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... less to rise up against it and free themselves from its hateful pressure ! Man cannot achieve anything worth pos- sessing without hard labor - Nil sine magno labore vita dedit mortalibus . That is a certain truth ; but there are too ...
... less to rise up against it and free themselves from its hateful pressure ! Man cannot achieve anything worth pos- sessing without hard labor - Nil sine magno labore vita dedit mortalibus . That is a certain truth ; but there are too ...
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... less than the weekly earnings of the journeyman tailor or shoemaker by whom their clothing was made up . Oh , the miserably degrading humiliations which these persons were day by day the subjects of ! Let me give you an instance or two ...
... less than the weekly earnings of the journeyman tailor or shoemaker by whom their clothing was made up . Oh , the miserably degrading humiliations which these persons were day by day the subjects of ! Let me give you an instance or two ...
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... less dependent , than they . How many of them could have raised themselves by study ! Both the persons I have named could have done so , for they were gifted with good abilities . Indeed , Mr. Agar was a wit , could write comic dramas ...
... less dependent , than they . How many of them could have raised themselves by study ! Both the persons I have named could have done so , for they were gifted with good abilities . Indeed , Mr. Agar was a wit , could write comic dramas ...
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... less important nature . HINT III . What to Study , and How . Do not read many books , for if you do you will become master of none , and it is far better to get a thorough know- ledge of one volume than to acquire a superficial ...
... less important nature . HINT III . What to Study , and How . Do not read many books , for if you do you will become master of none , and it is far better to get a thorough know- ledge of one volume than to acquire a superficial ...
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... less and less every time . You will get fluent soon - nay , will improve so greatly , by and by , that eloquence shall flow from you - and your dumb auditory shall rejoice ; the very chairs and tables shall send forth plaudits ; the ...
... less and less every time . You will get fluent soon - nay , will improve so greatly , by and by , that eloquence shall flow from you - and your dumb auditory shall rejoice ; the very chairs and tables shall send forth plaudits ; the ...
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Page 9 - To kings that fear their subjects' treachery? O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth! And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, Is far beyond a prince's delicates, His viands sparkling in a golden cup, His body couched in a curious bed, When care, mistrust, and treason wait on him.
Page 9 - tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye ? O, no, good Kate ; neither art thou the worse For this poor furniture and mean array.
Page 8 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest, Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor, Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and...
Page 21 - Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as of bailiffs, receivers, and the like. For a man may have an estate in them, either to him and his heirs, or for life, or for a term of years, or during pleasure...
Page 8 - God ! mcthiuks it were a happy life, " To be DO better than a homely swain ;" For, of a truth, (quoting Shakspeare's description of a humble rustic — quite applicable to our own times, if, for
Page 12 - Stops on a sudden, looks npon the ground, " Then lays his finger on his temple straight; " Springs out into fast gait; then stops again, " Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts " His eye against the moon : in most strange postures