An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My EducationGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 537 sidor |
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... natural sciences which do not lie quite as open to the working men of Britain and America as geology did to me . My work , then , if I have not wholly failed in it , may be regarded as a sort of educational treatise , iv TO THE READER .
... natural sciences which do not lie quite as open to the working men of Britain and America as geology did to me . My work , then , if I have not wholly failed in it , may be regarded as a sort of educational treatise , iv TO THE READER .
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... natural phenomena , to which their attention might be not unprofitably direct- ed . Should it be found to possess an ... nature . And as I have never pe- rused the autobiography of a working man of the more observant type , without being ...
... natural phenomena , to which their attention might be not unprofitably direct- ed . Should it be found to possess an ... nature . And as I have never pe- rused the autobiography of a working man of the more observant type , without being ...
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... nature of the reader . My aims have , I trust , been honest ones ; and should I in any degree succeed in rousing the humbler classes to the important work of self - culture and self - govern- ment , and in convincing the higher that ...
... nature of the reader . My aims have , I trust , been honest ones ; and should I in any degree succeed in rousing the humbler classes to the important work of self - culture and self - govern- ment , and in convincing the higher that ...
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... natural scenery a never - failing spring of delight . -Mental depression consequent upon physical fatigue . - Instances of great in- sensibility to personal danger . - Drinking usages of the profession . - Temptation overcome ...
... natural scenery a never - failing spring of delight . -Mental depression consequent upon physical fatigue . - Instances of great in- sensibility to personal danger . - Drinking usages of the profession . - Temptation overcome ...
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... nature . - Jock , the story - teller of the barracks . - The faculty for extemporary fabrication a peculiarity of a ... natural to a state of failing health . - Disastrous effects of the large farm system on the people of the ...
... nature . - Jock , the story - teller of the barracks . - The faculty for extemporary fabrication a peculiarity of a ... natural to a state of failing health . - Disastrous effects of the large farm system on the people of the ...
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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...