The Atlantic Monthly, Volum 30Atlantic Monthly Company, 1872 |
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Pàgina 8
... young man , " said the doctor , testily , " you have something in your brain that makes you talk very foolishly ; and I have partly a suspicion what it is , only I can't think that a fellow who is really gifted with respectable sense ...
... young man , " said the doctor , testily , " you have something in your brain that makes you talk very foolishly ; and I have partly a suspicion what it is , only I can't think that a fellow who is really gifted with respectable sense ...
Pàgina 23
... young days were Christ Church men . During all the centuries that the rich dark stain has been gathering upon the carved oak in the ceiling and wainscot , it has been the scene of banquets and pageants without number , at which the most ...
... young days were Christ Church men . During all the centuries that the rich dark stain has been gathering upon the carved oak in the ceiling and wainscot , it has been the scene of banquets and pageants without number , at which the most ...
Pàgina 24
... young feet , and where on the play - ground the old elms shadow turf where so many soldiers and statesmen have been trained to struggle in larger fields , there is noth- ing after all finer than the great hall . In every age since the ...
... young feet , and where on the play - ground the old elms shadow turf where so many soldiers and statesmen have been trained to struggle in larger fields , there is noth- ing after all finer than the great hall . In every age since the ...
Pàgina 27
... young people , and which has almost no chance to exercise itself , except in the per- formance of the farces to which we are treated in " private theatricals . " Can it not be put to a better use ? It would be a cumbrous matter to repre ...
... young people , and which has almost no chance to exercise itself , except in the per- formance of the farces to which we are treated in " private theatricals . " Can it not be put to a better use ? It would be a cumbrous matter to repre ...
Pàgina 28
... young ladies have declaimed and sung this work with so much modesty and piety , it has not been possible to keep it shut up in the secrecy of the institution ; so that a diversion of young people has become a subject of interest for all ...
... young ladies have declaimed and sung this work with so much modesty and piety , it has not been possible to keep it shut up in the secrecy of the institution ; so that a diversion of young people has become a subject of interest for all ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 273 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Pàgina 273 - ... passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Pàgina 315 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Pàgina 41 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Pàgina 273 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and -thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Pàgina 395 - Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people.
Pàgina 395 - I find the general fate of humanity here most deplorable. The truth of Voltaire's observation, offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil.
Pàgina 31 - Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb 1020 Higher than the sphery chime ; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Pàgina 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Pàgina 26 - There while they acted and overacted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator ; they thought themselves gallant men, and I thought them • fools ; they made sport, and I laughed ; they mispronounced, and I misliked ; and to make up the atticism, they were out, and I hissed.