Then and NowHutchinson, 1901 - 333 páginas |
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... remember and to avert this miserable distress , not only by a thoughtful caution as to the words which they speak in the hearing of their children , but by forbidding their servants to tell them these idle tales . Keble has said that ...
... remember and to avert this miserable distress , not only by a thoughtful caution as to the words which they speak in the hearing of their children , but by forbidding their servants to tell them these idle tales . Keble has said that ...
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... remember a remarkable exit . At a tenants ' ball given at a great country house to celebrate the coming of age of the heir , a small lady of middle age and respectable appearance , very simply and neatly attired in mourning Babies and ...
... remember a remarkable exit . At a tenants ' ball given at a great country house to celebrate the coming of age of the heir , a small lady of middle age and respectable appearance , very simply and neatly attired in mourning Babies and ...
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... remember the time when no man engaged in buying and selling , much less in manual labour , was regarded as a gentleman , and when they only assumed the title of " esquire , " whose coats of arms were to be found in the Heralds ' Office ...
... remember the time when no man engaged in buying and selling , much less in manual labour , was regarded as a gentleman , and when they only assumed the title of " esquire , " whose coats of arms were to be found in the Heralds ' Office ...
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... , but had met with no success . The I remember incidents in illustration . The younger son of a nobleman and a son of his bailiff went out together as emigrants . When they returned , twenty years 3 Gentle and other Men 33.
... , but had met with no success . The I remember incidents in illustration . The younger son of a nobleman and a son of his bailiff went out together as emigrants . When they returned , twenty years 3 Gentle and other Men 33.
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... remember that when I was a boy at school it was the custom in most of our provincial towns , before the introduction of the corn exchange , for the buyers and sellers of agricultural produce to assemble once a week , at midday , in ...
... remember that when I was a boy at school it was the custom in most of our provincial towns , before the introduction of the corn exchange , for the buyers and sellers of agricultural produce to assemble once a week , at midday , in ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration amusements apostle spoons asked Audi alteram partem ball beautiful Belgravia believe Bicester biretta bishop boys Caunton cheerful Christian Church clergy congregation cricket delight desire dinner drink drunkenness duty England evil excellent father Florence Nightingale football garden gentleman George Stephenson give golf happy hear heard hearers heart honour horse hospitals hounds ignorance impression Joe Guy John Leech knew labourer lady laity live Lord master mind neighbours never noble occasion parish persons played poor port wine prayer preach preacher present Queen regarded remarked remember replied seemed seen sermons servants solitary snipe sometimes sorrow speak spirit squire star of freedom suggested sweet sympathy teetotal teetotaller tell temperance things thought told village voice wine women words worship young Zachary Macaulay
Passagens conhecidas
Página 54 - I have taken notice of it, has never in all that time asked anything of me for himself, though he is every day soliciting me for something in behalf of one or other of my tenants, his parishioners. There has not been a lawsuit in the parish since he has lived among them; if any dispute arises they apply themselves to him for the decision; if they do- not acquiesce in his judgment, which I think never happened above once, or twice at most, they appeal to me.
Página 283 - For the love of God is broader Than the measures of man's mind, And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind...
Página 220 - And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
Página 111 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 77 - What years, i' faith ? Vio. About your years, my lord. Duke. Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
Página 85 - But go to ! thy love Shall chant itself its own beatitudes, After its own life-working. A child's kiss, Set on thy sighing lips, shall make thee glad: A poor man, served by thee, shall make thee rich ; An old man, helped by thee, shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
Página 59 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Página 3 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted...
Página 58 - It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner.