A Handful of Paper ShavingsSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1861 |
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... Honesty Honesty is the Best Policy Human Life Human Face Ill - treatment of Dumb Animals Impetuosity and Perseverance Instinct Influence . 1282 52888888 20 PAGE . 20 69 20 97 120 23 90 68 84 108 138 68 27 128 16 70 Knowledge is Power ...
... Honesty Honesty is the Best Policy Human Life Human Face Ill - treatment of Dumb Animals Impetuosity and Perseverance Instinct Influence . 1282 52888888 20 PAGE . 20 69 20 97 120 23 90 68 84 108 138 68 27 128 16 70 Knowledge is Power ...
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... honesty must be grounded on an odious assump- tion - that the major part of mankind are thieves ; a compliment for a vice or a failing is an insult ; and an unmerited compliment is a thoroughly disgusting impertinence to a sensible ...
... honesty must be grounded on an odious assump- tion - that the major part of mankind are thieves ; a compliment for a vice or a failing is an insult ; and an unmerited compliment is a thoroughly disgusting impertinence to a sensible ...
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... honesty . THE FIRST OBJECT OF FAITH . The first object of faith is one'sself , and the very last thing an infidel gives up is his belief in himself . We are daily finding out that others are not to be trusted , but what a long time we ...
... honesty . THE FIRST OBJECT OF FAITH . The first object of faith is one'sself , and the very last thing an infidel gives up is his belief in himself . We are daily finding out that others are not to be trusted , but what a long time we ...
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... HONESTY . There are three kinds of honesty , which are as distinct in their nature and as different in their value as tin , and mercury , and gold . There is the honesty of the man who , having had some experience of life , has become ...
... HONESTY . There are three kinds of honesty , which are as distinct in their nature and as different in their value as tin , and mercury , and gold . There is the honesty of the man who , having had some experience of life , has become ...
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... honesty of the eye - a pale glitter- ing kind of honesty , that you may scratch away from the man with your thumb - nail as you could the quicksilver from a looking- glass . Depend on it , there is little sterling honesty about people ...
... honesty of the eye - a pale glitter- ing kind of honesty , that you may scratch away from the man with your thumb - nail as you could the quicksilver from a looking- glass . Depend on it , there is little sterling honesty about people ...
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Página 131 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Página 127 - And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent ! THE HARP THE MONARCH MINSTREL SWEPT.
Página 131 - Romeo : and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world shall be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Página 83 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Página 124 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Página 26 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Página 139 - Oh ! o'er the eye death most exerts his might, And hurls the spirit from her throne of light ! Sinks those blue orbs in that long last eclipse, But spares, as yet, the charm around her lips...
Página 142 - The devil hath not in all his quiver's choice An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
Página 127 - Thus while he spake, each passion dimm'd his face, Thrice changed with pale, ire, envy, and despair...
Página 143 - As if thou then hadat shut up in thy brain Some horrible conceit.