Young Benjamin Franklin: Or, The Right Road Through Life, A Boy's Book on a Boy's Own SubjectHarper & Brothers, 1862 - 561 pages |
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... heart from the grossnesses and vanities of human life , and lets the work - day spirit loose among the quiet , shady , and healthful beauties of nature . The intense school and the repose school are the two far - dis- tant extremes of ...
... heart from the grossnesses and vanities of human life , and lets the work - day spirit loose among the quiet , shady , and healthful beauties of nature . The intense school and the repose school are the two far - dis- tant extremes of ...
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... heart , Benjamin found little pleasure in the amusement . He knew he was neglecting his work for it ; he knew , too , that his half - Puri- tan father regarded disobedience as the prime cause of all error , so that playing at such a ...
... heart , Benjamin found little pleasure in the amusement . He knew he was neglecting his work for it ; he knew , too , that his half - Puri- tan father regarded disobedience as the prime cause of all error , so that playing at such a ...
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... heart fails me , and my spirit keeps pulling my body away " ( the boy had caught the Puritanical phrases of the time ) , " and filling my head with the delight of being on the water ; and then , for the life of me , I can't keep away ...
... heart fails me , and my spirit keeps pulling my body away " ( the boy had caught the Puritanical phrases of the time ) , " and filling my head with the delight of being on the water ; and then , for the life of me , I can't keep away ...
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... heart by raising her hopes of her truant child . Com- ing ! " shouted the tallow - chandler , as he ducked his head under the fringe of candles , while the impatient visitor kept tapping on the counter . As the husband left the parlor ...
... heart by raising her hopes of her truant child . Com- ing ! " shouted the tallow - chandler , as he ducked his head under the fringe of candles , while the impatient visitor kept tapping on the counter . As the husband left the parlor ...
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... heart to find how buttonless and stringless , and even ragged , their clothes had become during their long absence . Scarcely had she kissed the boys before she twisted them round by the shoulders , as she eyed them from top to toe ...
... heart to find how buttonless and stringless , and even ragged , their clothes had become during their long absence . Scarcely had she kissed the boys before she twisted them round by the shoulders , as she eyed them from top to toe ...
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Page 426 - Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 304 - Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep" — the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care; The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast — Lady M. What do you mean? Macb. Still it cried "Sleep no more!
Page 287 - ... other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one...
Page 289 - We tiffed a little going to church, and fairly quarrelled before the bells had done ringing. I was more than once nearly choked with gall during the honeymoon, and had lost all comfort in life before my friends had done wishing me joy. Yet I chose with caution — a girl bred wholly in the country, who never knew luxury beyond one silk gown, nor dissipation above the annual gala of a race ball.
Page 425 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are : for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 303 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Page 273 - A made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child. A parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide. For after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 289 - When an old bachelor marries a young wife, what is he to expect ? 'Tis now six months since Lady Teazle made me the happiest of men — and I have been the most miserable dog ever since ! We tiffed a little going to church, and fairly quarrelled before the bells had done ringing.
Page 287 - ... in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Page 288 - Heaven, we were all going direct the other way- in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.