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... persons literature now diffused among the people must be some- really desirous of reading , and that in that and several thing very different from what it was a few years ago . other publications , without the slightest extraneous sup ...
... persons literature now diffused among the people must be some- really desirous of reading , and that in that and several thing very different from what it was a few years ago . other publications , without the slightest extraneous sup ...
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... persons dependent on the prosperity of the master partook of his doubts and fears . Their hearts were also heavy . A number of females depended for subsistence on the weekly wages which they received for the services of one , two , or ...
... persons dependent on the prosperity of the master partook of his doubts and fears . Their hearts were also heavy . A number of females depended for subsistence on the weekly wages which they received for the services of one , two , or ...
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... person . I have no doubt a volume might be filled with similar pithy sen- tences , all in common use among the negroes , and tend- ing to show that this class of persons possess a great deal of acuteness , and are neither deficient in ...
... person . I have no doubt a volume might be filled with similar pithy sen- tences , all in common use among the negroes , and tend- ing to show that this class of persons possess a great deal of acuteness , and are neither deficient in ...
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... persons , which is always a great inconve- nience . They will , in a vast number of cases , only be tolerated , instead of being liked , and thus lose all the benefit of that general goodwill which often acts like a favouring gale to ...
... persons , which is always a great inconve- nience . They will , in a vast number of cases , only be tolerated , instead of being liked , and thus lose all the benefit of that general goodwill which often acts like a favouring gale to ...
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... persons who are not rich , nor great employers of labour , nor in any sta- tion of peculiar influence . He shudders as he reads those startling instances of suffering or crime in which the distress and ignorance of the labouring ...
... persons who are not rich , nor great employers of labour , nor in any sta- tion of peculiar influence . He shudders as he reads those startling instances of suffering or crime in which the distress and ignorance of the labouring ...
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Página 232 - Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world...
Página 26 - If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not ? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Página 64 - With streamers afloat, and with canvass unfurled ; All gladness and glory to wandering eyes, — Yet chartered by sorrow, and freighted with sighs ? Fading and false is the aspect it wears, As the smiles we put on — just to cover our tears ; And the withering thoughts which the world cannot know, Like heart-broken exiles, lie burning below ; While the vessel drives on to that desolate shore Where the dreams of our childhood are vanished and o'er.
Página 272 - If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.
Página 184 - It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward. And it was an handbreadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies : it contained two thousand baths.
Página 26 - Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed.
Página 83 - I have often amused myself with observing their plan of policy from my window in the Temple, that looks upon a grove where they have made a colony in the midst of the city. At the commencement of spring, the rookery, which during the continuance of winter seemed to have been deserted, or only guarded by about five or six, like old soldiers in a garrison, now begins to be once more frequented; and in a short time all the bustle and hurry of business is fairly commenced.
Página 128 - As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so is it beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependent and...
Página 25 - A mere plodding boy was above all others encouraged by him. At Laleham he had once got out of patience, and spoken sharply to a pupil of this kind, when the pupil looked up in his face and said, " Why do you speak angrily, sir ?— indeed I am doing the best that I can.
Página 272 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.