Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and ReadingBell & Daldy, 1859 - 256 páginas |
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... scarcely to need explaining , is taken from the sallies of the fly- ing - fish into air and sunshine , perhaps oc- casionally into mist , short in duration , and uncertain in direction . I hope I may not resemble it in another point ...
... scarcely to need explaining , is taken from the sallies of the fly- ing - fish into air and sunshine , perhaps oc- casionally into mist , short in duration , and uncertain in direction . I hope I may not resemble it in another point ...
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... become wiser in almost all respects after forty , except in those love - affairs in which they are themselves concerned . THERE is scarcely a man who is not conscious of 2 LIFE AND BOOKS . "DE mortuis nil nisi bonum." ...
... become wiser in almost all respects after forty , except in those love - affairs in which they are themselves concerned . THERE is scarcely a man who is not conscious of 2 LIFE AND BOOKS . "DE mortuis nil nisi bonum." ...
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Or, Records of Thought and Reading John Frederick Boyes. THERE is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence . How strange that so few of us try ...
Or, Records of Thought and Reading John Frederick Boyes. THERE is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence . How strange that so few of us try ...
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... scarcely less difficult than the other . WHERE politeness and affability are without real benevolence , they arise , not merely from the wish to be thought polite , but from a desire to make the social atmosphere around us easy and ...
... scarcely less difficult than the other . WHERE politeness and affability are without real benevolence , they arise , not merely from the wish to be thought polite , but from a desire to make the social atmosphere around us easy and ...
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... scarcely touch a feather of a partridge . THOSE may be taken in by the false , who have never seen the true . There is a sparkle in the eye of a loving woman , when she first sees us after a long absence , which can never be ...
... scarcely touch a feather of a partridge . THOSE may be taken in by the false , who have never seen the true . There is a sparkle in the eye of a loving woman , when she first sees us after a long absence , which can never be ...
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