Three-cornered EssaysJ. Hogg, 1886 - 314 sider |
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... Beaconsfield . made wonderful speeches in old age ; and Sir Fitzroy Kelly and Lord Campbell have been great octogenarian judges . There are many other stock instances , such as Lord Bacon ; but these men still retained that vigour of ...
... Beaconsfield . made wonderful speeches in old age ; and Sir Fitzroy Kelly and Lord Campbell have been great octogenarian judges . There are many other stock instances , such as Lord Bacon ; but these men still retained that vigour of ...
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... Lord Beaconsfield . The truth is put in rather a one - sided way , but it is very truthful . I am reminded of a saying of one of the holiest and best men who ever lived , who once said that he had no time to think about his soul . What ...
... Lord Beaconsfield . The truth is put in rather a one - sided way , but it is very truthful . I am reminded of a saying of one of the holiest and best men who ever lived , who once said that he had no time to think about his soul . What ...
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... Lord Beaconsfield , who certainly had an Oriental and Jewish taste for the glitter and gaudiness of things , speaks of the sustained splendour of stately lives . His own life became a stately one , and he well sustained its moderate ...
... Lord Beaconsfield , who certainly had an Oriental and Jewish taste for the glitter and gaudiness of things , speaks of the sustained splendour of stately lives . His own life became a stately one , and he well sustained its moderate ...
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... Lord Beaconsfield speaks of the sustained splendour of stately lives , I think there is something still more impressive on which we denizens of the middle ages ought to dwell - I mean the sustained beauty of saintly lives . It is very ...
... Lord Beaconsfield speaks of the sustained splendour of stately lives , I think there is something still more impressive on which we denizens of the middle ages ought to dwell - I mean the sustained beauty of saintly lives . It is very ...
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... Lord Beaconsfield , in one of his earlier novels , makes his " young Duke " slip £ 300 into a widow's basket . It was a munificent action , and I have known such actions sometimes happen in real life , as well as in the pages of fiction ...
... Lord Beaconsfield , in one of his earlier novels , makes his " young Duke " slip £ 300 into a widow's basket . It was a munificent action , and I have known such actions sometimes happen in real life , as well as in the pages of fiction ...
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Side 15 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone...
Side 308 - Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual. Restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Side 95 - My soul shall be satisfied, even as it were with marrow and fatness : when my mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips. 7 Have I not remembered thee in my bed : and thought upon thee when I was waking ? 8 Because thou hast been my helper : therefore under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
Side 273 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Side 30 - sa fancy some lean to and others hate — That, when this life is ended, begins New work for the soul in another state, Where it strives and gets weary, loses and wins...
Side 109 - Thou h'ast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be over-ruled as well as to rule and sit upon the throne; and being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man...
Side 51 - His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
Side 12 - tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Side 242 - Fair goes the dancing when the sitar's tuned ; Tune us the sitar neither low nor high, And we will dance away the hearts of men. " The string o'erstretched breaks, and the music flies The string o'erslack is dumb, and music dies ; Tune us the sitar neither low nor high.