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Page 41
... Snibs , unlike ushers in general , was elderly , and , which is still more unusual , he was fat . Now a fat usher is a monster sui generis , far rarer than a mermaid indeed , I will not be so hardy as to main- tain that he might not ...
... Snibs , unlike ushers in general , was elderly , and , which is still more unusual , he was fat . Now a fat usher is a monster sui generis , far rarer than a mermaid indeed , I will not be so hardy as to main- tain that he might not ...
Page 42
... Snibs , " said Dr. Pitchitin , " what has happened ? -let me see . " " Look here , sir , ” replied Mr. Snibs , pointing , with tragic dignity , to his shoes and their steaming contents , " look here ! I will not speak of the wickedness ...
... Snibs , " said Dr. Pitchitin , " what has happened ? -let me see . " " Look here , sir , ” replied Mr. Snibs , pointing , with tragic dignity , to his shoes and their steaming contents , " look here ! I will not speak of the wickedness ...
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... Snibs ! Mr. Snibs , my old usher , although some five or six years had passed over his head since last we parted , was not altered in the least . His face , perhaps , exhibited a trifle more fat , and a trifle less good temper ; but ...
... Snibs ! Mr. Snibs , my old usher , although some five or six years had passed over his head since last we parted , was not altered in the least . His face , perhaps , exhibited a trifle more fat , and a trifle less good temper ; but ...
Page 283
... Snibs was a bashful man , and although in his vocation a most furious lion , among men he roared as gently as any sucking dove . " Tom Briton soon put him out of doubt , for , running towards him , he grasped him warmly by the hand ...
... Snibs was a bashful man , and although in his vocation a most furious lion , among men he roared as gently as any sucking dove . " Tom Briton soon put him out of doubt , for , running towards him , he grasped him warmly by the hand ...
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... Snibs supremely miserable . — An Old Friend appears . Having proceeded thus far in the task of communicating to an expectant world , the history of a life , which to me has been replete with enjoyment , and having duly arrived at a very ...
... Snibs supremely miserable . — An Old Friend appears . Having proceeded thus far in the task of communicating to an expectant world , the history of a life , which to me has been replete with enjoyment , and having duly arrived at a very ...
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Page 476 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 488 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 206 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Page 200 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 161 - For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
Page 480 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together ; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Page 487 - What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within?" my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child. I will live then from the Devil.
Page 170 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Page 206 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be it so, since He Who now is...
Page 489 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.