International Library of Masterpieces, Literature, Art and Rare Manuscripts: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy, Poetry, the Drama, Travel, Adventure, Fiction, Volume 13Harry Thurston Peck International Bibliophile Society, 1901 - Literature |
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Page 4631
... sent the full power of his voice ringing out toward the pile of buildings to our left . With the last echo of his voice I lost consciousness entirely ; all failed and faded , and then vanished before me , until I opened my eyes again ...
... sent the full power of his voice ringing out toward the pile of buildings to our left . With the last echo of his voice I lost consciousness entirely ; all failed and faded , and then vanished before me , until I opened my eyes again ...
Page 4642
... sent to us by God as a gift and comfort in our misery . She , on the other hand , would not hear of this , and told us that she thought she had been called Undine by her parents , and that Undine she wished still to be called . Now this ...
... sent to us by God as a gift and comfort in our misery . She , on the other hand , would not hear of this , and told us that she thought she had been called Undine by her parents , and that Undine she wished still to be called . Now this ...
Page 4657
... sent things to eat to her the servant brought back word that she had called out , " Set them over thar , ' without so much as a thanky . " One message was that " she didn ' want no second - hand victuals from nobody's table . " Somebody ...
... sent things to eat to her the servant brought back word that she had called out , " Set them over thar , ' without so much as a thanky . " One message was that " she didn ' want no second - hand victuals from nobody's table . " Somebody ...
Page 4670
... sent for him , and ordered him to draw up , in a patriotic and liberal spirit , proclamations and bulletins for the fleet . After Waterloo , my father , more saddened than surprised , went into retirement , and was left un- molested ...
... sent for him , and ordered him to draw up , in a patriotic and liberal spirit , proclamations and bulletins for the fleet . After Waterloo , my father , more saddened than surprised , went into retirement , and was left un- molested ...
Page 4673
... sent me to college , but I had great difficulty in rousing myself from my torpor . 66 However , I was not altogether an idiot , and my professors taught me almost all they thought necessary ; that is , a little Greek , and much Latin ...
... sent me to college , but I had great difficulty in rousing myself from my torpor . 66 However , I was not altogether an idiot , and my professors taught me almost all they thought necessary ; that is , a little Greek , and much Latin ...
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Page 4706 - This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom; but, after all do not depend too much upon your own industry and frugality and prudence, though excellent things; for they may all be blasted, without the blessing of Heaven; and, therefore, ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered, and was afterward prosperous. " And now, to conclude, Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other...
Page 4700 - Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let us hearken to good Advice, and something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733.
Page 4702 - But with our Industry, we must likewise be steady, settled and careful, and oversee our own Affairs with our own Eyes, and not trust too much to others; for, as Poor Richard says I never saw an oft-removed Tree, Nor yet an oft-removed Family, That throve so well as those that settled be.
Page 4688 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Page 4689 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
Page 4699 - I stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times; and one of the company called to a plain, clean, old man, with white locks, "Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times?
Page 4763 - From morning suns and evening dews At first thy little being came: If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between, is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.
Page 4700 - Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is alwayt bright, as Poor Richard says. But dost thou love life? then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep ? forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 4704 - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may...
Page 4708 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, He pays, indeed, said I, too match for his whistle. If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.