Table-talk on Books, Men, and MannersRobert Conger Pell G. P. Putnam, 1853 - 229 Seiten |
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... seems to take the rough and smooth with an equal countenance . This sort of unbended philosophy is the best gift that nature can bestow on her children ; it lightens the burden of care , and turns every fable , and ghastly hue of memory ...
... seems to take the rough and smooth with an equal countenance . This sort of unbended philosophy is the best gift that nature can bestow on her children ; it lightens the burden of care , and turns every fable , and ghastly hue of memory ...
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... seem , I assure you that it is to the life : the explainer , too , is reckoned a very sen- sible man ; and the listener saw nothing inconclusive in the elucidation . - England and the English . Bulwer . MR . THOMAS HILL . Mr. Hill died ...
... seem , I assure you that it is to the life : the explainer , too , is reckoned a very sen- sible man ; and the listener saw nothing inconclusive in the elucidation . - England and the English . Bulwer . MR . THOMAS HILL . Mr. Hill died ...
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... seems , like other great inventors , to have lost much of his reputation , by the continual improvements that have been made upon him . - Swift . THE HEALTHY MAN . 1 Of all the know - nothing persons in this world , commend us to the ...
... seems , like other great inventors , to have lost much of his reputation , by the continual improvements that have been made upon him . - Swift . THE HEALTHY MAN . 1 Of all the know - nothing persons in this world , commend us to the ...
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... seems to afford pretext for this assertion . - Sydney Smith . PRIVATE FAMILY HISTORY . The history of any private family , however hum- ble , could it be fully related for five or six genera- tions , would illustrate the state and ...
... seems to afford pretext for this assertion . - Sydney Smith . PRIVATE FAMILY HISTORY . The history of any private family , however hum- ble , could it be fully related for five or six genera- tions , would illustrate the state and ...
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... seems to possess the sentiments of an accomplished gentleman , the information of a scholar , and the vivacity of a first - rate harlequin . He is fuddled with animal spir- its , giddy with constitutional joy : in such a state , he must ...
... seems to possess the sentiments of an accomplished gentleman , the information of a scholar , and the vivacity of a first - rate harlequin . He is fuddled with animal spir- its , giddy with constitutional joy : in such a state , he must ...
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Seite 127 - And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep : and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Seite 209 - That the remaining hundred thousand may at a year old be offered in sale to the persons of quality, and fortune, through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Seite 40 - ... everybody should be easy ; in the nature of things it cannot be : there must always be some degree of care and anxiety. The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man, but a very impudent dog...
Seite 81 - Give a man this taste and a means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. "You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. " You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
Seite 91 - I am amazed at his grace's speech. The noble duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble peer who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as honourable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident...
Seite 152 - Reader, if haply thou art blessed with a moderate collection, be shy of showing it; or if thy heart overfloweth to lend them, lend thy books; but let it be to such a one as STC — he will return them (generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury; enriched with annotations, tripling their value.
Seite 101 - With peculiar fondness they will recall that venerable chamber, in which all the antique gravity of a college library was so singularly blended with all that female grace and wit could devise to embellish a drawing-room.
Seite 210 - I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the public good of my country, by advancing our trade ; providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich. I have no children by which I can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing.
Seite 136 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light, You common people of the skies; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Seite 45 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.