Earnest lives; biographies of remarkable men and women, compiled and selected by the editor of 'Treasury of modern biography'.1881 |
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Seite 178 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Seite 218 - The Young Men of the Bible. A Series of Papers, Biographical and Suggestive. By Rev. JOSEPH A. COLLIER. 4. The Blade and the Ear: A Book for Young Men.
Seite 52 - Your friends, believing I can do you some service at your trial, I am extremely willing to try ; my resolution will hold out — pray let yours. But it may be the Court will not let me ; however, do you let me try.
Seite 59 - I know I have deserved my punishment, and will be silent under it, but yet secretly my heart mourns too sadly, I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion, and sharer of all my joys and sorrows. I want him to talk with, to walk with, to eat and sleep with ; all these things are irksome to me now ; the day unwelcome, and the night so too ; all company and meals I would avoid if it might be...
Seite 34 - ... to secure his person, lest he should head the people, who now grew very weary of his bondage '. But though it was certainly confirmed to the...
Seite 20 - married her as soon as she was able to quit the chamber, when the priest and all that saw her were affrighted to look on her. But God,' she adds, with a not ungraceful vanity, 'recompensed his justice and constancy, by restoring her as well as before.
Seite 20 - It was not her face he loved, her honour and her virtue were his mistresses; and these (like Pygmalion's) images of his own making, for he polished and gave form to what he found with all the roughness of the quarry about it; but meeting with a compliant subject for his own wise government, he found as much satisfaction as he gave, and never had occasion to number his marriage among his infelicities.
Seite 13 - I was not at that time convinced of the vanity of conversation which was not scandalously wicked.
Seite 185 - We have, in the morning, walked again and again, and ever with new delight, along its mystic tube, and, at midnight, with its distinguished architect, pondered over the marvellous sights which it discloses, — the satellites, and belts, and rings of Saturn,— the old and new ring, which is advancing with its crest of waters to the body of the planet, — the rocks, and mountains, and valleys, and extinct volcanoes of the moon, — the crescent of Venus, with its mountainous outline, — the systems...
Seite 18 - Hutchinson, pretending civility to conduct her home, made her stay till the supper was ended, of which he ate no more, now only longing for that sight which he had with such perplexity expected. This at length he obtained ; but his heart, being prepossessed with his own fancy, was not free to discern how little there was in her to answer so great an expectation.