! Man could direct his ways by plain reason , and support his life by tasteless food ; but God has given us wit , and flavour , and ...
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... heart , from the expectation of an ill - wisher , to find you his friend , makes you in his full favour in a moment , more so than if you had paid him the finest compliment . The spirits that were raised so suddenly against you , are as ...
... heart , from the expectation of an ill - wisher , to find you his friend , makes you in his full favour in a moment , more so than if you had paid him the finest compliment . The spirits that were raised so suddenly against you , are as ...
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... heart kept its even beat . — Quarterly Review . TITLES OF BOOKS . There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces of men , by which a skillful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the ...
... heart kept its even beat . — Quarterly Review . TITLES OF BOOKS . There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces of men , by which a skillful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the ...
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... heart , with the same ease that he did his violin . You wept , and you laughed , and you wondered ; and the wonderful creature who made you do all at will , never let it appear that he was more than your equal , and was quite willing ...
... heart , with the same ease that he did his violin . You wept , and you laughed , and you wondered ; and the wonderful creature who made you do all at will , never let it appear that he was more than your equal , and was quite willing ...
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Page 127 - And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep : and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Page 209 - That the remaining hundred thousand may at a year old be offered in sale to the persons of quality, and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Page 40 - ... everybody should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be : there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man, but a very impudent dog...
Page 81 - Give a man this taste and a means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. "You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. " You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
Page 91 - I am amazed at his grace's speech. The noble duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble peer who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as honourable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident...
Page 152 - Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it; or if thy heart overfloweth to lend them, lend thy books; but let it be to such a one as STC — he will return them (generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury; enriched with annotations, tripling their value.
Page 101 - With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room.
Page 210 - I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the public good of my country, by advancing our trade ; providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich. I have no children by which I can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing.
Page 136 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Page 45 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.