An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My EducationGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 537 páginas |
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... length , however , the enemy drifted to leeward to refit ; and when set to repair the gashed and severed rig- ging , such was his state of exhaustion , in consequence of the previous overstrain on every nerve and muscle , that he had ...
... length , however , the enemy drifted to leeward to refit ; and when set to repair the gashed and severed rig- ging , such was his state of exhaustion , in consequence of the previous overstrain on every nerve and muscle , that he had ...
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... length relieved by a Spanish vessel , and treated with such kindness , that the subject of my narrative used ever after to speak well of the Spaniards , as a generous people , destined ultimately to rise . He was at one time so reduced ...
... length relieved by a Spanish vessel , and treated with such kindness , that the subject of my narrative used ever after to speak well of the Spaniards , as a generous people , destined ultimately to rise . He was at one time so reduced ...
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... length , after not a few repetitions of the process , she floated free . Of course , on a harder bottom the experiment would not have availed ; but so struck was the commander by its efficacy and originality , and by the extent of the ...
... length , after not a few repetitions of the process , she floated free . Of course , on a harder bottom the experiment would not have availed ; but so struck was the commander by its efficacy and originality , and by the extent of the ...
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... length , deeply laden , he had threaded his way round Cape Wrath , and through the Pentland and across the Moray Friths , when a severe gale compelled him to seek shelter in the har- bor of Peterhead . From that port , on the 9th of ...
... length , deeply laden , he had threaded his way round Cape Wrath , and through the Pentland and across the Moray Friths , when a severe gale compelled him to seek shelter in the har- bor of Peterhead . From that port , on the 9th of ...
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... length , as not only curious in themselves , but as form- ing a first chapter in the story of my education . And the fol- lowing stanzas , written at a time when , in opening manhood , I was sowing my wild oats in verse , may at least ...
... length , as not only curious in themselves , but as form- ing a first chapter in the story of my education . And the fol- lowing stanzas , written at a time when , in opening manhood , I was sowing my wild oats in verse , may at least ...
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Página 344 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 210 - Alternate triumphed in his breast; His bliss and woe — a smile, a tear; Oblivion hides the rest. The bounding pulse, the languid limb, The changing spirit's rise and fall; We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all.
Página i - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 395 - We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and ra'gs and paltry blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man.
Página 165 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Página 327 - I were ever so little out of the room, and all ascribed to the chapel ghost, which they said ever haunted those not regularly admitted, that, notwithstanding the master's protection, I found myself obliged to comply and pay the money, convinced of the folly of being on ill terms with those one is to live with continually.
Página 398 - See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight, So abject, mean and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil ; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn.
Página 220 - I replied ; ;' I don't think we'll need the other one before Saturday night." A roar of laughter from every corner of the barrack precluded reply ; and in the laughter, after an embarrassed pause, the poor man had the good sense to join. And during the rest of the season I baked as often and as much as I pleased. It is, I believe, Goldsmith who remarks, that " wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed, than from its native poignancy...
Página 24 - ... mother, telling what I ha'd seen ; and the house-girl whom she next sent to shut the door, apparently affected by my terror, also returned frightened, and said that she too had seen the woman's hand ; which, however, did not seem to be the case. And finally, my mother going to the door, saw nothing, though she appeared much impressed by the extremeness of my terror and the minuteness of my description. I communicate the story, as it lies fixed in my memory, without attempting to explain it. The...
Página 37 - At Wallace' name, what Scottish blood But boils up in a spring-tide flood ! Oft have our fearless fathers strode By Wallace' side, Still pressing onward, red-wat shod, Or glorious died.