Holiday PapersR. Hardwicke, 1864 - 431 pages |
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... young -I mean the pleasure of revisiting child- hood's scenes , with youth enough to find most of the old faces still there , and age enough to feel as no schoolboy can the re- creating properties of a holiday . Happy the man of mid ...
... young -I mean the pleasure of revisiting child- hood's scenes , with youth enough to find most of the old faces still there , and age enough to feel as no schoolboy can the re- creating properties of a holiday . Happy the man of mid ...
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... young , every seat , shrub , nook , and view about it has a charm and value of its own . My saunter the next morning gave me pleasure enough , and as most old gardens and homes are alike , or have at least a suggestive kindly ...
... young , every seat , shrub , nook , and view about it has a charm and value of its own . My saunter the next morning gave me pleasure enough , and as most old gardens and homes are alike , or have at least a suggestive kindly ...
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... young rabbits . We had a hole like a saw- pit , boarded and covered over with wooden bars , in which we kept , or rather tried to keep , our rabbits . One day , however , the gardener caught two cats working together at the theft , the ...
... young rabbits . We had a hole like a saw- pit , boarded and covered over with wooden bars , in which we kept , or rather tried to keep , our rabbits . One day , however , the gardener caught two cats working together at the theft , the ...
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... young ones under their charge . Children are often , they think , unfairly treated by those who desire to exercise all kindness . Sometimes , however , it must be almost impos- sible for the senior to view the question in dispute , as ...
... young ones under their charge . Children are often , they think , unfairly treated by those who desire to exercise all kindness . Sometimes , however , it must be almost impos- sible for the senior to view the question in dispute , as ...
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... young beer must be set to work , and sputter if need be . What is the use , Mr. Squaretoes , of your having tried so much of life ( as you phrase it ) , if you can't distinguish between vice and utter glad- someness of heart , between ...
... young beer must be set to work , and sputter if need be . What is the use , Mr. Squaretoes , of your having tried so much of life ( as you phrase it ) , if you can't distinguish between vice and utter glad- someness of heart , between ...
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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.
Page 166 - My curtains drawn and all is snug ; Old Puss is in her elbow-chair, And Tray is sitting on the rug. Last night I had a curious dream ; Miss Susan Bates was Mistress Mogg — What d'ye think of that, my Cat ? What d'ye think of that, my Dog ? She...
Page 160 - A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be.
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...