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... replied Mozart , " but I asked nothing about it . If one has the spirit of a composer , one writes because he cannot help it . " On another occasion , writing in reply to a friend who had asked about his way of composing music , he ...
... replied Mozart , " but I asked nothing about it . If one has the spirit of a composer , one writes because he cannot help it . " On another occasion , writing in reply to a friend who had asked about his way of composing music , he ...
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... replied , " Never mind ! I have in my portfolio thirty - six conjugations , all completed ; " and , again , when we hear of Dr. George , who shrewdly suspected that Frederick the Great , with all his victories , could not conjugate a ...
... replied , " Never mind ! I have in my portfolio thirty - six conjugations , all completed ; " and , again , when we hear of Dr. George , who shrewdly suspected that Frederick the Great , with all his victories , could not conjugate a ...
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... replied Mr. Moore , " who is the occu- pant of that room ; but I will wager a bottle of champagne with you that he is not one of my country - men . " The challenge was instantly accepted , and on inquiring of 28 NUGE LITTERARIÆ . ners ...
... replied Mr. Moore , " who is the occu- pant of that room ; but I will wager a bottle of champagne with you that he is not one of my country - men . " The challenge was instantly accepted , and on inquiring of 28 NUGE LITTERARIÆ . ners ...
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... replied to an attack by the learned Guillet by sending for and expostulating with him , assuring him of his esteem , and shortly afterward conferring upon him a good abbey . This treatment had so happy an effect upon the libeller that ...
... replied to an attack by the learned Guillet by sending for and expostulating with him , assuring him of his esteem , and shortly afterward conferring upon him a good abbey . This treatment had so happy an effect upon the libeller that ...
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... replied the old man , in his shrill , low voice , " to say how it can be done ; I only say that if he has the will to do it , it will be done . But , instead of arguing the matter , I will tell you a story . About fifty years ago there ...
... replied the old man , in his shrill , low voice , " to say how it can be done ; I only say that if he has the will to do it , it will be done . But , instead of arguing the matter , I will tell you a story . About fifty years ago there ...
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Page 42 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 212 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Page 223 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Page 318 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 138 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Page 148 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Page 233 - Yea, but he hath a great charge of children ; as if it were an abatement to his riches. But the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in certain selfpleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not...
Page 49 - Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn whatever he pleases, and as much as he pleases ; he will never know anything of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his own mind. Is it then saying too much if I say that man, by thinking only, becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains ?— festtdozzi.
Page 142 - With yielding hand, That feels him still, yet to his furious course Gives way, you, now retiring, following now Across the stream, exhaust his idle rage; Till floating broad upon his breathless side, And to his fate abandon'd, to the shore You gaily drag your unresisting prize.
Page 202 - If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how and when and where.