Nugæ Litterariae: Or, Brief Essays on Literary, Social, and Other ThemesRoberts brothers, 1896 - 344 páginas |
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... speaking of certain Israelitish women , says that " they could not set the sole of their foot to the ground for delicateness and tenderness , " which is certainly not meant for a compli- ment . It is hard to see a true refinement in a ...
... speaking of certain Israelitish women , says that " they could not set the sole of their foot to the ground for delicateness and tenderness , " which is certainly not meant for a compli- ment . It is hard to see a true refinement in a ...
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... Speaking of the refinement of the poet Rogers's taste , he says : " If you enter his house , his drawing - room , his library , you of yourself say , ' This is not the dwelling of a common mind . ' There is not a gem , a coin , a book ...
... Speaking of the refinement of the poet Rogers's taste , he says : " If you enter his house , his drawing - room , his library , you of yourself say , ' This is not the dwelling of a common mind . ' There is not a gem , a coin , a book ...
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... speaking during the same brief time at several conferences on tem- perance , woman suffrage , nationalism , and physical cul- ture , to call such a being " weak " is to be guilty at once of an anachronism , a misnomer , and a libel . If ...
... speaking during the same brief time at several conferences on tem- perance , woman suffrage , nationalism , and physical cul- ture , to call such a being " weak " is to be guilty at once of an anachronism , a misnomer , and a libel . If ...
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... speaking of the Chicago Young Men's as a Writer . Library Association , I am reminded of an amusing incident , quite different from the foregoing , which may be worth narrating . One day a young man from the High School called at the ...
... speaking of the Chicago Young Men's as a Writer . Library Association , I am reminded of an amusing incident , quite different from the foregoing , which may be worth narrating . One day a young man from the High School called at the ...
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... is blunted , when the happiness ceases to satisfy , and the pleasures lose the power of pleasing . Wilberforce , in speaking of the Richmond villa of the Duke of Queensbury , whose personal property ex- 52 NUGE LITTERARIÆ .
... is blunted , when the happiness ceases to satisfy , and the pleasures lose the power of pleasing . Wilberforce , in speaking of the Richmond villa of the Duke of Queensbury , whose personal property ex- 52 NUGE LITTERARIÆ .
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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.