Svensk-engelsk synonymbok: en samling svenska homonymer och synonymer återgivna på engelska ...

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P.A. Norstedt söners, 1911 - 740 Seiten
 

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Seite 415 - With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.
Seite 71 - And if he also bartered away plums that would have rotted in a week, for nuts that would last good for his eating a whole year...
Seite 12 - If we inquire what is the real motive for giving boys a classical education, we find it to be simply conformity to public opinion.
Seite 175 - Cheerfulness is just as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek ; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.
Seite 411 - Tis said the lion will turn and flee From a maid in the pride of her purity ; And the Power on high, that can shield the good Thus from the tyrant of the wood, Hath extended its- mercy to guard me as well From the hands of the leaguering infidel.
Seite 469 - Permission to use the Reading-Room will be withdrawn from any person who shall write or make marks on any part of a printed book, manuscript, or map belonging to the Museum.
Seite 469 - Whoever, knowing what Italy and Scotland naturally are, and what four hundred years ago they actually were, shall now compare the country round Rome with the country round Edinburgh, will be able to form some judgment as to the tendency of papal domination.
Seite 498 - Agnates, in the law both of England and Scotland, are persons related through the father, as cognates are persons related through the mother. In the Roman law, both of these terms had a somewhat different signification.
Seite 454 - And last, but not least, is it not the very property of man that he is a spirit invested with flesh and blood? Then must not the ideal man have, once at least, taken on himself flesh and blood also? Else, how could he fulfil his own idea?
Seite 119 - I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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