Self Culture, Volume 7, Issue 1Werner Company, 1898 |
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... cause . William Walsh wrote some good lines on a man who is quarrelsome when drunk , but who fails to fight when he has become sober ; they run thus : " Thraso picks quarrels when he's drunk at night ; When sober in the morning dares ...
... cause . William Walsh wrote some good lines on a man who is quarrelsome when drunk , but who fails to fight when he has become sober ; they run thus : " Thraso picks quarrels when he's drunk at night ; When sober in the morning dares ...
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... cause has much about her char- acteristic of hundreds of familiar modern heroines using their influence on the side of right and peace . Nor do the oldest stories differ in essentials from the stories of to - day . In both there are ...
... cause has much about her char- acteristic of hundreds of familiar modern heroines using their influence on the side of right and peace . Nor do the oldest stories differ in essentials from the stories of to - day . In both there are ...
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... cause trouble could , by issuing a sum- mons or a statement of claim in the Irish language , compel every English official in the exclusively English - speaking dis- tricts to employ the Celtic tongue throughout the entire case , and ...
... cause trouble could , by issuing a sum- mons or a statement of claim in the Irish language , compel every English official in the exclusively English - speaking dis- tricts to employ the Celtic tongue throughout the entire case , and ...
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... cause with the Germans . Count Badeni , relying on the fancied omnipo- tence of Dr. Lueger , the chief of the anti- Semites , who was supposed to have the Viennese population " in his pocket , " caused the crowds to be dispersed by ...
... cause with the Germans . Count Badeni , relying on the fancied omnipo- tence of Dr. Lueger , the chief of the anti- Semites , who was supposed to have the Viennese population " in his pocket , " caused the crowds to be dispersed by ...
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... cause of Socialism made enormous progress in consequence , their journals — which are undoubtedly the fairest , most dispassion- ate , and most truthful in the Empire- gained thousands of new supporters , and their ranks were swelled by ...
... cause of Socialism made enormous progress in consequence , their journals — which are undoubtedly the fairest , most dispassion- ate , and most truthful in the Empire- gained thousands of new supporters , and their ranks were swelled by ...
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Page 7 - SOME ask'd me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say : But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke I to my girl, To part her lips, and show'd them there The quarelets of Pearl.
Page 73 - Every reader has his first book ; I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth first fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind.
Page 45 - I have gone the whole round of creation: I saw and I spoke. I, a work of God's hand for that purpose, received in my brain, And pronounced on, the rest of his handwork, — returned him again His creation's approval or censure; I spoke as I saw. I report, as a man may of God's work: all's love, yet all's law.
Page 9 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; The next, in majesty ; in both, the last. The force of nature could no further go ; To make a third, she join'd the former two.
Page 10 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
Page 24 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Page 78 - With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Page 11 - Here lies Fred, Who was alive, and is dead. Had it been his father, I had much rather. Had it been his brother, Still better than another. Had it been his sister, No one would have missed her. Had it been the whole generation, Still better for the nation. But since 'tis only Fred, Who was alive, and is dead, There's no more to be said.
Page 22 - As this old gentleman, who had been in all the German wars, found very few to listen to his tales of military feats, he formed a sort of alliance with me, and I used invariably to attend him for the pleasure of hearing those communications.