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Page vi
... never were , and flourished with skill in those authors they never seriously studied . " Much may be said in favor of reading books topically , with pen in hand . The range should not be limited to narrow confines . The " man of one ...
... never were , and flourished with skill in those authors they never seriously studied . " Much may be said in favor of reading books topically , with pen in hand . The range should not be limited to narrow confines . The " man of one ...
Page xiii
... Never use one that does not add to the meaning of the noun . 3. Take care that your relatives clearly and distinctly ... Never study at a window . 3. Never go to bed with cold feet . DR . BETHUNE'S RULE . Never read , much less attempt ...
... Never use one that does not add to the meaning of the noun . 3. Take care that your relatives clearly and distinctly ... Never study at a window . 3. Never go to bed with cold feet . DR . BETHUNE'S RULE . Never read , much less attempt ...
Page xvii
... never - wearying , glorious activity . No stupor of disease , no sluggishness of overwrought brain , no heavy head or fainting heart , but action , travel , growth , increasing knowledge , expanding visions of God amid the bright and ...
... never - wearying , glorious activity . No stupor of disease , no sluggishness of overwrought brain , no heavy head or fainting heart , but action , travel , growth , increasing knowledge , expanding visions of God amid the bright and ...
Page xxxvi
... Never poised : Ib . , ii , 291. - Of trade , errors regarding Hume's Wks . , iii , 348. - Of power : Ib . , 373 ... never dance after a tabor and pipe ; no , the bag - pipe could not move you : he sings several tunes , faster than you'll ...
... Never poised : Ib . , ii , 291. - Of trade , errors regarding Hume's Wks . , iii , 348. - Of power : Ib . , 373 ... never dance after a tabor and pipe ; no , the bag - pipe could not move you : he sings several tunes , faster than you'll ...
Page xlvi
... never quite wiped off the dreadful smooch it makes on the character . " Nay , that he " did not extract the dark color it bites into the spiritual nature of the unlucky child . " Wiess ' Life of Parker , II . , 342. - Concise state ...
... never quite wiped off the dreadful smooch it makes on the character . " Nay , that he " did not extract the dark color it bites into the spiritual nature of the unlucky child . " Wiess ' Life of Parker , II . , 342. - Concise state ...
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Page cxxiv - ... they are in the very wrath of love, and they will together ; clubs cannot part them.
Page cxlviii - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Page ccviii - Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
Page lxxv - A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page cclxii - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page cxxx - Then they essayed to look, but the remembrance of that last thing that the Shepherds had shown them, made their hands shake; by means of which impediment, they could not look steadily through the glass; yet they thought they saw something like the gate, and also some of the glory of the place.
Page lxxxviii - I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill ; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour ; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.
Page cxviii - Undefined in its slope of roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into a staircase, or spring into a spire, with undegraded grace and unexhausted energy...
Page xxxix - The peculiar genius — if such a, word may be permitted — which breathes through it — the mingled tenderness and majesty — the Saxon simplicity — the preternatural grandeur — unequalled, unapproached, in the attempted improvements of modern scholars — all are here, and bear the impress of the mind of one man — William Tyndal.
Page 113 - So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.