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Page xxix
... less in advocating practical extensions of State interference than in attacking 1 Ruskin's friendly relations with Mr. Smith continued for many years , and a letter to Thackeray of December 21 , 1860 , shows no sign of vexation with his ...
... less in advocating practical extensions of State interference than in attacking 1 Ruskin's friendly relations with Mr. Smith continued for many years , and a letter to Thackeray of December 21 , 1860 , shows no sign of vexation with his ...
Page xxxviii
... less selfish to look upon one's self merely as a leaf on a tree than as an independent spirit , but it is much less pleasant . I don't say I have come to this - but all my work bears in that direc- tion . " And so , once more , to his ...
... less selfish to look upon one's self merely as a leaf on a tree than as an independent spirit , but it is much less pleasant . I don't say I have come to this - but all my work bears in that direc- tion . " And so , once more , to his ...
Page xlii
... less than cheerful in society , and when Carlyle comes to see him , and with some ladies , and a few favourite children , his spirits are exuberant . " He spent many happy and merry days during these years at Miss Bell's school at ...
... less than cheerful in society , and when Carlyle comes to see him , and with some ladies , and a few favourite children , his spirits are exuberant . " He spent many happy and merry days during these years at Miss Bell's school at ...
Page xlix
... less pertinacity , it would seem - he attacked in German Studer's Geologie der Schweiz and Goethe's Faust . The studies in the classics were in large measure addressed directly to his intention of resuming and completing his essays on ...
... less pertinacity , it would seem - he attacked in German Studer's Geologie der Schweiz and Goethe's Faust . The studies in the classics were in large measure addressed directly to his intention of resuming and completing his essays on ...
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... less happy than they have been- with your feelings ; nor am I without hope that if I get a house to please me here , a proper degree of feminine and maternal solicitude and curiosity may even , next year , prevail upon you to submit to ...
... less happy than they have been- with your feelings ; nor am I without hope that if I get a house to please me here , a proper degree of feminine and maternal solicitude and curiosity may even , next year , prevail upon you to submit to ...
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Page 352 - The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Page 559 - What shall we do then? 11 He answereth, and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none ; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
Page 389 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Page 452 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 563 - Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime. A wandering Harper, scorned and poor, He begged his bread from door to door, And tuned, to please a peasant's ear, The harp a king had loved to hear.
Page 452 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Page 281 - And God is able to make all grace abound toward you ; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work : 9 As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor : his righteousness remaineth for ever.
Page 352 - And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music. And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
Page 392 - For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies : and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Page 342 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.