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... tell truth , and all babies are as I have been , then , truly , is the new - born race a generation of in- fant phenomena ! I have , in my note - book , much relating to infant life ; but I see the word " dreadful dull ! " in the ...
... tell truth , and all babies are as I have been , then , truly , is the new - born race a generation of in- fant phenomena ! I have , in my note - book , much relating to infant life ; but I see the word " dreadful dull ! " in the ...
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... tell me , -did you eat your potatoes ? " " No , " replied I , coolly . " Pike , " No ! " cried Dr. Pitchitin , - " Not eat any potatoes ! No ! -let me see , then , what did you have for dinner ? What did you do with them ? " " Threw ...
... tell me , -did you eat your potatoes ? " " No , " replied I , coolly . " Pike , " No ! " cried Dr. Pitchitin , - " Not eat any potatoes ! No ! -let me see , then , what did you have for dinner ? What did you do with them ? " " Threw ...
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... tell of the kind , and wild , and merry qualities that prompted each graceful gesture ? But enough .- " While a thing is being talked about it may be done , " say the wiseacres ; and , on this principle , I find that Tom Briton has ...
... tell of the kind , and wild , and merry qualities that prompted each graceful gesture ? But enough .- " While a thing is being talked about it may be done , " say the wiseacres ; and , on this principle , I find that Tom Briton has ...
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... telling you all that I have discovered . " " If I should be recognized " On that score , also , " said Tom , " be at ease : -to disguise your voice , hold a few stones in your mouth ; -there is no harm in follow- ing Demosthenes ; -and ...
... telling you all that I have discovered . " " If I should be recognized " On that score , also , " said Tom , " be at ease : -to disguise your voice , hold a few stones in your mouth ; -there is no harm in follow- ing Demosthenes ; -and ...
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... tell of their recent bravery . Lieut . - Gen . Fleury , on returning from Africa , expressed to us the lively satisfaction he had felt on seeing several foreign officers , witnesses of the brilliant valour of his young soldiers , who ...
... tell of their recent bravery . Lieut . - Gen . Fleury , on returning from Africa , expressed to us the lively satisfaction he had felt on seeing several foreign officers , witnesses of the brilliant valour of his young soldiers , who ...
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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.