English EssaysEdward Everett Hale Globe School Book Company, 1902 - 240 páginas |
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... sure was the house of Ho - ti to be in a blaze ; and Ho - ti himself , which was the more remarkable , instead of chastising his son , seemed to grow more indul- gent to him than ever . At length they were watched , the terrible mystery ...
... sure was the house of Ho - ti to be in a blaze ; and Ho - ti himself , which was the more remarkable , instead of chastising his son , seemed to grow more indul- gent to him than ever . At length they were watched , the terrible mystery ...
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... sure the wisdom of the practice . It might impart a gusto . I remember an hypothesis , argued upon by the young students , when I was at St. Omer's , 2 1 Particular . 2 Formerly a French college to which English boys sometimes went ...
... sure the wisdom of the practice . It might impart a gusto . I remember an hypothesis , argued upon by the young students , when I was at St. Omer's , 2 1 Particular . 2 Formerly a French college to which English boys sometimes went ...
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... sure , who should get at the first table , for Rochester in his maddest days could not have done the humors of the scene with more spirit than my friend . After some general expression of thanks for the honor the company had done him ...
... sure , who should get at the first table , for Rochester in his maddest days could not have done the humors of the scene with more spirit than my friend . After some general expression of thanks for the honor the company had done him ...
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... sure Pain is not far off . " But , notwithstanding this marriage was very convenient for the two parties , it did not seem to answer the intention of Jupiter in sending them among mankind . To remedy , therefore , this in- convenience ...
... sure Pain is not far off . " But , notwithstanding this marriage was very convenient for the two parties , it did not seem to answer the intention of Jupiter in sending them among mankind . To remedy , therefore , this in- convenience ...
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... sure of , and such a truth as we meet with in every object , in every occurrence , and in every thought . If we look into the characters of this tribe of infidels , we generally find they are made up of pride , spleen , and cavil . It ...
... sure of , and such a truth as we meet with in every object , in every occurrence , and in every thought . If we look into the characters of this tribe of infidels , we generally find they are made up of pride , spleen , and cavil . It ...
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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.