Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-ZCharles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne R.S. Peale and J.A. Hill, 1897 - Anthologies |
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Page 5482
... mean as Jupiter which among Greeks is known as air . » Modern philology verifies this almost literally . These may well have seemed bold words to publish in Rome , though the refined circle about the Scipios had doubtless as little ...
... mean as Jupiter which among Greeks is known as air . » Modern philology verifies this almost literally . These may well have seemed bold words to publish in Rome , though the refined circle about the Scipios had doubtless as little ...
Page 5483
... means justified his claim to Homeric rank , in any sense . . Perhaps he never held a place at all among the great masters of creative imagination . But at least , by his vigorous manly char- acter , his wide studies , his good taste ...
... means justified his claim to Homeric rank , in any sense . . Perhaps he never held a place at all among the great masters of creative imagination . But at least , by his vigorous manly char- acter , his wide studies , his good taste ...
Page 5487
... means agreed upon your sentence . " " Thanks to you for your good - will , " said the culprit ; " but I know there is no help . I am a robber ; I have been taken in arms ; they will hang me . They may do it : but let them make haste ...
... means agreed upon your sentence . " " Thanks to you for your good - will , " said the culprit ; " but I know there is no help . I am a robber ; I have been taken in arms ; they will hang me . They may do it : but let them make haste ...
Page 5488
... means . " " It is provided in Chapter 6 of the Articles , that the prisoner shall not be wheedled into a confession , " said Zatonyi , with an expression of profound wisdom . " Gentlemen , " said Viola at length , " may God bless you ...
... means . " " It is provided in Chapter 6 of the Articles , that the prisoner shall not be wheedled into a confession , " said Zatonyi , with an expression of profound wisdom . " Gentlemen , " said Viola at length , " may God bless you ...
Page 5489
... mean by saying that you were forced to be a robber ? » " Ask his worship , the justice of the district , " said the prisoner , looking at Mr. Skinner ; " he knows what made me a robber . » And he proceeded to tell the tale of his first ...
... mean by saying that you were forced to be a robber ? » " Ask his worship , the justice of the district , " said the prisoner , looking at Mr. Skinner ; " he knows what made me a robber . » And he proceeded to tell the tale of his first ...
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Page 5766 - How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 5930 - Hatter, makes and sells hats for ready money,' with a figure of a hat subjoined ; but he thought he would submit it to his friends for their amendments. The first he showed it to thought the word ' Hatter ' tautologous, because followed by the words ' makes hats,
Page 5948 - The small progress we have made after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, — our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, — is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We, indeed, seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different...
Page 5957 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...
Page 5936 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Page 5946 - Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.' And after all, of what use is this pride of appearance for which so much is risked, so much is suffered? It cannot promote health nor ease pain ; it makes no increase of merit in the person ; it creates envy ; it hastens misfortune.
Page 5958 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 5944 - I stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What would you advise us to do ? " Father Abraham stood up and replied, " If you would...
Page 5873 - ... heart grown cauld to me When we came in by Glasgow town We were a comely sight to see ; My Love was clad in the black velvet, And I myself in cramasie. But had I wist, before I kist...
Page 5598 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like a hideous storm; and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at the last one was not able to approach it...