DigressionsMills & Boon, 1925 - 152 páginas |
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Página 57 - Newmarket, that infamous seminary of iniquity and ill manners, during the course of the races there ; or shall resort to the said races, or shall lose in any one day, at any game or bet whatsoever, the sum of 500£. ; then...
Página 82 - 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.
Página 148 - Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and quiet mind: for that I have ended my life as a true soldier ought to do, fighting for his country, queen, religion, and honour: my soul willingly departing from this body, leaving behind the lasting fame of having behaved as every valiant soldier is in his duty bound to do.
Página 12 - Mr. Dane, both here and in his ' History and Adventures of a Penny ' shows his singular gift for the lucid explanation of the varied problems of economics. He writes easily and is always in touch with fundamental principles. He goes through all the main subjects in separate chapters : The Creation of Wealth, Labour, Capital, Exchange, and Currency, Credit and its Functions, Supply and Demand, Wages and Profit, etc.
Página 57 - ... of hounds, or reside one night at Newmarket, that infamous seminary of iniquity and illmanners, during the course of the races there, or shall resort to the said races, or shall lose in any one day at any game or bet whatsoever the sum of...
Página 2 - Is good, together with his acquaintance with life and the world, endow his observations with a singular value. LETTERS TO MY GRANDSON ON THE WORLD ABOUT HIM By THE Hon. STEPHEN COLERIDGE. Third Edition. With a Frontispiece. Crown 8vo. 45. net. Dally Mall — " Extraordinarily Ingenious, accurate, and comprehensible.
Página 26 - Miserable man ! you, one of the meanest, have wantonly defaced one of the noblest specimens of the workmanship of God. Nor shall it be your excuse, that, murderer as you are, you have spoken daggers, but used none.
Página 8 - One of the most interesting books on the game that has been produced for many years, and it is written in a style that recommends it to the general interest. As for the golfer, it inspires in him the hope that at last the door to which he found no key has been opened.
Página 35 - without a quarrell. Therefore, good heart, forgive ' us boath, since his absence is against boath our wills. ' Hee is every day in the Bathe ; I pray god it maye ' doe him good. For my parte I am sure I fiend none ' in it, but since I am come here, I will try the utter' most of it, that I maye not bee reproacht att my ' returne for dooing things by halves.
Página 148 - This brave ship the Revenge, being manned only with two hundred, soldiers and mariners, whereof eighty lay sick; yet nevertheless after a fight maintained, as was said, of fifteen hours, and two ships of the enemy sunk by her side, besides many more torn and battered, and great slaughter of men, never came to be entered, but was taken by composition; the enemies themselves having in admiration the virtue of the commander, and the whole tragedy of that ship.