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... truth , and to the laws of visible fact . If we can project ourselves , our prejudices , our sympathies and aversions , apply them to some given period , wheel opposite events rapidly together as children wheel a chromatrope , we shall ...
... truth , and to the laws of visible fact . If we can project ourselves , our prejudices , our sympathies and aversions , apply them to some given period , wheel opposite events rapidly together as children wheel a chromatrope , we shall ...
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... truth is , that this time they knew what to look for . They had no longer the same attraction of unused expectation to draw them on to the last page of the easy - going narrative . In their satisfied mood , the reaction of their idol ...
... truth is , that this time they knew what to look for . They had no longer the same attraction of unused expectation to draw them on to the last page of the easy - going narrative . In their satisfied mood , the reaction of their idol ...
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... truth , the barbarity and filthiness of the banquets of the Rapparees was such as the dramatists of Grub Street could scarcely caricature . When Lent began , the plunderers gene- rally ceased to devour , but continued to destroy . A ...
... truth , the barbarity and filthiness of the banquets of the Rapparees was such as the dramatists of Grub Street could scarcely caricature . When Lent began , the plunderers gene- rally ceased to devour , but continued to destroy . A ...
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... truth from error . " The wise emperor , who knew how rarely it is that truth is permitted to find its way to royal ears , set a just value on the man who had the courage to speak it . Under the influence of these teachers , and , still ...
... truth from error . " The wise emperor , who knew how rarely it is that truth is permitted to find its way to royal ears , set a just value on the man who had the courage to speak it . Under the influence of these teachers , and , still ...
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... truth seems to be , that Alva was a man of an arrogant nature , an inflexible will , and of the most narrow and limited views . His doctrine of implicit obedience went as far as that of Philip himself . In enforcing it , he disdained ...
... truth seems to be , that Alva was a man of an arrogant nature , an inflexible will , and of the most narrow and limited views . His doctrine of implicit obedience went as far as that of Philip himself . In enforcing it , he disdained ...
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Page 18 - It was not her time to love ; beside, Her life had many a hope and aim, Duties enough and little...
Page 18 - I loved you, Evelyn, all the while ! My heart seemed full as it could hold ; There was place and to spare for the frank young smile, And the red young mouth, and the hair's young gold. So, hush, — I will give you this leaf to keep : See, I shut it inside the sweet cold hand ! There, that is our secret : go to sleep ! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Page 18 - EVELYN HOPE Beautiful Evelyn Hope is dead ! Sit and watch by her side an hour. That is her book-shelf, this her bed; She plucked that piece of geranium-flower, Beginning to die too, in the glass; Little has yet been changed, I think : The shutters are shut, no light may pass Save two long rays through the hinge's chink.
Page 230 - But the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.
Page 19 - A moment after, and hands unseen Were hanging the night around us fast; But we knew that a bar was broken between Life and life: we were mixed at last In spite of the mortal screen.
Page 27 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on...
Page 205 - On the whole, we make too much of faults; the details of the business hide the real centre of it. Faults ? The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Page 264 - ANALOGUE." — A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. " HOMOLOGUE." — The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function f.
Page 17 - Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe Long ago; Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame Struck them tame; And that glory and that shame alike, the gold Bought and sold.
Page 19 - Be hate that fruit or love that fruit, It forwards the general deed of man, And each of the Many helps to recruit The life of the race by a general plan ; Each living his own, to boot.