 | 1877 - 826 pages
...? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe ? And yet it is not so. The ends...inconsiderable that the mind freezes at the thought. — Cornhill Magazine. LIFE AND TIMES OF THOMAS BECKET. BY JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE. BECKET was now forty-four... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 854 pages
...lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe t And yet it is not so. The ends for which they give...inconsiderable that the mind freezes at the thought. RLS planet of AMIDST wars and rumours of war, the planet which has for its symbol the spear and shield... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 808 pages
...destiny? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe ? And yet it is not so. The ends...may never come, or may find them indifferent ; and tbey and the world they inhabit are so inconsiderable that the mind freezes at the thought. RLS |1Ianet... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 pages
...? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe ? And yet it is not so. The ends...inconsiderable that the mind freezes at the thought. ORDERED SOUTH "DY a curious irony of fate, the places to which we are sent when health deserts us are... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...destiny? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centre-point of all the universe? And yet it is not so. The ends...inconsiderable that the mind freezes at the thought. ORDERED SOUTH ORDERED SOUTH Y a curious irony of fate, the places to which we are sent when health... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pages
...temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid ; and fine young men who work...priceless youth, for all they know, may be chimerical, cr hurtful ; the glory and riches they expect may never come, or may find them indifferem ; and they... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 238 pages
...destiny? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe? And yet it is not so. The ends...inconsiderable that the mind freezes at the thought. AS we go catching and catching at this or •'^ that corner of knowledge, now getting a foresight of... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe ? And yet it is not so. The ends...inconsiderable that the mind freezes at the thought. ORDERED SOUTH BY a curious irony of fate, the places to which we are sent when health deserts us are... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces •was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe ? And yet it is not so. The ends...may never come, or may find them indifferent; and {hey and the world they inhabit are so inconsiderable that the mind freezes at the thought. ORDERED... | |
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... into a decline, and are driven off in a hearse with white plumes upon it. Would you not suppose these persons had been whispered, by the Master of the Ceremonies, the promise of some momentous destiny ? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they... 
