The Map of Life, Conduct and CharacterLongmans, Green, 1899 - 328 pages |
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... periods of retirement from the world , is much less common than on the Continent and it is certainly diminishing . The English tendency is to turn away speedily from the past , and to seek consolation in new fields of activity ...
... periods of retirement from the world , is much less common than on the Continent and it is certainly diminishing . The English tendency is to turn away speedily from the past , and to seek consolation in new fields of activity ...
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... period when habits and tastes are formed , and the yoke which is then lightly , willingly , wantonly assumed will in after years acquire a crushing weight . Few SLIGHT CAUSES OF LIFE FAILURES 13 things are more striking 12 THE MAP OF LIFE.
... period when habits and tastes are formed , and the yoke which is then lightly , willingly , wantonly assumed will in after years acquire a crushing weight . Few SLIGHT CAUSES OF LIFE FAILURES 13 things are more striking 12 THE MAP OF LIFE.
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... period of modern English history . If questioned he could tell about the stirring scenes of the great Reform Bill of 1832 , but it was curious to observe how speedily and inevitably he passed from such matters to the history of the ...
... period of modern English history . If questioned he could tell about the stirring scenes of the great Reform Bill of 1832 , but it was curious to observe how speedily and inevitably he passed from such matters to the history of the ...
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... period after it has been regained . Gray has described the new sensation of pleasure which convalescence gives in well - known lines : See the wretch who long has toss't On the thorny bed of pain , At length repair his vigour lost And ...
... period after it has been regained . Gray has described the new sensation of pleasure which convalescence gives in well - known lines : See the wretch who long has toss't On the thorny bed of pain , At length repair his vigour lost And ...
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... periods as very serious and in others as very trivial . The heroic type of Paganism and the saintly type of Christianity in its purest form , consist largely of the same elements , but the proportions in which they are mixed are ...
... periods as very serious and in others as very trivial . The heroic type of Paganism and the saintly type of Christianity in its purest form , consist largely of the same elements , but the proportions in which they are mixed are ...
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Page 24 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 307 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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