An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My EducationGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 537 sidor |
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... is not often seen , and know , in consequence , what is not generally known . In a work cast into the autobio- graphic form , the writer has always much to apologize for . With himself for his subject , he usually TO THE READER .
... is not often seen , and know , in consequence , what is not generally known . In a work cast into the autobio- graphic form , the writer has always much to apologize for . With himself for his subject , he usually TO THE READER .
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... usually tells not only more than he ought , but also , in not a few in- stances , more than he intends . For , as has been well remarked , whatever may be the character which a writer of his own Memoirs is desirous of assuming , he ...
... usually tells not only more than he ought , but also , in not a few in- stances , more than he intends . For , as has been well remarked , whatever may be the character which a writer of his own Memoirs is desirous of assuming , he ...
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... usually so in the generation just passed away . Of the boy's two uncles , one had sailed around the world with Anson , and assisted in burning Paita , and in boarding the Manilla gal- leon ; but on reaching the English coast he ...
... usually so in the generation just passed away . Of the boy's two uncles , one had sailed around the world with Anson , and assisted in burning Paita , and in boarding the Manilla gal- leon ; but on reaching the English coast he ...
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... usually played on the Sabbath . About the time of the Revolution , however , he was laid hold of by strong religious convictions , heralded , say the traditions of the district , by events that approximated in cha- racter to the ...
... usually played on the Sabbath . About the time of the Revolution , however , he was laid hold of by strong religious convictions , heralded , say the traditions of the district , by events that approximated in cha- racter to the ...
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... usually employed a few journeymen , and kept a few apprentices . In course of time , the elder daughters of the family married and got households of their own ; but the two sons , my uncles , remained under the roof of their parents ...
... usually employed a few journeymen , and kept a few apprentices . In course of time , the elder daughters of the family married and got households of their own ; but the two sons , my uncles , remained under the roof of their parents ...
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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...