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... English . The paper on " American Litera- ture " would alone prove this , and we know of no essay that crowds so much critical information into so brief a space . It is a mine of almost inexhaustible wealth for the young student , and ...
... English . The paper on " American Litera- ture " would alone prove this , and we know of no essay that crowds so much critical information into so brief a space . It is a mine of almost inexhaustible wealth for the young student , and ...
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... English of the French coxcomb , " Every man for myself . " ― We therefore are reluctantly compelled to believe that the notorious abuses of our credit system , the frightful commercial revulsions they occasion , and the 、 agrarian laws ...
... English of the French coxcomb , " Every man for myself . " ― We therefore are reluctantly compelled to believe that the notorious abuses of our credit system , the frightful commercial revulsions they occasion , and the 、 agrarian laws ...
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... English for bête ; but considered as coming from disembodied souls , they cast discredit on the human mind itself . And then , sir , what fol- lies you practical men slip into ! ' Tis a pity that with all your boasted sense you have n't ...
... English for bête ; but considered as coming from disembodied souls , they cast discredit on the human mind itself . And then , sir , what fol- lies you practical men slip into ! ' Tis a pity that with all your boasted sense you have n't ...
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... English oaths that by natives are commonly thought to be original contributions to the English vocabulary of imprecation and maledic- tion , to French , Roman , and even Greek sources . We are so defective in our scholarship , as far as ...
... English oaths that by natives are commonly thought to be original contributions to the English vocabulary of imprecation and maledic- tion , to French , Roman , and even Greek sources . We are so defective in our scholarship , as far as ...
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... English language to express sterility of mind and vacuity of heart . But there is a coarse fibre in the physical and moral constitution of the English race , which was early indicated by its habit of profane swearing . Curses were ...
... English language to express sterility of mind and vacuity of heart . But there is a coarse fibre in the physical and moral constitution of the English race , which was early indicated by its habit of profane swearing . Curses were ...
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Страница 342 - Mama is like you, Floy. I know her by the face ! But tell them that the print upon the stairs at school is not divine enough. The light about the head is shining on me as I go ! ".. - , .j, ,4 ' ' The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room.
Страница 336 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Страница 337 - Per week. Yes. As to the amount of strain upon the intellect now. Was you thinking at all of poetry?' Mr Wegg inquired, musing. 'Would it come dearer?' Mr Boffin asked. 'It would come dearer,' Mr Wegg returned. 'For when a person comes to grind off poetry night after night, it is but right he should expect to be paid for its weakening effect on his mind.
Страница 252 - ... temples, and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open, and lift his eyebrows up. A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start. A man who could never sufficiently vaunt himself a selfmade man. A man who was always proclaiming, through that brassy speaking-trumpet of a voice of his, his old ignorance and his old poverty. A man who was the Bully of humility.
Страница 252 - A big, loud man, with a stare and a metallic laugh. A man made out of a coarse material, which seemed to have been stretched to make so much of him. A man with a great puffed head and forehead, swelled veins in his temples, and such a strained skin to his face that it seemed to hold his eyes open and lift his eyebrows up. A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start.
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Страница 342 - The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion ! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion — Death!
Страница 322 - m getting more used up every day, and I 'm proud to be so. If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you 'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is.
Страница 52 - ... his hind limbs, while it has been said that all the apes possess four hands ; and he has been affirmed to differ fundamentally from all the apes in the characters of his brain, which alone, it has been strangely asserted and reasserted, exhibits the structures known to anatomists as the posterior lobe, the posterior cornu of the lateral ventricle and the hippocampus minor.
Страница 141 - That lie upon her charmed heart. She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.