Handy-book of Literary CuriositiesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1892 - 1104 pages |
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... present , none without excuse . " And every language furnishes examples to support this : e.g. , the Greek , Friends living far away are no friends ; " the Latin , " He that is absent will not be the heir ; " the Spanish , " Absence is ...
... present , none without excuse . " And every language furnishes examples to support this : e.g. , the Greek , Friends living far away are no friends ; " the Latin , " He that is absent will not be the heir ; " the Spanish , " Absence is ...
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... present republic and its predecessor by the follow- ing paraphrase : " Work , more work , and always work ! " ( " Du travail , encore du travail , et toujours du travail ! " ) — Speech at banquet to General Hoche , June 24 , 1872. See ...
... present republic and its predecessor by the follow- ing paraphrase : " Work , more work , and always work ! " ( " Du travail , encore du travail , et toujours du travail ! " ) — Speech at banquet to General Hoche , June 24 , 1872. See ...
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... present century matters were very nearly as we find them now . The Lon- don Times and the Morning Post , started modestly enough in the last quarter of the eighteenth century , were beginning to make themselves felt as powers in the ...
... present century matters were very nearly as we find them now . The Lon- don Times and the Morning Post , started modestly enough in the last quarter of the eighteenth century , were beginning to make themselves felt as powers in the ...
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... present day . There is an opulence of phrase also which would indicate equal opulence of pocket , were personals charged for at the ruinous rates now current . Leaving out the question of expense , a jilted suitor of to - day would ...
... present day . There is an opulence of phrase also which would indicate equal opulence of pocket , were personals charged for at the ruinous rates now current . Leaving out the question of expense , a jilted suitor of to - day would ...
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... present century , into an art that taxes all the creative facul- ties of the human mind . Their forerunners of past ages trusted merely to They used up all the laudatory Their successors of the resources of a gorgeous vocabulary ...
... present century , into an art that taxes all the creative facul- ties of the human mind . Their forerunners of past ages trusted merely to They used up all the laudatory Their successors of the resources of a gorgeous vocabulary ...
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Page 739 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 711 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 579 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too; We've fought the Bear before, and while Britons shall be true The Russians shall not have Constantinople.
Page 659 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 197 - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 109 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Page 739 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page 616 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 301 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 250 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.