The Caxtons: A Family PictureLippincott, 1874 |
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... , " said my mother joy- fully " Pisistratus Caxton . Thank you , my love : Pi- istratus it shall be . " " - Do you contradict me ? Do you side with Wolfe and Heyne , and that pragmatical fellow Vico ? Do you A FAMILY PICTURE . 23.
... , " said my mother joy- fully " Pisistratus Caxton . Thank you , my love : Pi- istratus it shall be . " " - Do you contradict me ? Do you side with Wolfe and Heyne , and that pragmatical fellow Vico ? Do you A FAMILY PICTURE . 23.
Side 24
A Family Picture Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. Heyne , and that pragmatical fellow Vico ? Do you mean to say that the Rhapsodists- " " No , indeed , " interrupted my mother . " My dear , you frighten me . " My father sighed , and ...
A Family Picture Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. Heyne , and that pragmatical fellow Vico ? Do you mean to say that the Rhapsodists- " " No , indeed , " interrupted my mother . " My dear , you frighten me . " My father sighed , and ...
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... fellow - creatures that he had at heart , and in this ungrateful world fellow - creatures are not to be relied upon ! On coming of age , he inherited £ 6000 from his maternal grandfather . It seemed to him then that his fellow ...
... fellow - creatures that he had at heart , and in this ungrateful world fellow - creatures are not to be relied upon ! On coming of age , he inherited £ 6000 from his maternal grandfather . It seemed to him then that his fellow ...
Side 51
... fellow - creatures . And all that remained of Jack's £ 6000 , was a fifty - fourth share in a small steam - engine , a large assortment of ready - made pantaloons , and the liabilities of the directors . Uncle Jack disappeared , and ...
... fellow - creatures . And all that remained of Jack's £ 6000 , was a fifty - fourth share in a small steam - engine , a large assortment of ready - made pantaloons , and the liabilities of the directors . Uncle Jack disappeared , and ...
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... fellow - creatures to go on there was land , there was a mine , there was coal , and there actually came shareholders and capital . Uncle Jack was so persuaded that his fortune was now to be made , and had , moreover , so great a desire ...
... fellow - creatures to go on there was land , there was a mine , there was coal , and there actually came shareholders and capital . Uncle Jack was so persuaded that his fortune was now to be made , and had , moreover , so great a desire ...
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ambition amidst answer ANTANACLASIS APOSIOPESIS asked Austin better Blanche brother brow Bullion called Captain Roland Caxton CHAPTER child cried dear door drew eyes face fancy Fanny Trevanion father fear feel fellow felt fortune gentleman hand happy head hear heard heart heaven honor hope knew Lady Ellinor laugh leave lips live London look Lord Castleton marriage mind Miss Trevanion mother nature never night once Oxton passion pause Peacock perhaps Philhellenic Pisistratus poor Primmins Puss in Boots Robert Hall round ruin scalene triangle seemed servant silence Sisty smile son's Squills stood sure talk tell thee thing thou thought Tibbets took turned Ulverstone Uncle Jack Uncle Roland uncle's Vivian voice walk William Caxton window woman word young youth
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Side 181 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Side 308 - He had, to a morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem or the love of his species; only the hard wish to succeed— not shine, not serve— succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit.
Side 29 - You would be very sorry if your mamma were to throw that box out of the window and break it for fun." I looked beseechingly at my father, and made no answer. "But perhaps you would be very glad...
Side 233 - When I saw Dr. Gode begin to tell his puddings hanging in the chimney, I told him he would not live long!" I wish I had copied that passage from
Side 308 - There seemed to him no moral susceptibility ; and, what was more remarkable in a proud nature, little or nothing of the true point of honor.
Side 107 - Or pore over you through a microscope, to see how your blood circulates from the crown of your head to the sole of your foot...
Side 74 - there's a great deal to be said on both sides of the question. You see, my boy, that Mrs. Primmins has a great many moulds for our butter-pats ; sometimes they come up with a crown on them, sometimes with the more popular impress of a cow. It is all very well for those who dish up the butter to print it according to their taste, or in proof of their abilities ; it is enough for us to butter our bread, say grace, and pay for the dairy. Do you understand ? " " Not a bit. sir." " Your namesake Pisistratus...
Side 32 - I fear we could not afford to give more than eighteen shillings for it, unless the young gentleman took some of these pretty things in exchange." " Eighteen shillings !" said my father; "you would give that sum. Well, my boy, whenever you do grow tired of your box, you have my leave to sell it.
Side 31 - That is some months to wait ; and we can wait, my boy : for truth that blooms all the year round is better than a poor geranium, and a word that is never broken is better than a piece of delf." 5. My head, which had been drooping before, rose again ; but the rush of joy at my heart almost stifled me. " I have called to pay your little bill...
Side 380 - tis in war that the knot of fellowship is closest drawn. Tis in war that mutual succour is most given, mutual danger run, and common affection most exerted and employed. For heroism and philanthropy are almost one and the same.