The Listener, Volume 1James Nisbet, 1830 - Education |
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... pleased to take the benefit and contribute nothing . I have wondered often how all this befalls - But now methinks I have stolen a key that may unlock the mystery . Little Julia was to be seen and not heard that is to say , she was to ...
... pleased to take the benefit and contribute nothing . I have wondered often how all this befalls - But now methinks I have stolen a key that may unlock the mystery . Little Julia was to be seen and not heard that is to say , she was to ...
Page 42
... pleased to pause and look around , we may not learn a useful lesson from something that is passing among the natural objects that encompass us . The garden that morning was very gaily dressed -The Moss - rose drooped its head ...
... pleased to pause and look around , we may not learn a useful lesson from something that is passing among the natural objects that encompass us . The garden that morning was very gaily dressed -The Moss - rose drooped its head ...
Page 65
... when they happened to be assailed with what they were pleased to call fear- but as fear has always respect to danger , fancied , real , or possible , I should prefer > to find some other name for it , because THE LISTENER . 65.
... when they happened to be assailed with what they were pleased to call fear- but as fear has always respect to danger , fancied , real , or possible , I should prefer > to find some other name for it , because THE LISTENER . 65.
Page 67
... pleased at last to go to rest , and generously allowed me to do the same . I ventured in the morning to suggest that the indulgence of unreasonable fears was not the con- comitant of a strong mind , and did in itself much tend to weaken ...
... pleased at last to go to rest , and generously allowed me to do the same . I ventured in the morning to suggest that the indulgence of unreasonable fears was not the con- comitant of a strong mind , and did in itself much tend to weaken ...
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... pleased us before we began to love . them our friendship therefore is a purchase , not a gift ; a part of the price is paid , and the rest is in expectation . If we examine the movements of our own hearts we must be sure this is the ...
... pleased us before we began to love . them our friendship therefore is a purchase , not a gift ; a part of the price is paid , and the rest is in expectation . If we examine the movements of our own hearts we must be sure this is the ...
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