The Century: 1898, כרך 57Century Company, 1899 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 44
... close my eyes and take care of my remains . His dutiful behavior to- wards me , and his diligence and fidelity in busi- ness , are both pleasing and useful to me . His con- duct , as my private secretary , has been unexcep- tionable ...
... close my eyes and take care of my remains . His dutiful behavior to- wards me , and his diligence and fidelity in busi- ness , are both pleasing and useful to me . His con- duct , as my private secretary , has been unexcep- tionable ...
עמוד 60
... close the book . " Did it not sometimes fill you with horror to think that you must live forever ? " I asked . " Yes , " he answered ; " that has happened to me ; but such feelings have long , long passed away . If you could have lived ...
... close the book . " Did it not sometimes fill you with horror to think that you must live forever ? " I asked . " Yes , " he answered ; " that has happened to me ; but such feelings have long , long passed away . If you could have lived ...
עמוד 61
... close of the thirteenth century I was living in Florence , being at that time mar- ried to a lady of wealthy family , and she in- sisted upon my having my portrait painted by Cimabue , who , as you know , was the mas- ter of Giotto ...
... close of the thirteenth century I was living in Florence , being at that time mar- ried to a lady of wealthy family , and she in- sisted upon my having my portrait painted by Cimabue , who , as you know , was the mas- ter of Giotto ...
עמוד 62
... close- cropped sward ; then came great oak - trees , shadowy still in their spring foliage ; and then corn - land and meadow - land , in long green waves of rising tilth and pasture , as far as a man could see . The sun was setting ...
... close- cropped sward ; then came great oak - trees , shadowy still in their spring foliage ; and then corn - land and meadow - land , in long green waves of rising tilth and pasture , as far as a man could see . The sun was setting ...
עמוד 65
... close . If the great earl , Robert of Gloucester , had deigned to bestow a word upon her , instead of looking through her with his beautiful calm blue eyes at an imaginary landscape beyond , her impressions of life at the em- press's ...
... close . If the great earl , Robert of Gloucester , had deigned to bestow a word upon her , instead of looking through her with his beautiful calm blue eyes at an imaginary landscape beyond , her impressions of life at the em- press's ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 138 - Who, doomed to go in company with pain, And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
עמוד 505 - AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his Eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore ; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
עמוד 397 - ... that if he would give me, weekly, half the money he paid for my board, I would board myself. He instantly agreed to it, and I presently found that I could save half what he paid me.
עמוד 405 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the coppers.
עמוד 514 - Here is my creed. I believe in one God, the creator of the universe. That He governs it by His providence. That He ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to Him is doing good to His other children. That the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this.
עמוד 399 - ... the best school of philosophy, morality, and politics that then existed in the province; for our queries, which were read the week preceding their discussion, put us upon reading with attention...
עמוד 396 - I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way, since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
עמוד 397 - ... which I was careful to return soon and clean. Often I sat up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.
עמוד 515 - Being in conducting me prosperously through a long life, I have no doubt of its continuance in the next, though without the smallest conceit of meriting such goodness.
עמוד 396 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read ) and the opinion of all his friends that I should certainly make a good scholar encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin, too...