Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysC. Scribner, 1861 - 344 pages |
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... IDEA , ............ . 208 LESSON XVI . SHYING PEOPLE , .... 222 LESSON XVII . FAITH IN HUMANITY ,. .............. 236 LESSON XVIII . SORE SPOTS AND SENSITIVE SPOTS , ......... 250 LESSON XIX . THE INFLUENCE OF PRAISE , .. 265 LESSON XX ...
... IDEA , ............ . 208 LESSON XVI . SHYING PEOPLE , .... 222 LESSON XVII . FAITH IN HUMANITY ,. .............. 236 LESSON XVIII . SORE SPOTS AND SENSITIVE SPOTS , ......... 250 LESSON XIX . THE INFLUENCE OF PRAISE , .. 265 LESSON XX ...
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... idea , as if it were a colic , or a flea , often at midnight , and are obliged to rise and dispose of it in some way . We are told of very delicate girls who carry pencils and cards with them , to take the names and address of such ...
... idea , as if it were a colic , or a flea , often at midnight , and are obliged to rise and dispose of it in some way . We are told of very delicate girls who carry pencils and cards with them , to take the names and address of such ...
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... idea . And so here we are , you standing at the manger , old boy , and I sitting upon it ; the mortal and the immortal , close together ; your nose on my knee , my paper on your head ; yet with something between us broader than the ...
... idea . And so here we are , you standing at the manger , old boy , and I sitting upon it ; the mortal and the immortal , close together ; your nose on my knee , my paper on your head ; yet with something between us broader than the ...
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... ideas of life , who thinks and declares that the happiest moments of her experience were those which were filled with the frolic of animal life ? If I felt like this , I should wish that my children 3 Animal Content . 49.
... ideas of life , who thinks and declares that the happiest moments of her experience were those which were filled with the frolic of animal life ? If I felt like this , I should wish that my children 3 Animal Content . 49.
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... ideas , vices , all have children , whose features betray their parentage ; so that no parent has a right to ex- pect a child to be better than its father and mother . On the contrary , he has every reason to believe that every thing ...
... ideas , vices , all have children , whose features betray their parentage ; so that no parent has a right to ex- pect a child to be better than its father and mother . On the contrary , he has every reason to believe that every thing ...
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Page 16 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 190 - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 23 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
Page 313 - My stubborn right abide ; I set a plain man's common sense Against the pedant's pride. To-day shall simple manhood try The strength of gold and land ; The wide world has not wealth to buy The power in my right hand...
Page 7 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Page 175 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 248 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 234 - For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along, Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong ; Whether conscious or unconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame Through its ocean.sundered fibres feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
Page 234 - Tis the finest sense Of justice which the human mind can frame, Intent each lurking frailty to disclaim, And guard the way of life from all offence Suffered or done.
Page 209 - It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.