Essays, Old and NewWilliams and Norgate, 1887 - 196 páginas |
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... course , and is that which first - rate men usually follow . If you were to meet the Astronomer - Royal in a railway carriage he would not talk about astronomy . He would probably discuss the general topics of the day , and very likely ...
... course , and is that which first - rate men usually follow . If you were to meet the Astronomer - Royal in a railway carriage he would not talk about astronomy . He would probably discuss the general topics of the day , and very likely ...
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... course be intellectual equality . The best talkers may be as superior to the listeners , as the officers in a regiment are to the privates . A good talker , however , will contrive , not exactly to conceal , but at any rate to keep back ...
... course be intellectual equality . The best talkers may be as superior to the listeners , as the officers in a regiment are to the privates . A good talker , however , will contrive , not exactly to conceal , but at any rate to keep back ...
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... course every person of good taste will avoid per- sonalities , stale jokes , too many anecdotes , mimicry , and old puns or bad new ones - those dreadful warts and pimples which disfigure the features of our noble language . A good ...
... course every person of good taste will avoid per- sonalities , stale jokes , too many anecdotes , mimicry , and old puns or bad new ones - those dreadful warts and pimples which disfigure the features of our noble language . A good ...
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... course there are persons to whom talk for the sake of talking is intolerable , just as taking up a book for the sake of reading something is unendurable to a literary man . Thus , a very bookish man who seldom went into society was ...
... course there are persons to whom talk for the sake of talking is intolerable , just as taking up a book for the sake of reading something is unendurable to a literary man . Thus , a very bookish man who seldom went into society was ...
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... course of action there can , I think , be no doubt . Why it is not more frequently adopted is because mediocrity and indolence satisfy people with them- selves as they are , and make them desirous rather of being amused than instructed ...
... course of action there can , I think , be no doubt . Why it is not more frequently adopted is because mediocrity and indolence satisfy people with them- selves as they are , and make them desirous rather of being amused than instructed ...
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Página 189 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Página 189 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need ; and they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people.
Página 184 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Página 83 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
Página 63 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 184 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Página 132 - There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Página 178 - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Página 172 - These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Página 154 - Why look you there ! look, how it steals away ! My father, in his habit as he lived! Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal ! [Exit Qhosl.