Holiday PapersR. Hardwicke, 1864 - 431 pages |
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... soon as you reach Switzerland , however capable you may be of that feat , don't despise a few disgracefully late breakfasts before you gird yourself for the exertions of your holiday . If you don't thus " knit up the ravelled sleeve of ...
... soon as you reach Switzerland , however capable you may be of that feat , don't despise a few disgracefully late breakfasts before you gird yourself for the exertions of your holiday . If you don't thus " knit up the ravelled sleeve of ...
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... soon , to get a good photographic view of any of our chief places . Mr. Reuter is like a spider with a great web converging over his offices at the top of Waterloo Place . There is little to choose , however , especially in the ...
... soon , to get a good photographic view of any of our chief places . Mr. Reuter is like a spider with a great web converging over his offices at the top of Waterloo Place . There is little to choose , however , especially in the ...
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... soon comes to - youth is elastic -and eats a famous supper ; but maybe years afterwards the little evil seed then sown will show itself , possibly with fatal haste . Let me then advise you , my friend , if not already well seasoned , to ...
... soon comes to - youth is elastic -and eats a famous supper ; but maybe years afterwards the little evil seed then sown will show itself , possibly with fatal haste . Let me then advise you , my friend , if not already well seasoned , to ...
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... soon follow , and I have taken up a net of this kind , which had been laid down only for one night , with as many as a dozen of these fish within it — all large . Few fish but tench are thus inquisitive . Occasionally , a strong pike ...
... soon follow , and I have taken up a net of this kind , which had been laid down only for one night , with as many as a dozen of these fish within it — all large . Few fish but tench are thus inquisitive . Occasionally , a strong pike ...
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... soon colonise the thatch of an old barn ; a couple of rabbits quickly people a warren ; but each successive generation of rooks depart , unless this is the curious part of it - unless they are shot . When the whole hatch throughout the ...
... soon colonise the thatch of an old barn ; a couple of rabbits quickly people a warren ; but each successive generation of rooks depart , unless this is the curious part of it - unless they are shot . When the whole hatch throughout the ...
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Page 257 - PEACE be to this house, and to all that dwell in it. IT When he cometh into the sick man's presence, he shall say, kneeling down, REMEMBER not, LORD, our iniquities, nor the iniquities of our forefathers ; Spare us, good LORD, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood ; and be not angry with us for ever.
Page 244 - I want is, that you should be able so far to put yourself out of the question, as to rejoice with those that rejoice, and weep with those that weep.
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Page 35 - The natural (or merely worldly-wise) man, receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God ; for they are foolishness unto him : neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." They are "hid from the wise and prudent, and revealed unto babes...