An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My EducationGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 537 páginas |
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... Side . - A midnight hour . - Gillie - Christ . - Spectral appearance in the churchyard . The poor maniac . - Origin of the soul . - Traditionary stories.- Highland character . - The maniac's quarrel with her husband . - Something pe ...
... Side . - A midnight hour . - Gillie - Christ . - Spectral appearance in the churchyard . The poor maniac . - Origin of the soul . - Traditionary stories.- Highland character . - The maniac's quarrel with her husband . - Something pe ...
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... side , and begged hard of the master to take her aboard . She was a soldier's wife , and was travelling to join her husband at Fort- George ; but she was already worn out and penniless , she said ; and now , as a snow - storm threatened ...
... side , and begged hard of the master to take her aboard . She was a soldier's wife , and was travelling to join her husband at Fort- George ; but she was already worn out and penniless , she said ; and now , as a snow - storm threatened ...
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... side , now on the other , —at one time full in the light , at another half lost in the darkness . That , I said to myself , must be the soldier's wife and her child ; but how in the name of wonder can the master allow a woman to come on ...
... side , now on the other , —at one time full in the light , at another half lost in the darkness . That , I said to myself , must be the soldier's wife and her child ; but how in the name of wonder can the master allow a woman to come on ...
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... side ; and though the master set us full before the wind , and gave instant orders to lighten every stitch of sail , -and it was but little sail we had at the time to lighten , —still the vessel did not rise , but lay un- manageable as ...
... side ; and though the master set us full before the wind , and gave instant orders to lighten every stitch of sail , -and it was but little sail we had at the time to lighten , —still the vessel did not rise , but lay un- manageable as ...
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... side . But the surf soon tore mother and child asunder , and we lost sight of them as they drifted away to the west . Master would have crossed the Frith himself this morning to relieve your mind , but being less worn out than any of us ...
... side . But the surf soon tore mother and child asunder , and we lost sight of them as they drifted away to the west . Master would have crossed the Frith himself this morning to relieve your mind , but being less worn out than any of us ...
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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 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 224 - And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
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 186 - Wi' life an' light; Or winter howls, in gusty storms, The lang, dark night! The Muse, nae poet ever fand her, Till by himsel he learn'd to wander, Adown some trottin burn's meander, An' no think lang: O sweet to stray, an' pensive ponder A heart-felt sang!
Página 433 - this palace is the seat of happiness; where pleasure succeeds to pleasure, and discontent and sorrow can have no admission. Whatever nature has provided for the delight of sense, is here spread...
Página 38 - 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.
Página 27 - I actually found out for myself that the art of reading is the art of finding stories in books; and from that moment reading became one of the most delightful of my amusements.
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 28 - That left half-told the preternatural tale, Romance of Giants, chronicle of Fiends Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-knee'd, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, With long and ghostly shanks — forms which once seen Could never be forgotten...