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Page 40
I don ' t know that , Sir , but I will never stand to be hissed , ” was the subjoinder of
young Confidence — when gathering up his features into one significant mass of
wonder , pity , and expostulatory indignation - in a lesson never to have been ...
I don ' t know that , Sir , but I will never stand to be hissed , ” was the subjoinder of
young Confidence — when gathering up his features into one significant mass of
wonder , pity , and expostulatory indignation - in a lesson never to have been ...
Page 56
He was a dark , Spanish - complexioned young man , remarkably handsome ,
with an officer - like assurance , and an insuppressible volubility of assertion . He
was , in fact , the greatest liar I had met with then , or since . He was none of your
...
He was a dark , Spanish - complexioned young man , remarkably handsome ,
with an officer - like assurance , and an insuppressible volubility of assertion . He
was , in fact , the greatest liar I had met with then , or since . He was none of your
...
Page 59
I will suppose the case of a young person of fifteen ( as I then was ) knowing
nothing of the sea , but from description . He comes to it for the first time — all that
he has been reading of it all his life , and that the most enthusiastic part of life , —
all ...
I will suppose the case of a young person of fifteen ( as I then was ) knowing
nothing of the sea , but from description . He comes to it for the first time — all that
he has been reading of it all his life , and that the most enthusiastic part of life , —
all ...
Page 80
Their proficiency was a nightly theme — the masters he had given them — the “
no - expense ” which he spared to accomplish them in a science “ so necessary
to young women . ” But then — they could not sing “ without the instrument .
Their proficiency was a nightly theme — the masters he had given them — the “
no - expense ” which he spared to accomplish them in a science “ so necessary
to young women . ” But then — they could not sing “ without the instrument .
Page 84
Enthusiasm is catching ; and even his wife , a sober native of North Britain , who
generally saw things more as they were , was not proof against the continual
collision of his credulity . Her daughters were rational and discreet young women
; in ...
Enthusiasm is catching ; and even his wife , a sober native of North Britain , who
generally saw things more as they were , was not proof against the continual
collision of his credulity . Her daughters were rational and discreet young women
; in ...
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| Title | The Last Essays of Elia |
| Author | Charles Lamb |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Dent, 1901 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 28 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 254 pages |
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