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... taste and studious habits , he was likely to acquire considerable advantages under his continued instruction . I , too , was destined to change my situation . My father thought it would improve me in my learning and courage to become ...
... taste and studious habits , he was likely to acquire considerable advantages under his continued instruction . I , too , was destined to change my situation . My father thought it would improve me in my learning and courage to become ...
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... taste under my un- cle's tuition , and the benevolence of his mind had been brought into action . If I had taste , it was yet to be developed , and I was more brave than benevolent . Charles had gained his know- ledge led on by reason ...
... taste under my un- cle's tuition , and the benevolence of his mind had been brought into action . If I had taste , it was yet to be developed , and I was more brave than benevolent . Charles had gained his know- ledge led on by reason ...
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... . The adven- tures , characters , oaths , and imprecations , in some of these pages , were all well suited to my taste , and not being often corrected , it grew with my growth , and strengthened with my strength ! I 37.
... . The adven- tures , characters , oaths , and imprecations , in some of these pages , were all well suited to my taste , and not being often corrected , it grew with my growth , and strengthened with my strength ! I 37.
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... taste was directed to the beauty of the passage with- out ever analyzing its sentiment . Thus our minds became warehouses , in which were indis . criminately deposited things both good and bad . In the same way we read the Historians of ...
... taste was directed to the beauty of the passage with- out ever analyzing its sentiment . Thus our minds became warehouses , in which were indis . criminately deposited things both good and bad . In the same way we read the Historians of ...
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... taste a leaden pill . " " With all my heart , " said my father , who had sat very calmly letting all the random shots spend themselves around him , while I smiled and laughed alternately at the bugbears which our worthy neighbours ...
... taste a leaden pill . " " With all my heart , " said my father , who had sat very calmly letting all the random shots spend themselves around him , while I smiled and laughed alternately at the bugbears which our worthy neighbours ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 7 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Página 95 - My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!
Página 82 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Página 39 - I am old enough to have seen and observed that we are all playthings of fortune, and that it depends upon something as insignificant and precarious as the tossing up of a halfpenny whether a man rises to affluence and honours, or continues to his dying day struggling with the difficulties and disgraces of life.
Página 98 - Education and instruction are the means, the one by use, the other by precept, to make our natural faculty of reason both the better and the sooner able to judge rightly between truth and error, good and evil.
Página 10 - The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
Página 65 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Página 14 - But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
Página 12 - Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God.
Página 61 - The' expanded waters gather on the plain : They float the fields, and overtop the grain; Then rushing onwards, with a sweepy sway, Bear flocks and folds and labouring hinds away.