Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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Page 31
... happiness by becoming an amiable fool . By much effort the classic states reached a fair rational potency . So great was it that it consumed in dying fully seven hundred years . As by the magical and miraculous the dark ages came , so ...
... happiness by becoming an amiable fool . By much effort the classic states reached a fair rational potency . So great was it that it consumed in dying fully seven hundred years . As by the magical and miraculous the dark ages came , so ...
Page 64
... happiness for the greatest num- ber . He is not a critic of style and speech only , but he is somewhat familiar with the needs and capabilities of the human family . All this wide survey of the human wants and condition must be ...
... happiness for the greatest num- ber . He is not a critic of style and speech only , but he is somewhat familiar with the needs and capabilities of the human family . All this wide survey of the human wants and condition must be ...
Page 75
... happiness of the two fortunate hearts . For these two hearts the clouds float dreamily and grow red in the dawn and in the twilight . The grass and violets have no end other than to make a carpet for the Juliet . When books or ora- tors ...
... happiness of the two fortunate hearts . For these two hearts the clouds float dreamily and grow red in the dawn and in the twilight . The grass and violets have no end other than to make a carpet for the Juliet . When books or ora- tors ...
Page 77
... happiness and their troubles Bacon was far away . Life was made up of discords between great families ; of fights and feasts , battles , duels , murders , wed- dings , funerals . Each town contained only one or two great families . It ...
... happiness and their troubles Bacon was far away . Life was made up of discords between great families ; of fights and feasts , battles , duels , murders , wed- dings , funerals . Each town contained only one or two great families . It ...
Page 86
... happiness in commerce , but not being happy there it entered zealously upon the study of the law , but his mind was like the instrument of Anakreon - able to play love - tunes only . Anakreon says : " I did wish to sing of Atrides And ...
... happiness in commerce , but not being happy there it entered zealously upon the study of the law , but his mind was like the instrument of Anakreon - able to play love - tunes only . Anakreon says : " I did wish to sing of Atrides And ...
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