Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 15Charles Dudley Warner International Society, 1896 - Literature |
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Page 5862
... story in them has proved antiseptic , defying the chances of oral transmission . A good story travels far , and the path which it wan- ders from people to people is often easy to follow ; but the more vola- tile contents of the popular ...
... story in them has proved antiseptic , defying the chances of oral transmission . A good story travels far , and the path which it wan- ders from people to people is often easy to follow ; but the more vola- tile contents of the popular ...
Page 5882
... story . story . One morning a Welsh coach - maker came with his bill to my lord , whose name was unluckily Lloyd . My lord had the man up : " You are called , I think , Mr. Lloyd ? " — “ At your Lordship's service , my lord . " - " What ...
... story . story . One morning a Welsh coach - maker came with his bill to my lord , whose name was unluckily Lloyd . My lord had the man up : " You are called , I think , Mr. Lloyd ? " — “ At your Lordship's service , my lord . " - " What ...
Page 5896
... story , that the suffering of Undine excites deep sympathy . Undine , the foster- daughter of a good old fisherman and his wife , is a water nymph , and as such is born without a soul . The knight Huldbrand von Ring- stetten is sent by ...
... story , that the suffering of Undine excites deep sympathy . Undine , the foster- daughter of a good old fisherman and his wife , is a water nymph , and as such is born without a soul . The knight Huldbrand von Ring- stetten is sent by ...
Page 5899
... story , and of our nuptial evening . " " Nay , not so , " replied the enamored knight , extinguishing the tapers , and a thousand times kissing his beautiful and be- loved bride ; while , lighted by the moon that shone brightly through ...
... story , and of our nuptial evening . " " Nay , not so , " replied the enamored knight , extinguishing the tapers , and a thousand times kissing his beautiful and be- loved bride ; while , lighted by the moon that shone brightly through ...
Page 5932
... stories , the rare excellence of which has given them a currency which has long since worn off their novelty : - " I have made it a rule , ' said he , whenever in my power , to avoid becoming the draftsman of papers to be reviewed by a ...
... stories , the rare excellence of which has given them a currency which has long since worn off their novelty : - " I have made it a rule , ' said he , whenever in my power , to avoid becoming the draftsman of papers to be reviewed by a ...
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Page 5963 - I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly...
Page 5959 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...
Page 5938 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Page 5950 - I had made of the sense of all ages and nations. However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it, and though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer.
Page 5950 - I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men.
Page 5960 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 5957 - We have an English proverb that says, " He that would thrive must ask his wife.
Page 6133 - He studieth his scholars' natures as carefully as they their books; and ranks their dispositions into several forms. And though it may seem difficult for him in a great school to descend to all particulars, yet experienced schoolmasters may quickly make a grammar of boys' natures, and reduce them all — saving some few exceptions — to these general rules : 1.
Page 5947 - Goods, but if you do not take Care, they will prove Evils to some of you. You expect they will be sold cheap, and perhaps they may for less than they cost; but if you have no Occasion for them, they must be dear to you. Remember what Poor Richard says, Buy what thou hast no Need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
Page 6247 - How can they say that nature Has nothing made in vain; Why then beneath the water Should hideous rocks remain? No eyes the rocks discover, That lurk beneath the deep, To wreck the wand'ring lover, And leave the maid to weep.