Holiday PapersR. Hardwicke, 1864 - 431 pages |
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... tell me , no doubt , that the harvestman is hot and weary ; that many a peasant does hard work on weak food ; that the milkmaid expresses herself in a vulgar way about early hours , and has been heard to swear at the butter when it won ...
... tell me , no doubt , that the harvestman is hot and weary ; that many a peasant does hard work on weak food ; that the milkmaid expresses herself in a vulgar way about early hours , and has been heard to swear at the butter when it won ...
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... tell you how much your chest will expand with a six weeks ' course of gymnastics , or how rapidly healthy muscle is replaced by unwholesome fatty matter if you lie late abed , or loll about all day on a sofa , when your girth grows ...
... tell you how much your chest will expand with a six weeks ' course of gymnastics , or how rapidly healthy muscle is replaced by unwholesome fatty matter if you lie late abed , or loll about all day on a sofa , when your girth grows ...
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... tell you not only where to go , but what to feel and think while you are making the prescribed excursion . Explore , to some degree at least , for yourself ; test your wits and native resources . The practice of taking a return- ticket ...
... tell you not only where to go , but what to feel and think while you are making the prescribed excursion . Explore , to some degree at least , for yourself ; test your wits and native resources . The practice of taking a return- ticket ...
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... , on reflection , there is something definite , a pros- pect of some unanswerable ultimatum in the hodman's logic . Somebody will get hoarse first , some windpipe will hold out longest , and win . Thick Skins . 19 Now , tell me honestly ,
... , on reflection , there is something definite , a pros- pect of some unanswerable ultimatum in the hodman's logic . Somebody will get hoarse first , some windpipe will hold out longest , and win . Thick Skins . 19 Now , tell me honestly ,
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Harry Jones. Thick Skins . 19 Now , tell me honestly , would you have these sturdy fellows refined , as the term is generally understood ? Mind you , I would have them sober and honest - they are brave and enduring --but would you have ...
Harry Jones. Thick Skins . 19 Now , tell me honestly , would you have these sturdy fellows refined , as the term is generally understood ? Mind you , I would have them sober and honest - they are brave and enduring --but would you have ...
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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 119 - During the last century it has spread gradually over Asiatic Russia towards the north and east, always following the progress of cultivation. It made its first appearance on the Irtisch in Tobolsk, soon after the Russians had ploughed the land. It came in 1735 up the Obi to Beresow, and four years after to Naryn, about fifteen degrees of longitude farther east. In 1710 it had been seen in the higher parts of the course of the Lena, in the...
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...