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" Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed You can send a boy to college but you can't make him think. "
The Nic-nac: Or, Literary Cabinet - Page 48
1823
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Annals of the Fine Arts, Volume 4

Art - 1820 - 416 pages
...;" and their unqualified commendations* are not likely to assist in arriving at the ninth beatitude (blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed). Such praise unaccompanied by any remarks, which discover a capability of appreciating, what is pretended...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Part 3

English literature - 1833 - 554 pages
...Shakspeare never drew. But we did not suppose we should have seen a female Ellistpn, and Swift says, " Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." On the concluding night. Mr. Percy Farren delivered the following Address : — exception) have received...
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The Nic-Nac; or, oracle of knowledge, Volume 1

1822 - 430 pages
...amongst the light reading so much in vogue at this period of the year, and contribute some amusement to the lovers of fun. At any rate, the reproach of...and extravagant it may be, the more calculated it is lo produce the desired effect — a laugh. RIGOUM FUMDOS. 1. Why is a clergyman unlikely to be an impartial...
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Metropolitan Improvements; Or London in the Nineteenth Century: Displayed in ...

Architecture - 1828 - 512 pages
...unqualified commendations, says my friend, are not likely to assist in arriving at the ninth beatitude, " Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." Therefore, as I before hinted, with all these merits, I consider Regent Street to possess many blemishes...
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Metropolitan Improvements; Or, London in the Nineteenth Century: Being a ...

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - Architecture - 1827 - 696 pages
...unqualified commendations, says my friend, are not likely to assist in arriving at the ninth beatitude, " Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." Therefore, as I before hinted, with all these merits, I consider Regent Street to possess many blemishes...
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Metropolitan Improvements, Or London in the 19th Century

1833 - 536 pages
...unqualified commendations, says my friend, are not likely to assist in arriving at the ninth beatitude, " Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." Therefore, as I before hinted, with all these merits, I consider Regent Street to possess many blemishes...
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Some account of the late D. P. W., ... with extracts from his letters

David Pike WATTS - 1841 - 250 pages
...sincerity. You may have read or heard the facetious Swift's (would he had not been a dean .') risible benediction, ' Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.' But to apply this strange saying to some reference to the burthen of your letter ; do not wonder at...
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Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 11

1844 - 848 pages
...TAIT, 107, Prince's Street, Edinburgh. EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. MARCH, 1844. THE OPENING OF THE SESSION. " BLESSED are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." This is a beatitude to which our rulers have generously helped us for a :rood many years past ; and...
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Travels in Europe and the East: A Year in England, Scotland, Ireland...

Samuel Irenĉus Prime - Europe - 1855 - 424 pages
...Sailor — Liverpool and Dr. Baffles. IF I left Scotland with regret, I parted from Ireland with more. Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed ; yet I expected little in Ireland, and found so much more than I anticipated, that I was indeed agreeably...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 26

1866 - 882 pages
...happen. And this is real life, you know." "Yes; and so was Dan Bent's case in real life. He reformed." "'Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed,' " quoted Magg:c gravely. I look at the bright young face, and then catching the sweetness of Cora's...
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