Guesses at TruthMacmillan and Company, 1889 - Всего страниц: 576 |
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... perhaps with such differences as it is not displeasing to behold in the children of the same parents . And thus I commit this book to the world , with a prayer that He , to whom so much of it , if I may not say the whole , is devoted ...
... perhaps with such differences as it is not displeasing to behold in the children of the same parents . And thus I commit this book to the world , with a prayer that He , to whom so much of it , if I may not say the whole , is devoted ...
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... perhaps , greater as a reader than a preacher . Few can forget and few could resist the effect of that rich voice , with its deep mellow tones , its transparent earnestness , its perfect , xxxiv MEMOIR . "He never told us so." Nor was ...
... perhaps , greater as a reader than a preacher . Few can forget and few could resist the effect of that rich voice , with its deep mellow tones , its transparent earnestness , its perfect , xxxiv MEMOIR . "He never told us so." Nor was ...
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... perhaps , for him the saddest task that he had yet undertaken , sad at the time , bringing more sadness in its after consequences . The years that had passed since Sterling gave up the curacy of Hurstmonceux had brought with them the ...
... perhaps , for him the saddest task that he had yet undertaken , sad at the time , bringing more sadness in its after consequences . The years that had passed since Sterling gave up the curacy of Hurstmonceux had brought with them the ...
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... perhaps thought Selden , who remarks in his Table - Talk : " The Turks tell their people of a heaven where there is a sensible pleasure , but of a hell where they shall suffer they don't know what . The Christians quite invert this ...
... perhaps thought Selden , who remarks in his Table - Talk : " The Turks tell their people of a heaven where there is a sensible pleasure , but of a hell where they shall suffer they don't know what . The Christians quite invert this ...
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... through chinks that time has made , may be , perhaps is , no less true in fact , than pretty in fancy . Spirits may acquire new modes of communication on 8 GUESSES AT TRUTH . Fickleness in women of the world is the fault most ...
... through chinks that time has made , may be , perhaps is , no less true in fact , than pretty in fancy . Spirits may acquire new modes of communication on 8 GUESSES AT TRUTH . Fickleness in women of the world is the fault most ...
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Стр. 420 - Divinity of hell! When devils will their blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows...
Стр. 255 - From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire ; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to mode!
Стр. 239 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Стр. 27 - God, or melior natura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
Стр. 352 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Стр. 215 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Стр. 255 - Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes — perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven, And calculate the stars; how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, orb in orb.
Стр. 84 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Стр. 376 - ... even that of the loftiest and seemingly that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Стр. 456 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?