An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My EducationGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 537 sidor |
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... learned at the grammar school . - Bellicose peat expeditions . - The par- ish schoolmaster . - My progress in Latin . - Development of a talent for story- telling . Became a sort of favorite with the master . - The yearly cock - fight ...
... learned at the grammar school . - Bellicose peat expeditions . - The par- ish schoolmaster . - My progress in Latin . - Development of a talent for story- telling . Became a sort of favorite with the master . - The yearly cock - fight ...
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... learned to write ; and profited so much by the instruction of a comrade , an in- telligent and warm - hearted though reckless Irishman , that he became skilful enough to keep a log - book , and to take a reckoning with the necessary ...
... learned to write ; and profited so much by the instruction of a comrade , an in- telligent and warm - hearted though reckless Irishman , that he became skilful enough to keep a log - book , and to take a reckoning with the necessary ...
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... learned to take an interest in his story , as pre- served and told in the antique dwelling which he had built more than a hundred years before . To forget a love disap- pointment , he had set out early in life for OR , THE STORY OF MY ...
... learned to take an interest in his story , as pre- served and told in the antique dwelling which he had built more than a hundred years before . To forget a love disap- pointment , he had set out early in life for OR , THE STORY OF MY ...
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... learned to distinguish for myself his sloop when in the offing , by the two slim stripes of white that ran along her sides , and her twò square topsails . I have my golden memories , too , of splendid toys that he used to bring home ...
... learned to distinguish for myself his sloop when in the offing , by the two slim stripes of white that ran along her sides , and her twò square topsails . I have my golden memories , too , of splendid toys that he used to bring home ...
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... learned are content to write commentaries and dissertations , but which I found to be quite as nice chil- dren's books as any of the others . Old Homer wrote admi- rably for little folk , especially in the Odyssey ; OR , THE STORY OF MY ...
... learned are content to write commentaries and dissertations , but which I found to be quite as nice chil- dren's books as any of the others . Old Homer wrote admi- rably for little folk , especially in the Odyssey ; OR , THE STORY OF MY ...
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Sida i - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Sida 165 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Sida 224 - And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
Sida 395 - We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and ra'gs and paltry blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man.
Sida 186 - Wi' life an' light; Or winter howls, in gusty storms, The lang, dark night! The Muse, nae poet ever fand her, Till by himsel he learn'd to wander, Adown some trottin burn's meander, An' no think lang: O sweet to stray, an' pensive ponder A heart-felt sang!
Sida 433 - this palace is the seat of happiness; where pleasure succeeds to pleasure, and discontent and sorrow can have no admission. Whatever nature has provided for the delight of sense, is here spread...
Sida 38 - At Wallace' name, what Scottish blood But boils up in a spring-tide flood ! Oft have our fearless fathers strode By Wallace' side, Still pressing onward, red-wat shod, Or glorious died.
Sida 27 - I actually found out for myself that the art of reading is the art of finding stories in books; and from that moment reading became one of the most delightful of my amusements.
Sida 210 - Alternate triumphed in his breast; His bliss and woe — a smile, a tear; Oblivion hides the rest. The bounding pulse, the languid limb, The changing spirit's rise and fall; We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all.
Sida 28 - That left half-told the preternatural tale, Romance of Giants, chronicle of Fiends Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-knee'd, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, With long and ghostly shanks — forms which once seen Could never be forgotten...