Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography, Volumen1Houghton, 1884 |
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... truth be humiliating , so much the wholesomer for us who are humiliated ; the complacency born of ignorance of — and still more of ignoring — that which exists , can have in it no health or permanence . Sooner or later it will be ...
... truth be humiliating , so much the wholesomer for us who are humiliated ; the complacency born of ignorance of — and still more of ignoring — that which exists , can have in it no health or permanence . Sooner or later it will be ...
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... truth is , it is great pity that so hopeful a plantation should be now lost through the malice of those whose design it is to beget a misunderstanding in his Majesty of this people . It is in his Majesty's power easily to crush them by ...
... truth is , it is great pity that so hopeful a plantation should be now lost through the malice of those whose design it is to beget a misunderstanding in his Majesty of this people . It is in his Majesty's power easily to crush them by ...
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... truth , and such as I shall not be ashamed of , when I shall stand before the Judg- ment seat of Him who judgeth not by the seeing of the eye ( as to the verity thereof , I mean ) . There came to the hands of the Governor and Gen- eral ...
... truth , and such as I shall not be ashamed of , when I shall stand before the Judg- ment seat of Him who judgeth not by the seeing of the eye ( as to the verity thereof , I mean ) . There came to the hands of the Governor and Gen- eral ...
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... truth is , the acting of the late Commissioner in this place , putting the spurs too hard to the horses sides , before they were got into the saddle ; and there being added thereto the vigorous dealing of Lord Willoughby on Barbadoes ...
... truth is , the acting of the late Commissioner in this place , putting the spurs too hard to the horses sides , before they were got into the saddle ; and there being added thereto the vigorous dealing of Lord Willoughby on Barbadoes ...
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... truth that he saw ; and his recognition of this pure faculty in her , and his reverence for it , endowed his perception with that tender humanity in which other- wise it might have been deficient . Her lofty and assured ideals kept him ...
... truth that he saw ; and his recognition of this pure faculty in her , and his reverence for it , endowed his perception with that tender humanity in which other- wise it might have been deficient . Her lofty and assured ideals kept him ...
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Página 477 - While his friends were doing their best to make him president, Old Stony Phiz, as he was called, set out on a visit to the valley where he was born. Of course, he had no other object than to shake hands with his fellow-citizens, and neither thought nor cared about any effect which his progress through the country might have upon the election.
Página 402 - What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, — it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.
Página 27 - First and principally I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors...
Página 478 - But Ernest turned away, melancholy, and almost despondent: for this was the saddest of his disappointments, to behold a man who might have fulfilled the prophecy, and had not willed to do so. Meantime, the cavalcade, the banners, the music, and the barouches swept past him, with the vociferous crowd in the rear, leaving the dust to settle down, and the Great Stone Face to be revealed again, with the grandeur that it had worn for untold centuries.
Página 387 - ... the man who, like Russia or the British Empire, declares himself a sovereign nature (in himself) amid the powers of heaven, hell, and earth He may perish, but so long as he exists he insists upon treating with all Powers upon an equal basis...
Página 85 - He is by no means certain that some of his subsequent productions have not been influenced and modified by a natural desire to fill up so amiable an outline, and to act in consonance with the character assigned to him; nor, even now, could he forfeit it without a few tears of tender sensibility.
Página 108 - Oh that I was rich enough to live without a profession! What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying for support upon my pen ? Indeed, I think the illegibility of my handwriting is very author-like.
Página 477 - ... had no choice but to believe him; wrong looked like right, and right like wrong; for when it pleased him he could make a kind of illuminated fog with his mere breath, and obscure the natural daylight with it. His tongue, indeed, was a magic instrument: sometimes it rumbled like the thunder; sometimes it warbled like the sweetest music. It was the blast of war, — the song of peace; and it seemed to have a heart in it, when there was no such matter.
Página 477 - Confess it," said one of Ernest's neighbors to him, "the Great Stone Face has met its match at last!" Now, it must be owned that, at his first glimpse of the countenance which was bowing and smiling from the barouche, Ernest did fancy that there was a resemblance between it and the old familiar face upon the mountain-side.
Página 125 - I have been glad and hopeful, and here I have been despondent. And here I sat a long, long time, waiting patiently for the world to know me, and sometimes wondering why it did not know me sooner, or whether it would ever know me at all, — at least, till I were in my grave. And sometimes it seemed as if I were already in the grave, with only life enough to be chilled and benumbed.