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... reason , for he was extravagant and dissipated . My father never men- tioned his name , but my mother would sometimes tell me that he had ruined the family . That he I have , however , some faint notion of hearing my mother say , that ...
... reason , for he was extravagant and dissipated . My father never men- tioned his name , but my mother would sometimes tell me that he had ruined the family . That he I have , however , some faint notion of hearing my mother say , that ...
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... reason to be dis- pleased with me , for I learned little at school , and nothing at home , though he would now and then attempt to give me some insight into his business . As impressions of any kind are not very strong at the age of ...
... reason to be dis- pleased with me , for I learned little at school , and nothing at home , though he would now and then attempt to give me some insight into his business . As impressions of any kind are not very strong at the age of ...
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... reason alleged in the introductory paragraph . A person , whose name escapes me , had undertaken to paint a sign for an ale - house : it was to have been a lion , but the unfortunate artist produced a dog . On this awkward affair , one ...
... reason alleged in the introductory paragraph . A person , whose name escapes me , had undertaken to paint a sign for an ale - house : it was to have been a lion , but the unfortunate artist produced a dog . On this awkward affair , one ...
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... reasons ; first , because I had no paper ; and se- condly - perhaps I might be excused from going further ; but in truth I was afraid , for my master had already threatened me , for inadvertently hitch- ing the name of one of his ...
... reasons ; first , because I had no paper ; and se- condly - perhaps I might be excused from going further ; but in truth I was afraid , for my master had already threatened me , for inadvertently hitch- ing the name of one of his ...
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... reasons . In his 7th Satire , after speaking of Quintilian , Juvenal adds , " Si fortuna volet , fies de rhetore consul : " Si volet hæc eadem fies de consule rhetor . " Which , taking it for a proverbial expression , I have loosely ren ...
... reasons . In his 7th Satire , after speaking of Quintilian , Juvenal adds , " Si fortuna volet , fies de rhetore consul : " Si volet hæc eadem fies de consule rhetor . " Which , taking it for a proverbial expression , I have loosely ren ...
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Page 195 - He burneth part thereof in the fire, with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast and is satisfied; yea, he warmeth himself and saith, "Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire." And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down unto it and worshippeth it and prayeth unto it and saith, "Deliver me; for thou art my God.
Page 316 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Page 384 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Page 443 - How many are the days of the years of thy life? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have been the days of the years of my life...
Page 218 - Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise ; To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind.
Page 12 - As this is the first passage, in which the names of patron and client occur, it may not be amiss to say a few words on the relative situation of two classes of men, which comprehended nearly all the citizens of Rome.
Page x - Algebra, given to me by a young woman, who had found it in a lodginghouse. I considered it as a treasure; but it was a treasure locked up; for it supposed the reader to be well acquainted with simple equation, and I knew nothing of the matter.
Page 10 - tis so concluded on. Ham. There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows, — Whom I will trust, as I will adders fang'd, — They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way, And marshal me to knavery: Let it work; For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar...
Page xi - ... with favours more substantial : little collections were now and then made, and I have received sixpence in an evening. To one who had long lived in the absolute want of money, such a resource seemed a Peruvian mine : I furnished myself by degrees with paper, &c. and what was of more importance, with books of geometry, and of the higher branches of algebra, which I cautiously concealed. Poetry, even at this time, was no amusement of mine : it was subservient to other purposes ; and I only had...
Page 51 - Eye hath not seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath it entered into the Heart of Man, to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.