Then and NowHutchinson, 1901 - 333 páginas |
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... remember and to avert this miserable distress , not only by a thoughtful caution as to the words which they speak in the hearing of their children , but by forbidding their servants to tell them these idle tales . Keble has said that ...
... remember and to avert this miserable distress , not only by a thoughtful caution as to the words which they speak in the hearing of their children , but by forbidding their servants to tell them these idle tales . Keble has said that ...
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... remembering our sorrows , have we ever felt so acutely the misery of grief , the anguish of a great despair , since , after some foolish disobedience , some imaginary neglect or slight , we shed those bitter tears , and sobbed our heart ...
... remembering our sorrows , have we ever felt so acutely the misery of grief , the anguish of a great despair , since , after some foolish disobedience , some imaginary neglect or slight , we shed those bitter tears , and sobbed our heart ...
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... remember a remarkable exit . At a tenants ' ball given at a great country house to celebrate the coming of age of the heir , a small lady of middle age and respectable appearance , very simply and neatly attired in mourning Babies and ...
... remember a remarkable exit . At a tenants ' ball given at a great country house to celebrate the coming of age of the heir , a small lady of middle age and respectable appearance , very simply and neatly attired in mourning Babies and ...
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... remembering always that prevention is better than cure , and that it is better and easier to keep the young from wickedness than to get them out of it , better to keep them from falling than to raise them when they are down . Every ...
... remembering always that prevention is better than cure , and that it is better and easier to keep the young from wickedness than to get them out of it , better to keep them from falling than to raise them when they are down . Every ...
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... remember the time when no man engaged in buying and selling , much less in manual labour , was regarded as a gentleman , and when they only assumed the title of " esquire , " whose coats of arms were to be found in the Heralds ' Office ...
... remember the time when no man engaged in buying and selling , much less in manual labour , was regarded as a gentleman , and when they only assumed the title of " esquire , " whose coats of arms were to be found in the Heralds ' Office ...
Términos y frases comunes
admiration apostle spoons asked attire Audi alteram partem ball beautiful Belgravia believe bishop boys Caunton Charles Dickens cheerful child Christian Church clergy congregation Cornelius Nepos cricket Dark Lady delight desire dinner drink drunkenness duty England excellent father Florence Nightingale football Fuller Pilch garden gentleman George Stephenson give golf happy hear heard hearers heart honour horse hospitals hounds ignorance Joe Guy John Leech knew lady laity living London Lord master master of hounds mind neighbours never noble nurses parish peril persons played poor preach preacher present Queen regarded remember seemed seen sermons servants sorrow speak spirit squire suggested sweet sympathy teetotal tell temperance things thou thought told village voice women words worship young Zachary Macaulay
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Página 56 - I have taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked anything of me for himself, though he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or other of my tenants, his parishioners. There has not been a lawsuit in the parish since he has lived among them; if any dispute arises they apply themselves to him for the decision; if they do- not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once, or twice at most, they appeal to me.
Página 285 - For the love of God is broader Than the measures of man's mind, And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind...
Página 222 - And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
Página 113 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 79 - What years, i' faith ? Vio. About your years, my lord. Duke. Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
Página 87 - But go to ! thy love Shall chant itself its own beatitudes, After its own life-working. A child's kiss, Set on thy sighing lips, shall make thee glad: A poor man, served by thee, shall make thee rich ; An old man, helped by thee, shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
Página 61 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Página 5 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted...
Página 60 - It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner.