Essays, Old and NewWilliams and Norgate, 1887 - 196 páginas |
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... discussion . The plan of reading an Es and afterwards discussing it , has proved in the Auth experience , during many years , to be a most attrac mode of passing an evening . In the hope of encourag so useful a practice these Essays are ...
... discussion . The plan of reading an Es and afterwards discussing it , has proved in the Auth experience , during many years , to be a most attrac mode of passing an evening . In the hope of encourag so useful a practice these Essays are ...
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... discuss the general topics of the day , and very likely be well up in the last best novel . James Watt never talked about steam engines , except in the way of business , but seemed to be up to everything that was going on in the world ...
... discuss the general topics of the day , and very likely be well up in the last best novel . James Watt never talked about steam engines , except in the way of business , but seemed to be up to everything that was going on in the world ...
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... discuss this , I would ask after the mental sanity of the mar could write a comic Macbeth , or witness it without a sh at the profanity . Hence I say that the habitual read the so - called comic literature ( which to a man of taste the ...
... discuss this , I would ask after the mental sanity of the mar could write a comic Macbeth , or witness it without a sh at the profanity . Hence I say that the habitual read the so - called comic literature ( which to a man of taste the ...
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... discussion , or serves to point what the last speaker said , and pave the way for the next . And not only the speakers , but the listeners show great want of tact in a cold , passive indifference to the subject on hand . A good listener ...
... discussion , or serves to point what the last speaker said , and pave the way for the next . And not only the speakers , but the listeners show great want of tact in a cold , passive indifference to the subject on hand . A good listener ...
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... discuss how far it is desirable to cultivate tact . no doubt agree that if tact can be exercised without any sacrifice of truth or self - respect , it may be occasionally admitted as a useful auxiliary in the regulation of our conduct ...
... discuss how far it is desirable to cultivate tact . no doubt agree that if tact can be exercised without any sacrifice of truth or self - respect , it may be occasionally admitted as a useful auxiliary in the regulation of our conduct ...
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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.