Nugæ Litterariae: Or, Brief Essays on Literary, Social, and Other ThemesRoberts brothers, 1896 - 344 páginas |
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... persons , who are disgusted with what pleases the generality of men , and who demand that life shall be thrice winnowed for their use , are apt to plume themselves upon their superior refinement . No doubt there are certain sensitive ...
... persons , who are disgusted with what pleases the generality of men , and who demand that life shall be thrice winnowed for their use , are apt to plume themselves upon their superior refinement . No doubt there are certain sensitive ...
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... person whom she considered not clean . Mrs. Kirkland tells of a gentleman who would not sign his name till he had put on his gloves , lest possibly he should contaminate his fingers ; and of a lady who objected to joining in the ...
... person whom she considered not clean . Mrs. Kirkland tells of a gentleman who would not sign his name till he had put on his gloves , lest possibly he should contaminate his fingers ; and of a lady who objected to joining in the ...
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... like an egg - shell in your mas- culine grasp , is just the person before whom you find yourself crouching and trembling , without daring even " to peep " in opposition to her will . 8 NUGE LITTERARIÆ . 8" Phoebus, What a Name!"
... like an egg - shell in your mas- culine grasp , is just the person before whom you find yourself crouching and trembling , without daring even " to peep " in opposition to her will . 8 NUGE LITTERARIÆ . 8" Phoebus, What a Name!"
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... persons who now languish in obscurity would astonish the world , were they not , like Mirabeau in his youth , con- fined in the castle of IF . " If I but had an opening , " sighs many a young man in these days of overcrowded professions ...
... persons who now languish in obscurity would astonish the world , were they not , like Mirabeau in his youth , con- fined in the castle of IF . " If I but had an opening , " sighs many a young man in these days of overcrowded professions ...
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... persons avail themselves of that best and cheapest antidote to disease , as well as cure of it in many cases , the sun - cure ? The love of sunshine is one of our strongest instincts ; yet cats and dogs , which have it also , follow it ...
... persons avail themselves of that best and cheapest antidote to disease , as well as cure of it in many cases , the sun - cure ? The love of sunshine is one of our strongest instincts ; yet cats and dogs , which have it also , follow it ...
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Página 42 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 212 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Página 223 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 318 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 138 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Página 148 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Página 233 - Yea, but he hath a great charge of children ; as if it were an abatement to his riches. But the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in certain selfpleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not...
Página 49 - Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn whatever he pleases, and as much as he pleases ; he will never know anything of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his own mind. Is it then saying too much if I say that man, by thinking only, becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains ?— festtdozzi.
Página 142 - With yielding hand, That feels him still, yet to his furious course Gives way, you, now retiring, following now Across the stream, exhaust his idle rage; Till floating broad upon his breathless side, And to his fate abandon'd, to the shore You gaily drag your unresisting prize.
Página 202 - If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how and when and where.