Our Last Years in IndiaSmith, Elder, 1862 - 331 pàgines |
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Pàgina 11
... earth . One cannot explain or justify the enthusiasm ; one is perfectly con- scious that a few months of home experience will won- derfully tone it down . The fogs , the income tax , the price of coals , will all thrust themselves ...
... earth . One cannot explain or justify the enthusiasm ; one is perfectly con- scious that a few months of home experience will won- derfully tone it down . The fogs , the income tax , the price of coals , will all thrust themselves ...
Pàgina 12
... earth , I do not say so beautiful , but beautiful with , to us , the same eloquence of beauty ; or that could whisper to our hearts the same ineffable memories ? And that old shrubbery , too , chastely gay with Guelder roses and lilac ...
... earth , I do not say so beautiful , but beautiful with , to us , the same eloquence of beauty ; or that could whisper to our hearts the same ineffable memories ? And that old shrubbery , too , chastely gay with Guelder roses and lilac ...
Pàgina 26
... earth . By some , however , they have been declared to be emblems of the sun , and so , indirectly , of the Creator . Before bidding adieu to the beetles , I may mention a curious superstition prevalent in Sweden . It is supposed that ...
... earth . By some , however , they have been declared to be emblems of the sun , and so , indirectly , of the Creator . Before bidding adieu to the beetles , I may mention a curious superstition prevalent in Sweden . It is supposed that ...
Pàgina 45
... uncertainly in the far - off prospect , and taxing the fancy to pronounce where earth ends and heaven begins . I love them best * A name assigned to , or assumed by , Aurungzeb . thus ; sometimes the outlines harden and take distinctness ,
... uncertainly in the far - off prospect , and taxing the fancy to pronounce where earth ends and heaven begins . I love them best * A name assigned to , or assumed by , Aurungzeb . thus ; sometimes the outlines harden and take distinctness ,
Pàgina 46
... earth . Why is it that mere home - views , however faultless and rich , have so little power over the imagination , which , in the midst of their plenty , seems to crave something they do not furnish ? Is it that her mistress , the soul ...
... earth . Why is it that mere home - views , however faultless and rich , have so little power over the imagination , which , in the midst of their plenty , seems to crave something they do not furnish ? Is it that her mistress , the soul ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 162 - God, to tell us our way. 9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer : for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) 10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said ; come, let us go.
Pàgina 168 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Pàgina 29 - And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
Pàgina 161 - If I go along trembling like a cloud driven by the wind, have mercy, almighty, have mercy.