English EssaysEdward Everett Hale Globe School Book Company, 1902 - 240 páginas |
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... nature prompting to each of them the same remedy , against the face of all the facts , and the clearest charge which judge had ever given , to the sur- prise of the whole court , townsfolk , strangers , re- porters , and all present ...
... nature prompting to each of them the same remedy , against the face of all the facts , and the clearest charge which judge had ever given , to the sur- prise of the whole court , townsfolk , strangers , re- porters , and all present ...
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... nature of my morning avoca- tions 1 had brought me into some sort of familiarity with the raw material ; and I was surprised to find how eloquent I was becoming on the state of the Indian market , when , presently , he dashed my ...
... nature of my morning avoca- tions 1 had brought me into some sort of familiarity with the raw material ; and I was surprised to find how eloquent I was becoming on the state of the Indian market , when , presently , he dashed my ...
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... natural instruc- tors ) , with his pupils . The least part of what is expected from him , is to be done in school - hours . He must insinuate knowledge at the mollia tem- pora fandi . He must seize every occasion - the 1 By Milton . 2 ...
... natural instruc- tors ) , with his pupils . The least part of what is expected from him , is to be done in school - hours . He must insinuate knowledge at the mollia tem- pora fandi . He must seize every occasion - the 1 By Milton . 2 ...
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... Nature , but must catch at it as an object of instruction . He must interpret beauty into the picturesque . He cannot relish a beggar - man , or a gypsy , for thinking of the suitable improvement . Nothing comes to him not spoiled by ...
... Nature , but must catch at it as an object of instruction . He must interpret beauty into the picturesque . He cannot relish a beggar - man , or a gypsy , for thinking of the suitable improvement . Nothing comes to him not spoiled by ...
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... Nature , sensible that she had mingled too much of bitter wood in the lot of these raw victims , caused to grow out of the earth her sassafras for a sweet lenitive ; but so it is , that no possible taste or odor to the senses of a young ...
... Nature , sensible that she had mingled too much of bitter wood in the lot of these raw victims , caused to grow out of the earth her sassafras for a sweet lenitive ; but so it is , that no possible taste or odor to the senses of a young ...
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Página 96 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature ; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him.
Página 121 - Shovel ! a very gallant man !' As we stood before Busby's tomb, the knight uttered himself again after the same manner, ' Dr. Busby, a great man ! he whipped my grandfather; a very great man!
Página 92 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit. Accordingly he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Página 97 - I see multitudes of people passing over it, said I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it; and upon further examination...
Página 2 - While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odor assailed his nostrils unlike any scent which he had before experienced.
Página 5 - Ho-ti himself, which was the more remarkable, instead of chastising his son, seemed to grow more indulgent to him than ever. At length they were watched, the terrible mystery discovered, and father and son summoned to take their trial at Pekin, then an inconsiderable assize town.
Página 80 - ... and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished, in the same promiscuous heap of matter.
Página 70 - In short, wherever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind than as one of the species...
Página 67 - ... like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next as prefatory discourses to my following writings, and shall give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work.
Página 95 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.