An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My EducationGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 537 sidor |
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... regarding the mode in which this effective sailor quitted the navy . The country had borrowed his services without consulting his will ; and he , I suspect , reclaimed them on his own behalf without first asking leave . I have been told ...
... regarding the mode in which this effective sailor quitted the navy . The country had borrowed his services without consulting his will ; and he , I suspect , reclaimed them on his own behalf without first asking leave . I have been told ...
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... regarding me with apparent complacency ; but I was sadly frightened ; and for years after , when passing through the dingy , ill - lighted room , out of which I inferred he had come , I used to feel not at all sure that I might not tilt ...
... regarding me with apparent complacency ; but I was sadly frightened ; and for years after , when passing through the dingy , ill - lighted room , out of which I inferred he had come , I used to feel not at all sure that I might not tilt ...
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... regarding him which still float among the old recol- lections of Ross - shire , if transferred to Peden or Welch , would be found entirely in character with the strange stories that inlay the biographies of these devoted men , and live ...
... regarding him which still float among the old recol- lections of Ross - shire , if transferred to Peden or Welch , would be found entirely in character with the strange stories that inlay the biographies of these devoted men , and live ...
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... regarding the questions of the Shorter Catechism as seed sown for a future day , they were content with having them well fixed in our memories . There was a Sabbath class taught in the parish church at the time by one of the elders ...
... regarding the questions of the Shorter Catechism as seed sown for a future day , they were content with having them well fixed in our memories . There was a Sabbath class taught in the parish church at the time by one of the elders ...
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... regarding the glories of gallant birds , who had continued to fight until both their eyes had been picked out , or who , in the moment of victory , had dropped dead in the middle of the cock - pit . The yearly fight was the relic of a ...
... regarding the glories of gallant birds , who had continued to fight until both their eyes had been picked out , or who , in the moment of victory , had dropped dead in the middle of the cock - pit . The yearly fight was the relic of a ...
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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...