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... happy England . He had scarcely landed , when a villain saw the friendless boy , asked him to eat and drink , and play with his chil- dren , and then murdered him to sell his body . Such is the nature of error with respect to man ...
... happy England . He had scarcely landed , when a villain saw the friendless boy , asked him to eat and drink , and play with his chil- dren , and then murdered him to sell his body . Such is the nature of error with respect to man ...
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... in fetching more water to his pond , always thirsty , yet always carrying a bucket of water in his hand ; watching early and late " I should die happy , if I were to catch the drops of rain , gaping after every 74 NOTE ( G ) .
... in fetching more water to his pond , always thirsty , yet always carrying a bucket of water in his hand ; watching early and late " I should die happy , if I were to catch the drops of rain , gaping after every 74 NOTE ( G ) .
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... happy man , a thorough master of business , and had acquired an hundred thousand pair of boots and spurs when he died . The husbandman that tilleth the ground is employ- ed in an honest business that is necessary in life , and very ...
... happy man , a thorough master of business , and had acquired an hundred thousand pair of boots and spurs when he died . The husbandman that tilleth the ground is employ- ed in an honest business that is necessary in life , and very ...
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... happy in ways of ambition , by raising himself to some imaginary heights above other people , this is truly an invention of happiness which has no foundation in nature , but is as mere a cheat of our own making , as if a man should ...
... happy in ways of ambition , by raising himself to some imaginary heights above other people , this is truly an invention of happiness which has no foundation in nature , but is as mere a cheat of our own making , as if a man should ...
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... happy , while I got peace for myself , to procure it unto others . For that contemplation I made use of four books , — the half - wild country where I found myself affording but few more . The first and chief was the Holy Scripture ...
... happy , while I got peace for myself , to procure it unto others . For that contemplation I made use of four books , — the half - wild country where I found myself affording but few more . The first and chief was the Holy Scripture ...
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Page 236 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Page 107 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and...
Page 43 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 188 - And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said. There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep.
Page 123 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Page 145 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her: 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy...
Page 130 - We have also large and various orchards and gardens, wherein we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground and soil, proper for divers trees and herbs...
Page 119 - We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time, infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no nor of the kings or great personages of much later years ; for the originals cannot...
Page 121 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 71 - But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse and noise, and toil, he ever fled ; Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps ; but to the forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head", Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep untrodden groves his footsteps led. There would he wander wild, till Phoebus' beam, Shot from the western cliff, released the weary team.