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... languages and mathema- tical science are necessary to the future destination of the stu- dent , then , indeed , recourse must be had , either to the assi- duity of a private teacher , which in some cases is the most eli- gible , or to ...
... languages and mathema- tical science are necessary to the future destination of the stu- dent , then , indeed , recourse must be had , either to the assi- duity of a private teacher , which in some cases is the most eli- gible , or to ...
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... language , and easily saw through her views . Thus cir- cumstanced , I summoned all my resolution . Surrounded by my children , and supported by my attachment to them , I consulted my reason , and placed my chief dependence upon my ...
... language , and easily saw through her views . Thus cir- cumstanced , I summoned all my resolution . Surrounded by my children , and supported by my attachment to them , I consulted my reason , and placed my chief dependence upon my ...
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... language he held to Madame de Velbac . " For shame , ” said she . " Who requires of you to degrade yourself in any manner whatever ? I should detest you if I thought you could ever lose sight of what is due to a wife so es- timable as ...
... language he held to Madame de Velbac . " For shame , ” said she . " Who requires of you to degrade yourself in any manner whatever ? I should detest you if I thought you could ever lose sight of what is due to a wife so es- timable as ...
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... languages , much more full and particular than could be expected from a nautical man . He furnished also many practical obversations on what he had seen and learnt , besides permitting such of his drawings , taken by the artists , as ...
... languages , much more full and particular than could be expected from a nautical man . He furnished also many practical obversations on what he had seen and learnt , besides permitting such of his drawings , taken by the artists , as ...
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... language which those embarked in it employed , that at one of the meetings of the society , Dr. Horseley publicly and openly asserted that " Sci- ence herself had never been more signally insulted than by the elevation of a mere amateur ...
... language which those embarked in it employed , that at one of the meetings of the society , Dr. Horseley publicly and openly asserted that " Sci- ence herself had never been more signally insulted than by the elevation of a mere amateur ...
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Page 476 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Page 472 - Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried : the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Page 448 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Page 472 - The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.
Page 475 - And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves and reproach her not. And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her and leave them, that she may glean them and rebuke her not.
Page 388 - And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the Lord's anointed.
Page 52 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Page 474 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thine husband ; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 472 - Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister-in-law. 15 And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God...
Page 498 - But if fond love thy heart can gain, I never broke a vow ; Nae maiden lays her skaith to me, I never loved but you. For you alone I ride the ring, For you I wear the blue ; For you alone I strive to sing, O tell me how to woo ! Then tell me how to woo thee, Love ; O tell me how to woo thee ! For thy dear sake, nae care I'll take, Tho ne'er another trow me.