The new cyclopædia of illustrative anecdote [by E.S.P.].1872 |
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... conversation , to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments , tales with reasons , asking of questions with telling of opinions , and jest with earnest ; for it is a dull thing to tire , and , as we say now ...
... conversation , to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments , tales with reasons , asking of questions with telling of opinions , and jest with earnest ; for it is a dull thing to tire , and , as we say now ...
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... conversation with him of more than half - an - hour . His Highness entered immediately into his views , and confessed that he saw reason for holding the meeting on Sunday more than any other day of the week , and voluntarily pro- posed ...
... conversation with him of more than half - an - hour . His Highness entered immediately into his views , and confessed that he saw reason for holding the meeting on Sunday more than any other day of the week , and voluntarily pro- posed ...
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... conversation ; and , indeed , I have set down the substance of what you have said this last hour or two . " The well - timed ridicule had its desired effect ; and these noblemen , fully sensible of its force , immediately quitted their ...
... conversation ; and , indeed , I have set down the substance of what you have said this last hour or two . " The well - timed ridicule had its desired effect ; and these noblemen , fully sensible of its force , immediately quitted their ...
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... conversation with them , and was much commended for his powers of memory . " Tis true , gentlemen , " observed he , " that fame has given me the report of being a memorist ; and , if you please , I will give you a specimen of it . " The ...
... conversation with them , and was much commended for his powers of memory . " Tis true , gentlemen , " observed he , " that fame has given me the report of being a memorist ; and , if you please , I will give you a specimen of it . " The ...
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... conversation in the The Elector of Saxony offered him Royal Exchange , several persons the produce of a mine at Sneberg ; expressed great sorrow ; when a but he nobly refused it , " lest , " foreigner who was present said , said he ...
... conversation in the The Elector of Saxony offered him Royal Exchange , several persons the produce of a mine at Sneberg ; expressed great sorrow ; when a but he nobly refused it , " lest , " foreigner who was present said , said he ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 543 - BLESSED is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Seite 229 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Seite 363 - I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am, there ye may be also.
Seite 18 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Seite 329 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Seite 19 - But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
Seite 196 - He married my sisters with five pound or twenty nobles a-piece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours; and some alms he gave to the poor, and all this he did of the said farm.
Seite 477 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Seite 479 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Seite 488 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee...