An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My EducationGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 537 páginas |
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... tion , would have been ruin , and in consequence of which he had to content himself with the old house as before , and al- most to begin the world anew . I have now reached a point in my narrative at which , from my connection with the ...
... tion , would have been ruin , and in consequence of which he had to content himself with the old house as before , and al- most to begin the world anew . I have now reached a point in my narrative at which , from my connection with the ...
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... tion of the coast . Vessel after vessel had been coming ashore during the day ; and the beach was strewed with wrecks and dead bodies ; but he had marked his townsman's sloop in the offing from mid - day till near evening , exhausting ...
... tion of the coast . Vessel after vessel had been coming ashore during the day ; and the beach was strewed with wrecks and dead bodies ; but he had marked his townsman's sloop in the offing from mid - day till near evening , exhausting ...
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... tion , as I go along , into the more modish sounds . A knowl- edge of the letters themselves I had already acquired by study- ing the sign - posts of the place , -rare works of art , that ex- cited my utmost admiration , with jugs , and ...
... tion , as I go along , into the more modish sounds . A knowl- edge of the letters themselves I had already acquired by study- ing the sign - posts of the place , -rare works of art , that ex- cited my utmost admiration , with jugs , and ...
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... tion , and left his bones under the walls of Carthagena ; but he himself pursued the peaceful occupation of a shoemaker , and in carrying on his trade , usually employed a few journeymen , and kept a few apprentices . In course of time ...
... tion , and left his bones under the walls of Carthagena ; but he himself pursued the peaceful occupation of a shoemaker , and in carrying on his trade , usually employed a few journeymen , and kept a few apprentices . In course of time ...
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... tion in its order , I used to give him back in the evening , word for word , his own rendering , which satisfied him on most oc- casions tolerably well . There were none of us much looked after ; and I soon learned to bring books of ...
... tion in its order , I used to give him back in the evening , word for word , his own rendering , which satisfied him on most oc- casions tolerably well . There were none of us much looked after ; and I soon learned to bring books of ...
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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...