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... matters a precise and punctual person . His code of honour was the highest , and through life he maintained a curious and passionate hatred of bankrupts . He had been three years in the service of the Company when the great tragedy ...
... matters a precise and punctual person . His code of honour was the highest , and through life he maintained a curious and passionate hatred of bankrupts . He had been three years in the service of the Company when the great tragedy ...
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... matter . He " 6 thought an accountant the greatest character in the world , and himself the greatest accountant in it . " Yet John was not without his hobby . The fiddle relieved his vacant hours . He sang , h certainly , with other ...
... matter . He " 6 thought an accountant the greatest character in the world , and himself the greatest accountant in it . " Yet John was not without his hobby . The fiddle relieved his vacant hours . He sang , h certainly , with other ...
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... matter connected with the two Universities ; and has lately lit upon a MS . collection of charters , relative to C , by which he hopes to settle some disputed points - particularly that long controversy between them as to priority of ...
... matter connected with the two Universities ; and has lately lit upon a MS . collection of charters , relative to C , by which he hopes to settle some disputed points - particularly that long controversy between them as to priority of ...
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... which tempered all his conduct , determined to investigate the matter , before he proceeded to sentence . The result was , that the supposed mendicants , the receivers or purchasers of the mysterious scraps , turned 18 The Essays of Elia.
... which tempered all his conduct , determined to investigate the matter , before he proceeded to sentence . The result was , that the supposed mendicants , the receivers or purchasers of the mysterious scraps , turned 18 The Essays of Elia.
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... matter oftentimes , and almost in quantity not infrequently , vying with the originals ) -in no very clerkly hand - legible in my Daniel ; in old Burton ; in Sir Thomas Browne ; and those abstruser cogitations of the Greville , now ...
... matter oftentimes , and almost in quantity not infrequently , vying with the originals ) -in no very clerkly hand - legible in my Daniel ; in old Burton ; in Sir Thomas Browne ; and those abstruser cogitations of the Greville , now ...
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Page 301 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Page 98 - What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Page ii - WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES...
Page 142 - ... of his age commonly are, let some sparks escape into a bundle of straw, which kindling quickly, spread the conflagration over every part of their poor mansion, till it was reduced to ashes. Together with the cottage (a sorry antediluvian makeshift of a building, you may think it), what was of much more importance, a fine litter of new-farrowed pigs, no less than nine in number, perished.
Page 99 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new; Where from above the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run; And, as it works, the industrious bee Computes its time as well as we. How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers!
Page 141 - MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks
Page 99 - Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade.
Page 68 - I confess that I do feel the differences of mankind, national or individual, to an unhealthy excess. I can look with no indifferent eye upon things or persons. Whatever is, is to me a matter of taste or distaste ; or when once it becomes indifferent, it begins to be disrelishing. I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices — made up of likings and dislikings — the veriest thrall to sympathies, apathies, antipathies.
Page 36 - Tells us, the day himself s not far ; And see where, breaking from the night, He gilds the western hills with light. With him old Janus doth appear, Peeping into the future year. With such a look as seems to say The prospect is not good that way.
Page 141 - The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting, or rather broiling (which I take to be the elder brother) was accidentally discovered in the manner following. The swine-herd, Ho-ti, having gone out into the woods one morning, as his manner was, to collect...