Hogg's Instructor, Volúmenes9-10James Hogg, 1852 |
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... person had imparted a graceful rotundity ) a smart push , that set him swinging from side to side in a manner which must have been far from agreeable . The motion awoke him , and , putting his head forth , he looked about . Soon ...
... person had imparted a graceful rotundity ) a smart push , that set him swinging from side to side in a manner which must have been far from agreeable . The motion awoke him , and , putting his head forth , he looked about . Soon ...
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... person of this character will hold opinions , which he has long cherished , in opposition to arguments which , to unbiassed reason , clearly refutes them , or he will persist in a licentious course , which he has long pur- sued ...
... person of this character will hold opinions , which he has long cherished , in opposition to arguments which , to unbiassed reason , clearly refutes them , or he will persist in a licentious course , which he has long pur- sued ...
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... person likely to suit them , as they were in real distress . Mrs Weston curtseyed , and replied in the negative , when a sudden idea seemed to rike ber , and , looking towards Patty , she spoke apart with the lady . Presently she turned ...
... person likely to suit them , as they were in real distress . Mrs Weston curtseyed , and replied in the negative , when a sudden idea seemed to rike ber , and , looking towards Patty , she spoke apart with the lady . Presently she turned ...
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... persons . And he verily thinks , were he to live over his life again , he could not only , with God's grace , serve him ... person great instruction ; and , since nothing below man can so think , man in being thoughtless must needs fall ...
... persons . And he verily thinks , were he to live over his life again , he could not only , with God's grace , serve him ... person great instruction ; and , since nothing below man can so think , man in being thoughtless must needs fall ...
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... persons who like a large story declared that the band must consist of at least fifty men . There had not been such ... person was in danger , there was no indiguity to which he would not submit , and no act in which he would not gladly ...
... persons who like a large story declared that the band must consist of at least fifty men . There had not been such ... person was in danger , there was no indiguity to which he would not submit , and no act in which he would not gladly ...
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Página 280 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Página 33 - O Scotia, my dear, my native soil, For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent, Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content...
Página 228 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Página 156 - Coleridge, to many people, and often I have heard the complaint, seemed to wander; and he seemed then to wander the most when, in fact, his resistance to the wandering instinct was greatest — viz. when the compass and huge circuit, by which his illustrations moved, travelled farthest into remote regions before they began to revolve. Long; before this coming round commenced, most people had lost him, and naturally enough supposed that he had lost himself. They continued to admire the separate beauty...
Página 257 - Obedience : for so work the honey bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The art of order to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad ; Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; Which pillage they with merry march bring home...
Página 141 - As regards domestic buildings, there must always be a certain limitation to views of this kind in the power, as well as in the hearts, of men ; still I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
Página 58 - ... issue. I, as is usual in dreams (where of necessity we make ourselves central to every movement), had the power, and yet had not the power to decide it. I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it, and yet, again, had not the power ; for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. ' Deeper than ever plummet sounded,
Página 258 - Where the rude axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt. There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honey'd thigh That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep...
Página 310 - According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
Página 129 - I became very vain, and despised most of the boys that were at all near my own age, and before I was eight years old I was a character. Sensibility, imagination, vanity, sloth, and feelings of deep and bitter contempt for almost all who traversed the orbit of my understanding, were even then prominent and manifest.