The SavageT.S. Manning, 1810 - 312 pages |
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Page 18
... importance to the industrious man . He values them highly . And the man who sets a high value on small sums may possibly ad- here to the dead letter of honesty ; but he has lost that nobility of the heart , for which nothing can be a ...
... importance to the industrious man . He values them highly . And the man who sets a high value on small sums may possibly ad- here to the dead letter of honesty ; but he has lost that nobility of the heart , for which nothing can be a ...
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... importance to little Vapid ? His fea- tures are diminutive , and his person contemptible . Vapid values himself on the cleanness and neatness of his dress . A speck of dirt on his white pantaloons would throw him into an agony of ...
... importance to little Vapid ? His fea- tures are diminutive , and his person contemptible . Vapid values himself on the cleanness and neatness of his dress . A speck of dirt on his white pantaloons would throw him into an agony of ...
Page 49
... how precarious must its situation be , where nothing gives importance but wealth , and wealth has no connexion with individual E merit ; where the higher and the lower ranks never THE SAVAGE . 49 THE SAVAGE-NO. V. ...
... how precarious must its situation be , where nothing gives importance but wealth , and wealth has no connexion with individual E merit ; where the higher and the lower ranks never THE SAVAGE . 49 THE SAVAGE-NO. V. ...
Page 66
... importance or dignity of character ? It is not possible . Honor is a powerful incentive to virtuous actions ; but honor has no influence with the wretch that I de- scribe . Shame , in certain societies , will prevent a man from falling ...
... importance or dignity of character ? It is not possible . Honor is a powerful incentive to virtuous actions ; but honor has no influence with the wretch that I de- scribe . Shame , in certain societies , will prevent a man from falling ...
Page 79
... importance , to the beasts of the desert ; that they find it necessary to have recourse to the mean arts of cunning and dissimulation in all their enterprises against the brutal creation . We should be happy to look forward , to the ...
... importance , to the beasts of the desert ; that they find it necessary to have recourse to the mean arts of cunning and dissimulation in all their enterprises against the brutal creation . We should be happy to look forward , to the ...
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Page 289 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 78 - There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men that were of old, men of renown.
Page 10 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 156 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Page 202 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 225 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 301 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Beth day and night.
Page 217 - For pronunciation the best general rule is, to consider those as the most elegant speakers who deviate least from the written words.