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... learned or ignorant , asked his advice , it was given with not more humility than wisdom . In the common affairs of life , he seemed incapable of acting for him- self ; he left all to my mother ; or , if taken unawares , was pretty sure ...
... learned or ignorant , asked his advice , it was given with not more humility than wisdom . In the common affairs of life , he seemed incapable of acting for him- self ; he left all to my mother ; or , if taken unawares , was pretty sure ...
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... learned a father , I thrived and flourished , and learned to spell , and make pothooks , under the joint care of my mother and Dame Primmins . This last was one of an old race fast dying away - the race of old faithful servants - the ...
... learned a father , I thrived and flourished , and learned to spell , and make pothooks , under the joint care of my mother and Dame Primmins . This last was one of an old race fast dying away - the race of old faithful servants - the ...
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... learned from books . You knew me only as a harmless creature , who was happy enough to please your fancy . By - and - by you discovered that I was no worse for all the quartos that have transmigrated into ideas within me - ideas that ...
... learned from books . You knew me only as a harmless creature , who was happy enough to please your fancy . By - and - by you discovered that I was no worse for all the quartos that have transmigrated into ideas within me - ideas that ...
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... mother , when she had learned all ; " and your poor domino - box that you were so fond of ! We will go back to - morrow , and buy it back , if it costs us double . " " Shall we buy it back , Pisistratus ? " 28 THE CAXTONS :
... mother , when she had learned all ; " and your poor domino - box that you were so fond of ! We will go back to - morrow , and buy it back , if it costs us double . " " Shall we buy it back , Pisistratus ? " 28 THE CAXTONS :
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... learned to read with ease , and to write with some fluency , and I already began to imitate , to reproduce . Strange tales , akin to those I had gleaned from fairyland - rude songs , modelled from such verse - books as fell into my ...
... learned to read with ease , and to write with some fluency , and I already began to imitate , to reproduce . Strange tales , akin to those I had gleaned from fairyland - rude songs , modelled from such verse - books as fell into my ...
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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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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.