Spare Hours, by John BrownHoughton, Mifflin, 1882 - 458 pàgines |
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Pàgina 11
... never for- get , which makes the world kin ; and it gave me an op- portunity of introducing , in a way which he cannot dis- like , for he knows it is simply true , my old master and friend , Professor Syme , whose indenture I am ...
... never for- get , which makes the world kin ; and it gave me an op- portunity of introducing , in a way which he cannot dis- like , for he knows it is simply true , my old master and friend , Professor Syme , whose indenture I am ...
Pàgina 12
... never seen his perspicacity equalled ; his mental eye is achro- matic , and admits into the judging mind a pure white light , and records an undisturbed , uncolored image , un- diminished and unenlarged in its passage ; and he has the ...
... never seen his perspicacity equalled ; his mental eye is achro- matic , and admits into the judging mind a pure white light , and records an undisturbed , uncolored image , un- diminished and unenlarged in its passage ; and he has the ...
Pàgina 28
... never saw a more unforgetable face pale , seri ous , lonely , delicate , sweet , without being at all what we call fine . She looked sixty , and had on a mutch , white as snow , with its black ribbon ; her silvery , smooth hair setting ...
... never saw a more unforgetable face pale , seri ous , lonely , delicate , sweet , without being at all what we call fine . She looked sixty , and had on a mutch , white as snow , with its black ribbon ; her silvery , smooth hair setting ...
Pàgina 29
... never saw a more beautiful coun tenance , or one more subdued to settled quiet . Ailie , " said James , " this is Maister John , the young doctor ; Rab's freend , ye ken . We often speak aboot you , doc . tor . " She smiled , and made a ...
... never saw a more beautiful coun tenance , or one more subdued to settled quiet . Ailie , " said James , " this is Maister John , the young doctor ; Rab's freend , ye ken . We often speak aboot you , doc . tor . " She smiled , and made a ...
Pàgina 31
... never looked at Rab without thinking of the great Baptist preacher , Andrew Fuller . " The same large , heavy , menacing , combative , sombre , honest coun tenance , the same deep inevitable eye , the same look , -as of thunder asleep ...
... never looked at Rab without thinking of the great Baptist preacher , Andrew Fuller . " The same large , heavy , menacing , combative , sombre , honest coun tenance , the same deep inevitable eye , the same look , -as of thunder asleep ...
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Pàgina 210 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Pàgina 170 - God gives us love. Something to love He lends us ; but, when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
Pàgina 184 - But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
Pàgina 244 - Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play!
Pàgina 283 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Pàgina 246 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Pàgina 210 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, "I have no need of thee:" nor again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you.
Pàgina 364 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow. The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Pàgina 349 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Pàgina 203 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, "Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.