A Thousand and One Gems of English ProseG. Routledge, 1872 - 534 sider |
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Side 4
... . Certainly , great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy ; for if they judge by their own feeling , they cannot find it ; but if they think with themselves what other men think A THOUSAND AND ONE GEMS.
... . Certainly , great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy ; for if they judge by their own feeling , they cannot find it ; but if they think with themselves what other men think A THOUSAND AND ONE GEMS.
Side 5
... happy , as it were by report , when perhaps they find the contrary within . For they are the first that find their own griefs ; though they be the last that find their own faults . But power to do good is the true and lawful end of ...
... happy , as it were by report , when perhaps they find the contrary within . For they are the first that find their own griefs ; though they be the last that find their own faults . But power to do good is the true and lawful end of ...
Side 9
... happy and glorious a thing is a saint ! Where is now their body of sin , which wearied themselves and those about them ? Where are now our different judgments , reproach- ful names , divided spirits , exasperated passions , strange ...
... happy and glorious a thing is a saint ! Where is now their body of sin , which wearied themselves and those about them ? Where are now our different judgments , reproach- ful names , divided spirits , exasperated passions , strange ...
Side 22
... happy those ladies and religious dames characterised in the 2nd of Timothy , c . iii . 5 , 6 , who can have such self - denying , thriving , able men for their confessors ! and thrice happy those fami- lies where they vouchsafe to take ...
... happy those ladies and religious dames characterised in the 2nd of Timothy , c . iii . 5 , 6 , who can have such self - denying , thriving , able men for their confessors ! and thrice happy those fami- lies where they vouchsafe to take ...
Side 25
... happy people , who are so fond of long life , would not like very well . This would utterly undo our young prodigal heirs , were their hopes of succession three or four hundred years off , who , as short as life is now , think their ...
... happy people , who are so fond of long life , would not like very well . This would utterly undo our young prodigal heirs , were their hopes of succession three or four hundred years off , who , as short as life is now , think their ...
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