A Soldier of LifeMacmillan, 1917 - 326 pages |
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... human faces , little human shapes , solemnly stepped out of the low vase in which they were stand- ing , ranged themselves in a courtly row , and bowed to me , like flowers in a children's fairy - 8 A SOLDIER OF LIFE.
... human faces , little human shapes , solemnly stepped out of the low vase in which they were stand- ing , ranged themselves in a courtly row , and bowed to me , like flowers in a children's fairy - 8 A SOLDIER OF LIFE.
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... human face , common as a primrose ; her eyes , her fingers , her neck , her breast , to which her dear arms had held me . I saw her , too , a baby in her mother's arms ; growing up till she met my father and was drawn by some power to ...
... human face , common as a primrose ; her eyes , her fingers , her neck , her breast , to which her dear arms had held me . I saw her , too , a baby in her mother's arms ; growing up till she met my father and was drawn by some power to ...
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... Human Personality , " and the numerous authentic stories of sane healthy people who had had experiences beside which mine was insignificant were not consoling . One woman had two quite distinct personalities . Her character and memory A ...
... Human Personality , " and the numerous authentic stories of sane healthy people who had had experiences beside which mine was insignificant were not consoling . One woman had two quite distinct personalities . Her character and memory A ...
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... Human Machine " and gave myself over to his doughty writing . Never had my favourite living author proved doughtier or more reassuring . Each unfaltering sentence was a timely slap upon my back . This was the fellow . He walked through ...
... Human Machine " and gave myself over to his doughty writing . Never had my favourite living author proved doughtier or more reassuring . Each unfaltering sentence was a timely slap upon my back . This was the fellow . He walked through ...
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... humanity to be able to dismiss any manifestation lightly . " " You mean cases of incipient lunacy , " I said casually . 66 By no means . Far stranger than that . Lu- nacy , roughly speaking , infers some form of decay . This ...
... humanity to be able to dismiss any manifestation lightly . " " You mean cases of incipient lunacy , " I said casually . 66 By no means . Far stranger than that . Lu- nacy , roughly speaking , infers some form of decay . This ...
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Page 216 - Spirit; grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in His holy comfort, through the merits of Christ Jesus, our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
Page 210 - LORD of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things; graft in our hearts the love of thy name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 211 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who art always more ready to hear than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire, or deserve...
Page 308 - ... strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bare the naked and sleeping beauty, which is the spirit of its forms.
Page 219 - He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.
Page 24 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 216 - GOD, who as at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people, by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit ; Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort...
Page 308 - It compels us to feel that which we perceive, and to imagine that which we know. It creates anew the universe, after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.
Page 308 - It makes us the inhabitants of a world to which the familiar world is a chaos. It reproduces the common universe of which we are portions and percipients, and it purges from our inward sight the film of familiarity which obscures from us the wonder of our being.
Page 215 - ... remarkably well." This remark was made the other day by a person wholly unaware of its significance. This feeling of being banded together, which comes over a great population in its hour of trial, is a wonderful thing. It produces a kind of exhilaration which goes far to offset the severity of the trial. The spirit of fellowship, with its attendant cheerfulness, is in the air. It is comparatively easy to love one's neighbour when we realize that he and we are common servants and common sufferers...