Little Classics, Volume 3Rossiter Johnson Houghton, Mifflin, 1875 |
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... less abstract : Let us sup- pose a game of draughts where the pieces are reduced to four kings , and where , of course , no oversight is to be expected . It is obvious that here the victory can be decided ( the players being at all ...
... less abstract : Let us sup- pose a game of draughts where the pieces are reduced to four kings , and where , of course , no oversight is to be expected . It is obvious that here the victory can be decided ( the players being at all ...
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... less embarrassed than his own , I was permitted to be at the expense of renting , and furnishing in a style which suited the rather fantastic gloom of our common temper , a time - eaten and grotesque mansion , long deserted through ...
... less embarrassed than his own , I was permitted to be at the expense of renting , and furnishing in a style which suited the rather fantastic gloom of our common temper , a time - eaten and grotesque mansion , long deserted through ...
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... with the key inside , was forced open ) , a spectacle presented itself which struck every one present not less with horror than with aston- ishment . " The apartment was in the wildest disorder , the 18 LITTLE CLASSICS .
... with the key inside , was forced open ) , a spectacle presented itself which struck every one present not less with horror than with aston- ishment . " The apartment was in the wildest disorder , the 18 LITTLE CLASSICS .
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... less shattered . The left tibia much splintered , as well as all the ribs of the left side . Whole body dreadfully bruised and discolored . It was not possible to say how the injuries had been inflicted . A heavy club of wood , or a ...
... less shattered . The left tibia much splintered , as well as all the ribs of the left side . Whole body dreadfully bruised and discolored . It was not possible to say how the injuries had been inflicted . A heavy club of wood , or a ...
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... less likely to give them speech than men ; but it is only because they are more trammelled by an education of reserve , and by inborn delicacy and timidity ; it is not because they feel them less . This girl , however , was so frank in ...
... less likely to give them speech than men ; but it is only because they are more trammelled by an education of reserve , and by inborn delicacy and timidity ; it is not because they feel them less . This girl , however , was so frank in ...
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Page 11 - ... among writers on morals. Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Page 182 - From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine ; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 200 - Before us lay an avenue, straight as an arrow, six hundred yards, perhaps, in length; and the umbrageous trees, which rose in a regular line from either side, meeting high overhead, gave to it the character of a cathedral aisle.
Page 13 - I could not help remarking and admiring (although from his rich ideality I had been prepared to expect it) a peculiar analytic ability in Dupin. He seemed, too, to take an eager delight in its exercise — if not exactly in its display — and did not hesitate to confess the pleasure thus derived.
Page 29 - To look at a star by glances— to view it in a side-long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions of the retina (more susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the interior), is to behold the star distinctly— is to have the best appreciation of its lustre— a lustre which grows dim just in proportion as we turn our vision fully upon it.
Page 174 - It would have been inhuman in our philosopher to have clouded, even with a doubt, the sunshine of this belief. His discourse, indeed, was very remote from metaphysical disquisition, or religious controversy.
Page 174 - Why should not the same thing be said of religion ? Trust me, I feel it in the same way, an energy, an inspiration, which I would not lose for all the blessings of sense or enjoyments of the world; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from God, adds the blessing of sentiment to that of sensation in every good thing I possess; and when calamities overtake me, and I have had my share, it confers a dignity on...
Page 177 - La Roche!" exclaimed he in reply. "Alas! it was she indeed!" The appearance of surprise and grief which his countenance assumed attracted the notice of the peasant with whom he talked. He came up closer to Mr. ; '• I perceive, sir, you were acquainted with Mademoiselle La Roche.
Page 8 - ... the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound.