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... turned his knife - blade into a saw by ham- mering it on his bedstead , and then sawed through a rivet of his window . It was all done in dinner hour - saw made , bar cut , knife returned . How he passed his big head , and then his ...
... turned his knife - blade into a saw by ham- mering it on his bedstead , and then sawed through a rivet of his window . It was all done in dinner hour - saw made , bar cut , knife returned . How he passed his big head , and then his ...
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... turned to the one windmill which was in view , and regarded its swinging arms till she grew giddy . On and on raced the clouds , round and round whirled the sails . Was it like the continuity of human history , never broken for ...
... turned to the one windmill which was in view , and regarded its swinging arms till she grew giddy . On and on raced the clouds , round and round whirled the sails . Was it like the continuity of human history , never broken for ...
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... turned with that letter , It was therefore , through a strange , almost I wish she had spared it to me here . " incomprehensible jumble of stiff , gnarled pot - hooks - here and there softened by late efforts into more flowing and ...
... turned with that letter , It was therefore , through a strange , almost I wish she had spared it to me here . " incomprehensible jumble of stiff , gnarled pot - hooks - here and there softened by late efforts into more flowing and ...
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... turned into Gros- venor Square , and Pleasance , sitting far back in the cab and holding her breath , saw an inclosure of large houses with grass and trees in the centre . The door of one mansion was open , and a portly porter , in red ...
... turned into Gros- venor Square , and Pleasance , sitting far back in the cab and holding her breath , saw an inclosure of large houses with grass and trees in the centre . The door of one mansion was open , and a portly porter , in red ...
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... turned out at early dawn , before the sun had as yet ap- peared above the hilltops , and while the Poor Beena ! the temptation was a sore thin blue mists were still hanging like a one . She was young , and life with love transparent ...
... turned out at early dawn , before the sun had as yet ap- peared above the hilltops , and while the Poor Beena ! the temptation was a sore thin blue mists were still hanging like a one . She was young , and life with love transparent ...
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Page 192 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR. WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every Man in arms should wish to be ? It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his childish thought...
Page 58 - THE LORD hear thee in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob defend thee. Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion.
Page 139 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Page 499 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 4 - Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me ; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny. What matter if I stand alone ? I wait with joy the coming years ; My heart shall reap where it has sown, And garner up its fruit of tears.
Page 204 - When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things...
Page 492 - The Castle of Otranto, a Story, translated by William Marshal, Gent, from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto.
Page 139 - It gave unity to my conceptions of things. I now had opinions; a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion; the inculcation and diffusion of which could be made the principal outward purpose of a life.
Page 143 - Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.
Page 143 - Memoires," and came to the passage which relates his father's death, the distressed position of the family, and the sudden inspiration by which he, then a mere boy, felt and made them feel that he would be everything to them — would supply the place of all that they had lost.