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... practical character , giving account of , and directing , the actual operations of St. George's Company ; and containing elements of instruction for its schools , the scheme of which shall be , I will answer for it , plainly enough , by ...
... practical character , giving account of , and directing , the actual operations of St. George's Company ; and containing elements of instruction for its schools , the scheme of which shall be , I will answer for it , plainly enough , by ...
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... practical , and businesslike , and comfortable , and truly English . But suppose you set your wits to work for once in a Florentine or Venetian manner , and ask , as a merchant of Venice would have asked , or a " good man " of the ...
... practical , and businesslike , and comfortable , and truly English . But suppose you set your wits to work for once in a Florentine or Venetian manner , and ask , as a merchant of Venice would have asked , or a " good man " of the ...
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... practical of all , to be ob- served by you as to the management of your commissariat . Whatever laws you make about your bread - however wise and brave , you will not get it unless you pray for it . If you would not be fed with stones ...
... practical of all , to be ob- served by you as to the management of your commissariat . Whatever laws you make about your bread - however wise and brave , you will not get it unless you pray for it . If you would not be fed with stones ...
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... practical issue of all this . 13. I have told you the wealth of the world consists , for one great article , in its useful animals . 10 Engraved above the statue of Raphael on the Ducal Palace.11 [ Ruth i . 17. ] [ See Letter 70 , § 8 ...
... practical issue of all this . 13. I have told you the wealth of the world consists , for one great article , in its useful animals . 10 Engraved above the statue of Raphael on the Ducal Palace.11 [ Ruth i . 17. ] [ See Letter 70 , § 8 ...
Page 72
... practical help , I should like a squad of you to stand always harnessed , at the bottom of any hills you know of in Sheffield , -where the horses strain ; -ready there at given hours ; carts ordered not to pass at any others : at the ...
... practical help , I should like a squad of you to stand always harnessed , at the bottom of any hills you know of in Sheffield , -where the horses strain ; -ready there at given hours ; carts ordered not to pass at any others : at the ...
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Page 188 - He that committeth sin is of the Devil; for the Devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the Devil.
Page 359 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Page 359 - THE fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Page 275 - Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves...
Page 287 - My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken ; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 243 - He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
Page 531 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 298 - He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Page 57 - More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned; and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Page 531 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.