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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... charms of which he had heard and read . As he glanced fitfully from spot to spot , he noted the several clumps of trees rising like wood- land islets out of the boundless ocean of verdure which surrounded them ; the long , luxuriant ...
... charms of which he had heard and read . As he glanced fitfully from spot to spot , he noted the several clumps of trees rising like wood- land islets out of the boundless ocean of verdure which surrounded them ; the long , luxuriant ...
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... charm of the " strange place " had lost its freshness with the familiarity of even an hour or two ; and the lad , who at first had run wild as a deer , startled by the strange objects about him , became ere long quiet and sedate as a ...
... charm of the " strange place " had lost its freshness with the familiarity of even an hour or two ; and the lad , who at first had run wild as a deer , startled by the strange objects about him , became ere long quiet and sedate as a ...
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... charm me with his wonderful lore of melancholy ? ay , and even , if I please , get Newton , or Bacon , or Hobbes to talk philosophy with me , and lay bare the subtle mechanism of the universe itself ? Ah ! my friend , " he added , as ...
... charm me with his wonderful lore of melancholy ? ay , and even , if I please , get Newton , or Bacon , or Hobbes to talk philosophy with me , and lay bare the subtle mechanism of the universe itself ? Ah ! my friend , " he added , as ...
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... charm there was to him in enlarging the dust of a butterfly's wing to the magnitude of an ostrich's feathers , or in looking at the proboscis of a blue - bottle under a " high power ! " but how " stale , flat , and unprofitable " to ...
... charm there was to him in enlarging the dust of a butterfly's wing to the magnitude of an ostrich's feathers , or in looking at the proboscis of a blue - bottle under a " high power ! " but how " stale , flat , and unprofitable " to ...
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... charm in lighting on a new discovery , or evolving some new fact or law in nature , which transcended all other forms of happiness ; that the study of the subtle forces of creation - the secret affinities of things the strange sympathy ...
... charm in lighting on a new discovery , or evolving some new fact or law in nature , which transcended all other forms of happiness ; that the study of the subtle forces of creation - the secret affinities of things the strange sympathy ...
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Page 430 - 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 306 - 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 289 - ... other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one...
Page 275 - Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Page 275 - 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 291 - 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 306 - 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 ! ' to all the house : ' Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more.
Page 305 - 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 17 - At ten years old I was taken home to assist my father in his business, which was that of a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler...
Page 290 - ... was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other...