Tales of My Landlord: 1st ser, Volúmenes1-2Samuel H. Parker, 1834 |
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... mind to see them . With all my heart , answered the host ; and going to his chamber , he brought out a little old cloke - bag , with a padlock and chain to it , and opening it , he took out three large volumes , and some manuscript ...
... mind to see them . With all my heart , answered the host ; and going to his chamber , he brought out a little old cloke - bag , with a padlock and chain to it , and opening it , he took out three large volumes , and some manuscript ...
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... mind congenial to its uncouth tabernacle . A jealous , misanthropical , and irritable tem- per , was his prominent characteristic . The sense of his deformity haunted him like a phantom . And the insults and scorn to which this exposed ...
... mind congenial to its uncouth tabernacle . A jealous , misanthropical , and irritable tem- per , was his prominent characteristic . The sense of his deformity haunted him like a phantom . And the insults and scorn to which this exposed ...
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... mind , however , and was finally interred in the common burial - ground of Manor parish . The author has invested Wise Elshie with some quali- ties which made him appear , in the eyes of the vulgar , a man possessed of supernatural ...
... mind , however , and was finally interred in the common burial - ground of Manor parish . The author has invested Wise Elshie with some quali- ties which made him appear , in the eyes of the vulgar , a man possessed of supernatural ...
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... mind was thrown off its just bias by a predominant degree of self - love and self - opinion , galled by the sense of ridicule and contempt , and avenging it- self upon society , in idea at least , by a gloomy misan- thropy . David ...
... mind was thrown off its just bias by a predominant degree of self - love and self - opinion , galled by the sense of ridicule and contempt , and avenging it- self upon society , in idea at least , by a gloomy misan- thropy . David ...
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... mind and to the body , although he is known to partake of the latter in a very moderate degree ; and the party with which my landlord was associated , continued to sit late in the evening , seasoning their liquor with many choice tales ...
... mind and to the body , although he is known to partake of the latter in a very moderate degree ; and the party with which my landlord was associated , continued to sit late in the evening , seasoning their liquor with many choice tales ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 30 - And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; And they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: And all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour And thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Página 161 - Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Página 30 - Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered : for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
Página 165 - ... to soften obstinacy; and whose very powers of intellect have been confounded by hearing the same dull lesson repeated a hundred times by rote, and only varied by the various blunders of the reciters. Even the flowers of classic genius, with which his solitary fancy is most gratified...
Página 165 - Preliminary. \Vhy seeks he with unwearied toil Through death's dim walks to urge his way, Reclaim his long-asserted spoil, And lead oblivion into day ? Langhorne.
Página 28 - ... liberated captives quickly flew abroad with many exaggerations among the victorious army. The reports on the subject were various ; but it was universally agreed, that young Morton of Milnwood, the son of the stout soldier of the Covenant, Silas Morton, together with the precious Gabriel Kettledrummle, and a singular devout Christian woman, whom many thought as good as himself at extracting a doctrine or an use, whether of terror or consolation, had arrived to support the good old cause, with...
Página 268 - Zephyrs play in prosperous gales And Fortune's favour fills the swelling sails ; But would forsake the ship, and make the shore, When the winds wHistle, and the tempests roar...
Página 232 - Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine * for dighting the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence, by raising wind for your leddyship's ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting patiently for whatever dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send upon the sheelingliill.
Página 217 - The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones ; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
Página 2 - There arrows of the bow he brake, The shield, the sword, the war. More glorious thou than hills of prey, More excellent art far.