A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a fivepound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. The Cornhill Magazine - Page 85edited by - 1877Full view - About this book
| Baptists - 1878 - 300 pages
...he had looked pleased before, he had now to look both pleased and mystified. For my part, I j ustify this encouragement of smiling rather than tearful...five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good-will ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not... | |
| American periodicals - 1877 - 826 pages
...the street after a marble, with so jolly an air that he set everyone he passed into a good humor ; one of these persons, who had been delivered from...been lighted. We need not care whether they could pro^e the fortyseventh proposition ; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate... | |
| Diurnal - 1885 - 246 pages
...unknown even to ourselves, or, when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than...five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good-will ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. RL STEYENSON.... | |
| E.M. ABDY-WILLIAMS - 1885 - 772 pages
...suffer itself to be overlaid, and rarely or never deserts him in the hour of need." And again: — "A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. . . . We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition ; they do a better thing... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 pages
...ragged, barefoot boy ran down the street after a marble, with so jolly an air that he set every one he passed into a good humour ; one of these persons,...five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...smiling rather than tearful children ; I do not want to pay for tears anywhere but upon the stage ; but 1 am prepared to deal largely in the opposite commodity....five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of good-will ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...ragged, barefoot boy ran down the street after a marble, with so jolly an air that he set every one he passed into a good humour; one of these persons,...five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...and mystified. For my part, I justify this encouragement of smiling rather than tearful children ; 1 do not wish to pay for tears anywhere but upon the...five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill ; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted, We need not... | |
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