Spare HoursHoughton, 1861 - 458 pages |
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... looks well when dry . Humor is , in a certain sense , involuntary in its origin in one man , and in its effect upon another ; it is systemic , and not local . Sydney Smith , in his delightful and valuable Sketches of Lectures on Moral ...
... looks well when dry . Humor is , in a certain sense , involuntary in its origin in one man , and in its effect upon another ; it is systemic , and not local . Sydney Smith , in his delightful and valuable Sketches of Lectures on Moral ...
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... look and eye of boundless affection and pluck , simplicity and single - heartedness , I feel what it would be for us , who call ourselves the higher animals , to be in our ways as simple , affectionate , and true , as that old mastiff ...
... look and eye of boundless affection and pluck , simplicity and single - heartedness , I feel what it would be for us , who call ourselves the higher animals , to be in our ways as simple , affectionate , and true , as that old mastiff ...
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... in a lifetime , full of suffering ___ 1 It is not easy giving this look by one word ; it was expressive o . nor being so much of her life alone . ful also of the overcoming of it : her eyebrows 28 RAB AND HIS FRIENDS .
... in a lifetime , full of suffering ___ 1 It is not easy giving this look by one word ; it was expressive o . nor being so much of her life alone . ful also of the overcoming of it : her eyebrows 28 RAB AND HIS FRIENDS .
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... look at it ? " We walked into the consulting - room , all four ; Rab grim and comic , willing to be happy and confidential if cause could be shown , willing also to be the reverse , on the same terms . Ailie sat down , undid her open ...
... look at it ? " We walked into the consulting - room , all four ; Rab grim and comic , willing to be happy and confidential if cause could be shown , willing also to be the reverse , on the same terms . Ailie sat down , undid her open ...
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... look , as of thunder asleep , but ready , neither a dog nor a man to be trifled with . --- - ―― Next day , my master , the surgeon , examined Ailie . There was no doubt it must kill her , and soon . It could be removed -it might never ...
... look , as of thunder asleep , but ready , neither a dog nor a man to be trifled with . --- - ―― Next day , my master , the surgeon , examined Ailie . There was no doubt it must kill her , and soon . It could be removed -it might never ...
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Page 210 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 195 - They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear...
Page 358 - To sit the midst of Trinal Unity, He laid aside ; and here with us to be, Forsook the courts of everlasting day, And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay.
Page 210 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 349 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 283 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Page 248 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 285 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice 'believe no more' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd 'I have felt.
Page 203 - But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own...
Page 203 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, "Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.