The Living Age, Volume 263E. Littell & Company, 1909 |
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... person at the right time ( to use the Aristotelian formula ) there might conceivably be no dearer goal than Clara or Mary Tavy or Kitty Brew- ster , and if , in the nature of things , these are matters of individual or tem- porary ...
... person at the right time ( to use the Aristotelian formula ) there might conceivably be no dearer goal than Clara or Mary Tavy or Kitty Brew- ster , and if , in the nature of things , these are matters of individual or tem- porary ...
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... person , like you or Charlie or the Chief . Emily [ quietly ] . Charlie was talking to me about it yesterday . Francis [ slightly lifting his eyebrows ] . Oh ! Sunday ! Emily [ looking away from Francis ] . He called to see me . Francis ...
... person , like you or Charlie or the Chief . Emily [ quietly ] . Charlie was talking to me about it yesterday . Francis [ slightly lifting his eyebrows ] . Oh ! Sunday ! Emily [ looking away from Francis ] . He called to see me . Francis ...
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... Person and by reali- zation of personal relation to Him . The single motive , for the honor of Christ , or as He put it for Himself , for the glory of God , is alone full of light unifying all action , solving all per- plexities ...
... Person and by reali- zation of personal relation to Him . The single motive , for the honor of Christ , or as He put it for Himself , for the glory of God , is alone full of light unifying all action , solving all per- plexities ...
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... person to catch sight of the returning wanderer was a Saxon farmer named George Pa- litzch , living at Problis , near Dresden . An amateur astronomer possessed of a keen eye and an 8 - foot telescope , he was a diligent observer of the ...
... person to catch sight of the returning wanderer was a Saxon farmer named George Pa- litzch , living at Problis , near Dresden . An amateur astronomer possessed of a keen eye and an 8 - foot telescope , he was a diligent observer of the ...
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... all the fond and earnest inquiries of the psychists , we are no nearer a true knowledge of this disembodied person- ality than we have ever been since Pythagoras . Primary origin , or crea- tion , is Clipping the Currency . 85.
... all the fond and earnest inquiries of the psychists , we are no nearer a true knowledge of this disembodied person- ality than we have ever been since Pythagoras . Primary origin , or crea- tion , is Clipping the Currency . 85.
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Page 481 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 614 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Page 163 - How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place ; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar ; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of PITT and Fox alone.
Page 229 - The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows!
Page 550 - This is the catholic faith : which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved.
Page 229 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter— the wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his sleep.
Page 162 - King James did rushing come. Scarce could they hear or see their foes Until at weapon-point they close. — They close in clouds of smoke and dust, With sword-sway and with lance's thrust; And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air: Oh!
Page 528 - Thou canst not prove thou art immortal, no Nor yet that thou art mortal — nay my son, Thou canst not prove that I, who speak with thee, Am not thyself in converse with thyself, For nothing worthy proving can be proven, Nor yet disproven...
Page 71 - Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.
Page 248 - I dare say he thinks he has done a mighty thing. He won't stay till he gets home to his seat in the country, to produce this wonderful deed: hell call up the landlord of the first inn on the road; and, after a suitable preface upon mortality and the uncertainty of life, will tell him that he should not delay making his will; and here, Sir...