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 4630
... tell you , " he said imperatively , and I obeyed , lean- ing a little forward . He took me round the waist , lifted me quietly out of the water , and placed me upon the ice at a discreet distance from the hole in which I had been stuck ...
... tell you , " he said imperatively , and I obeyed , lean- ing a little forward . He took me round the waist , lifted me quietly out of the water , and placed me upon the ice at a discreet distance from the hole in which I had been stuck ...
Page 4632
... tell me how old you are ? 99 I followed the woman to an inner room , where she divested me of my dripping things , and attired me in a costume consist- ing of a short full brown petticoat , a blue woolen jacket , thick blue knitted ...
... tell me how old you are ? 99 I followed the woman to an inner room , where she divested me of my dripping things , and attired me in a costume consist- ing of a short full brown petticoat , a blue woolen jacket , thick blue knitted ...
Page 4635
... excuse me are not your windows opposite to ours , and open as a rule ? Can I not hear the music you practice , and shall I not believe my own ears ? " VOL . IX . 14 " I am sure your own ears do not tell JESSIE FOTHERGILL . 4635.
... excuse me are not your windows opposite to ours , and open as a rule ? Can I not hear the music you practice , and shall I not believe my own ears ? " VOL . IX . 14 " I am sure your own ears do not tell JESSIE FOTHERGILL . 4635.
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... tell you that a future prima donna lives opposite to you , " said I , feeling most in- sanely and unreasonably hurt and cut up at the idea . " Will you tell me that you are not studying for the stage ? " " I never said I was not . I ...
... tell you that a future prima donna lives opposite to you , " said I , feeling most in- sanely and unreasonably hurt and cut up at the idea . " Will you tell me that you are not studying for the stage ? " " I never said I was not . I ...
Page 4638
... tell you I have no friends except Herr von Francius , and I am not accountable to him for my actions . " " We shall soon be at your house now . " " Herr Courvoisier , have you forgiven me ? " 66 ' Forgiven you what ? ” " My rudeness to ...
... tell you I have no friends except Herr von Francius , and I am not accountable to him for my actions . " " We shall soon be at your house now . " " Herr Courvoisier , have you forgiven me ? " 66 ' Forgiven you what ? ” " My rudeness to ...
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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.