My Windows on the Street of the World, Volume 1J.M. Dent & sons, limited, 1923 - 452 pages |
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... means of this offensive instrument , the guide imparted his ignorance by attributions more or less at variance with the truth . Thus , with unconscious humour , he indicated the Library as the Department of Hydraulics ( hortus siccus ...
... means of this offensive instrument , the guide imparted his ignorance by attributions more or less at variance with the truth . Thus , with unconscious humour , he indicated the Library as the Department of Hydraulics ( hortus siccus ...
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... means an influx , and dour in the Celtic means water . The foundation of the church is attributed to St. Columba . If this is correct , it must have been founded in the fifth century . So little of the existing church remains and the ...
... means an influx , and dour in the Celtic means water . The foundation of the church is attributed to St. Columba . If this is correct , it must have been founded in the fifth century . So little of the existing church remains and the ...
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... means of a solid iron ball about three and a half inches in diameter . Mineral oil was not in use . Light was obtained either from tallow candles or from rush lights in the " cruisie . ” 1 The universal fuel was peat . The peat was cut ...
... means of a solid iron ball about three and a half inches in diameter . Mineral oil was not in use . Light was obtained either from tallow candles or from rush lights in the " cruisie . ” 1 The universal fuel was peat . The peat was cut ...
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... means of a window . The window was exceedingly small - only a foot square in total area — and the light it might have afforded was restricted by the continuous absence of glass in one of the four divisions and by the presence of a ...
... means of a window . The window was exceedingly small - only a foot square in total area — and the light it might have afforded was restricted by the continuous absence of glass in one of the four divisions and by the presence of a ...
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... means wanting either in acuteness of mind or in education , have been known to have their churn carried across a running stream so that their butter might be freed from witchcraft . Such harmless gaucheries are by no means the last ...
... means wanting either in acuteness of mind or in education , have been known to have their churn carried across a running stream so that their butter might be freed from witchcraft . Such harmless gaucheries are by no means the last ...
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Page 117 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade...
Page 295 - FOIL'D by our fellow-men, depress'd, outworn, We leave the brutal world to take its way, And, Patience ! in another life, we say, The world shall be thrust down, and we up-borne. And will not, then, the immortal armies scorn The world's poor, routed leavings ? or will they, Who fail'd under the heat of this life's day, Support the fervours of the heavenly morn ? No, no ! the energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun ; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength...
Page 117 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 33 - In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved not study, and hated to be forced to it. Yet I was forced; and this was well done towards me, but I did not well; for, unless forced, I had not learnt But no one doth well against his will, even though what he doth, be well.
Page 95 - Whoso beset him round With dismal stories, Do but themselves confound, His strength the more is. No lion can him fright ; He'll with a giant fight, But he will have a right To...
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Page 364 - Where the blindest bluffs hold good, dear lass, And the wildest tales are true, And the men bulk big on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail, And life runs large on the Long Trail — the trail that is always new.
Page 163 - ... a lie ; If any man more can dote or adore, With so tender a care, I make it my prayer, My prayer and my wish, to be stewed in a dish ; To be sliced and slashed, minced and hashed ; And the offal remains that are left by the cook, Dragged out to the grave, with my own flesh-hook.
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Page 23 - Hearing St. Nicholas' bells ring out the chimes, Yet never see those proud ones swaying home With mainyards backed and bows a cream of foam, Those bows so lovely-curving, cut so fine, Those coulters of the many-bubbled brine, As once, long since, when all the docks were filled With that sea-beauty man has ceased to build. Yet, though their...