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... Roland , you must not let Jack have the best of the argument . " " Brother Austin , " replied the Captain , very for- mally , " Mr Jack , if I may take the liberty so to call him . " " You may indeed , " cried Uncle Jack . " Sir ...
... Roland , you must not let Jack have the best of the argument . " " Brother Austin , " replied the Captain , very for- mally , " Mr Jack , if I may take the liberty so to call him . " " You may indeed , " cried Uncle Jack . " Sir ...
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... Possibly , " said my father mildly . " I should like to hear what you have to say upon honour . I am sure it would very much edify us all . " CHAPTER II . MY UNCLE ROLAND'S DISCOURSE UPON HONOUR . A FAMILY PICTURE . 89.
... Possibly , " said my father mildly . " I should like to hear what you have to say upon honour . I am sure it would very much edify us all . " CHAPTER II . MY UNCLE ROLAND'S DISCOURSE UPON HONOUR . A FAMILY PICTURE . 89.
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A Family Picture Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. CHAPTER II . MY UNCLE ROLAND'S DISCOURSE UPON HONOUR . " GENTLEMEN , " began the Captain , at the distinct appeal thus made to him- " Gentlemen , God made . the earth , but man made the ...
A Family Picture Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton. CHAPTER II . MY UNCLE ROLAND'S DISCOURSE UPON HONOUR . " GENTLEMEN , " began the Captain , at the distinct appeal thus made to him- " Gentlemen , God made . the earth , but man made the ...
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... Roland , " thumbs and hands are given to an Esquimaux , as well as to scholars and surgeons — and what the deuce are they the wiser for them ? Sirs , you cannot reduce us thus into mechanism . Look within . Man , I say , recreates ...
... Roland , " thumbs and hands are given to an Esquimaux , as well as to scholars and surgeons — and what the deuce are they the wiser for them ? Sirs , you cannot reduce us thus into mechanism . Look within . Man , I say , recreates ...
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... Roland restored it to its ribbon and its resting - place ) , " and no eye sees it , its value is yet greater in the thought that my country has not degraded the old and true principles of honour , by paying the soldier who fought for ...
... Roland restored it to its ribbon and its resting - place ) , " and no eye sees it , its value is yet greater in the thought that my country has not degraded the old and true principles of honour , by paying the soldier who fought for ...
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The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volume 1 Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Visualização integral - 1892 |
The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volume 1 Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Visualização integral - 1892 |
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amongst answered asked Austin Author Blackwood's Magazine bless brother brow called Captain Roland Caxton CHAPTER child cried Crown Octavo door drew earwigs Edition eyes face fancy Fanny Trevanion father Fcap felt fortune garden gentleman GEORGE HENRY LEWES Greek hand happy head heard heart heaven honour hurdy-gurdy Keith Johnston Kitty knew Lady Ellinor laugh leave lived London look Lord Rainsforth ma'am member of Parliament mind Miss Trevanion mother nature never once pause Philhellenic Pisistratus poor Primmins Puss in Boots quoth round saffron Savoyard scholar seemed sigh Sir Sedley Beaudesert Sisty smile speak Squills stood STRANGER talk tell thing thought tion took truth turned Uncle Jack Uncle Roland Vivian voice volume walk WILLIAM BLACKWOOD William Caxton window woman word young youth
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Página 193 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Página 331 - He had, to a morbid excess, that desire to rise which is vulgarly called ambition, but no wish for the esteem or the love of his species; only the hard wish to succeed— not shine, not serve— succeed, that he might have the right to despise a world which galled his self-conceit.
Página 25 - I have narrated, he gave me one far exceeding in value those usually bestowed on children, — it was a beautiful large domino-box in cut ivory, painted and gilt. This domino-box was my delight. I was never weary of playing at dominoes with Mrs. Primmins, and I slept with the box under my pillow. "Ah...
Página 331 - Caxtons.' Passion, in him, comprehended -many of the worst emotions which militate against human happiness. You could not contradict him, but you raised quick choler; you could not speak of wealth, but his cheek paled with gnawing envy. The astonishing natural advantages of this poor boy— his beauty, his readiness, the daring spirit that breathed around him like a fiery atmosphere— had raised his constitutional self-confidence into an arrogance that turned his very claims to admiration into prejudices...
Página 40 - A more lying, round-about, puzzleheaded delusion than that by which we confuse the clear instincts of truth in our accursed system of spelling was never concocted by the father of falsehood.