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... Dick the Scholar , " cried Captain Westbury , laughing and he called to a trooper out of the window “ Ho , Dick , come in here and construe . ” A thick set soldier , with a square good - humored face , came in at the summons , saluting ...
... Dick the Scholar , " cried Captain Westbury , laughing and he called to a trooper out of the window “ Ho , Dick , come in here and construe . ” A thick set soldier , with a square good - humored face , came in at the summons , saluting ...
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... Dick himself , " cried Captain Westbury . " I said I was not ignorant of misfortune myself , and had learned to succor the miserable , and that's not your trade , Mr. Sheepskin , " said the trooper . " You had better leave Dick the ...
... Dick himself , " cried Captain Westbury . " I said I was not ignorant of misfortune myself , and had learned to succor the miserable , and that's not your trade , Mr. Sheepskin , " said the trooper . " You had better leave Dick the ...
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... Dick . Hearing that he had learned them from a Jesuit , in the praise of whom and whose goodness Harry was never tired of speaking , Dick , rather to the boy's surprise , who began to have an early shrewdness , like many children bred ...
... Dick . Hearing that he had learned them from a Jesuit , in the praise of whom and whose goodness Harry was never tired of speaking , Dick , rather to the boy's surprise , who began to have an early shrewdness , like many children bred ...
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... Dick added with a smile , " I had a thought of wearing the black coat ( but was ashamed of my life , you see , and took to this sorry red one ) ; I have often thought of Joe Addison - Dr . Cudworth says , A good conscience is the best ...
... Dick added with a smile , " I had a thought of wearing the black coat ( but was ashamed of my life , you see , and took to this sorry red one ) ; I have often thought of Joe Addison - Dr . Cudworth says , A good conscience is the best ...
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... Dick the Scholar in a woful state of drunkenness . He hiccupped out a sermon ; and his laughing companions bade him sing a hymn , on which Dick , swearing he would run the scoundrel through the body who insulted his religion , made for ...
... Dick the Scholar in a woful state of drunkenness . He hiccupped out a sermon ; and his laughing companions bade him sing a hymn , on which Dick , swearing he would run the scoundrel through the body who insulted his religion , made for ...
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Page 207 - Our duke was as calm at the mouth of the cannon, as at the door of a drawingroom. Perhaps he could not have been the great man he was, had he had a heart either for love or hatred, or pity or fear, or regret, or remorse. He achieved the highest deed of daring, or deepest calculation of thought, as he performed the very meanest action of which a man is capable ; told a lie, or cheated a fond woman, or robbed a poor beggar of a half-penny with a like awful serenity and equal capacity of the highest...
Page 2 - I am for having her rise up off her knees, and take a natural posture : not to be for ever performing cringes and congees like a courtchamberlain, and shuffling backwards out of doors in the presence of the sovereign. In a word, I would have History familiar rather than heroic : and think that Mr.
Page 186 - I thought, yes, like them that dream — them that dream. And then it went, - They that sow in tears shall reap in joy ; and he that goeth forth and...
Page 193 - ... inflame him ; to make him even forget ; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him ; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.
Page 208 - ... yet those of the army, who knew him best and had suffered most from him, admired him most of all: and as he rode along the lines to battle or galloped up in the nick of time to a battalion reeling from before the enemy's charge or shot, the fainting men and officers got new courage as they saw the splendid calm of his face, and felt that his will made them irresistible.
Page 207 - His qualities were pretty well known in the army, where there were parties of all politics, and of plenty of shrewdness and wit; but there existed such a perfect confidence in him, as the first captain of the world, and such a faith and admiration in his prodigious genius and fortune, that the very men whom he notoriously cheated of their pay, the chiefs whom he used and...
Page 246 - Lord's as the heaven is ; we are alike his creatures here aud yonder. I took a little flower off the hillock and kissed it, and went my way, like the bird that had just lighted on the cross by me, back into the world again. Silent receptacle of death ; tranquil depth of calm, Out of reach of tempest and trouble ! I felt as one who had been walking below the sea, and treading amidst the bones of shipwrecks.