Waifs: a Handful of Essays and SketchesJ. Maclehose, 1881 - 206 páginas |
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... 76 87 105 113 OF WHAT YOU ARE SPEAKING OR WRITING ABOUT , 121 HOOD'S POEMS , 134 THE TESTIMONIAL , 149 A LAY LECTURE ON REVIVALISM , 153 NOEL PATON'S " ILLUSTRATIONS OF SLAVERY , " · 162 HENRY GLASSFORD BELL'S " MARY , QUEEN OF SCOTS ,
... 76 87 105 113 OF WHAT YOU ARE SPEAKING OR WRITING ABOUT , 121 HOOD'S POEMS , 134 THE TESTIMONIAL , 149 A LAY LECTURE ON REVIVALISM , 153 NOEL PATON'S " ILLUSTRATIONS OF SLAVERY , " · 162 HENRY GLASSFORD BELL'S " MARY , QUEEN OF SCOTS ,
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... writer must have felt , the plagiarism is quite innocent and unconscious . Some thoughts , a verse or line we have ... writing or speaking on any cognate subject that calls it up , we may , without the slighest hint of wrong - doing ...
... writer must have felt , the plagiarism is quite innocent and unconscious . Some thoughts , a verse or line we have ... writing or speaking on any cognate subject that calls it up , we may , without the slighest hint of wrong - doing ...
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... write I seem to feel the fresh breezes fanning my cheek , and the big city and its cares seem very unsubstantial and remote . Come then , if you deserve to be in such superior society , and accompany us a day's journey over the ...
... write I seem to feel the fresh breezes fanning my cheek , and the big city and its cares seem very unsubstantial and remote . Come then , if you deserve to be in such superior society , and accompany us a day's journey over the ...
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... write it in their copy - books - Short cuts are dangerous . 66 But on , still on , across heather , bog , and boulder ; the sun is westering , the air is getting chillier , and a long way " lies between us and our hames " —you know the ...
... write it in their copy - books - Short cuts are dangerous . 66 But on , still on , across heather , bog , and boulder ; the sun is westering , the air is getting chillier , and a long way " lies between us and our hames " —you know the ...
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... writer rather thinks that it will be some time before he repeats the same journey " over the hills . " And yet , is there one of us who would willingly forego the memory of his adven- tures and his toils ? No , no . As the mountain ...
... writer rather thinks that it will be some time before he repeats the same journey " over the hills . " And yet , is there one of us who would willingly forego the memory of his adven- tures and his toils ? No , no . As the mountain ...
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Página 185 - With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Página 116 - Why should a man whose blood is warm within Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster...
Página 139 - Two sudden blows with a ragged stick And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife — And then the deed was done: There was nothing ly,ing at my foot, But lifeless flesh and bone!
Página 12 - Let him that stole steal no more : but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Página 57 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary...
Página 57 - Past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Página 192 - Leishman A SYSTEM OF MIDWIFERY, including the Diseases of Pregnancy and the Puerperal State. By WILLIAM LEISHMAN, MD, Regius Professor of Midwifery in the University of Glasgow ; Physician to the University Lying-in Hospital; Fellow and late Vice-President of the Obstetrical Society of London, etc.
Página 93 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Página 103 - I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 119 - Tis what the vicious fear, the virtuous shun, By fools 'tis hated, and by knaves undone! If wit so much from ign'rance undergo, Ah let not learning too commence its foe!