Horae Subsecivae: Rab and His Friends : and Other PapersBernhard Tauchnitz, 1862 - 340 pages |
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... reasons ; and boys are not cruel because they like to see the fight . They see three of the great cardinal virtues of dog or courage , endurance , and skill in intense action . This is very different from a love of making dogs fight ...
... reasons ; and boys are not cruel because they like to see the fight . They see three of the great cardinal virtues of dog or courage , endurance , and skill in intense action . This is very different from a love of making dogs fight ...
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... reason to believe , in his own lobby . Toby contented him- self with proclaiming his victory at the door , and returning finished his bone - planting at his leisure ; the enemy , who had scuttled behind the glass - door , glaring at him ...
... reason to believe , in his own lobby . Toby contented him- self with proclaiming his victory at the door , and returning finished his bone - planting at his leisure ; the enemy , who had scuttled behind the glass - door , glaring at him ...
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... Glenshee , and asked , " My man , were you ever fou ' ? " " Ay aince " speaking slowly , as if remembering " Ay , aince . " " Cauld mutton ! " " What on ? " There is reason to believe that by one of those 28 HORAE SUBSECIVAE .
... Glenshee , and asked , " My man , were you ever fou ' ? " " Ay aince " speaking slowly , as if remembering " Ay , aince . " " Cauld mutton ! " " What on ? " There is reason to believe that by one of those 28 HORAE SUBSECIVAE .
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Rab and His Friends : and Other Papers John Brown. There is reason to believe that by one of those curious in- tertwistings of existence , the milk - boy was that one of the drowning party who got the penny of the twopence . WYLIE . Our ...
Rab and His Friends : and Other Papers John Brown. There is reason to believe that by one of those curious in- tertwistings of existence , the milk - boy was that one of the drowning party who got the penny of the twopence . WYLIE . Our ...
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... reason ( ǎvev za yàp λóyou ) , he does not mean to imply that it grows up altogether independent of reason , any more than Whewell means to say that all the discoveries in the inductive sciences have been made by men taking ' shots ' at ...
... reason ( ǎvev za yàp λóyou ) , he does not mean to imply that it grows up altogether independent of reason , any more than Whewell means to say that all the discoveries in the inductive sciences have been made by men taking ' shots ' at ...
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Page 294 - THE Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more ; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills ; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Page 126 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
Page 133 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 159 - Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed ; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
Page 328 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Page 133 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 126 - And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
Page 223 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 293 - O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, break, break At the foot of thy crags, O sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Page 295 - Time; Which masters Time indeed, and is Eternal, separate from fears: The all-assuming months and years Can take no part away from this...