The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four [i.e. Thirty-eight] Volumes, Volumen17,Tema 2

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C. Scribner's Sons, 1868

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Página 251 - Art in Heaven — is the light a-comin, sir ? " " It is close at hand. HALLOWED BE THY NAME ! " " Hallowed be— thy— " The light is come upon the dark benighted way. Dead ! Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.
Página 250 - Well, Jo! What is the matter? Don't be frightened." "I thought," says Jo, who has started, and is looking round, " I thought I was in Tom-all-Alone's agin. Ain't there nobody here but you, Mr. Woodcot ? " " Nobody." "And I ain't took back to Tom-all-Alone's. Am I, sir?"
Página 251 - " I'll say any t hi nk as you say, sir, for I knows it's good." " OUR FATHER." "Our Father! — yes, that's wery good, sir.
Página 89 - I knew I was as innocent of my birth as a queen of hers and that before my Heavenly Father I should not be punished for birth nor a queen rewarded for it.
Página 128 - The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a, coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
Página 354 - I went home, Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, at night, and found this young woman having supper with my wife, Mrs. Bucket. She had made a mighty show of being fond of Mrs. Bucket from her first offering herself as our lodger, but that night she made more than ever — in fact, overdid it. Likewise, she overdid her respect, and all that, for the lamented memory of the deceased Mr. Tulkinghorn. By the living Lord, it flashed upon me, as I sat opposite to her at the table and saw her with a knife in...
Página 446 - Another secret, my dear. I have added to my collection of birds." "Really, Miss Flite ? " said I, knowing how it pleased her to have her confidence received with an appearance of interest. She nodded several times, and her face became overcast and gloomy. " Two more. I call them the Wards in Jarndyce. They are caged up with all the others. With Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent,...
Página 502 - It appeared to be something interesting, for every one was pushing and striving to get nearer. It appeared to be something that made the professional gentlemen very merry ; for there were several young counsellors in wigs and whiskers on the outside of the crowd, and when one of them told the others about it, they put their hands in their pockets, and quite doubled themselves up with laughter, and went stamping about the pavement of the hall. " We asked a gentleman by us, if he knew what case was...

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