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There is a real pleasure attends those same castles which all of us so. 1 Mitchell , in his letter ( from Linlithgow , 9th April ) to which this is an answer , had written as follows . The passage is characteristic , and shows his ...
There is a real pleasure attends those same castles which all of us so. 1 Mitchell , in his letter ( from Linlithgow , 9th April ) to which this is an answer , had written as follows . The passage is characteristic , and shows his ...
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pleasure attends those same castles which all of us so often build , and though , “ like the baseless fabric of a vision , " they must " all dissolve and leave not a rack behind , ” still there is enjoyment while the illusion lasts .
pleasure attends those same castles which all of us so often build , and though , “ like the baseless fabric of a vision , " they must " all dissolve and leave not a rack behind , ” still there is enjoyment while the illusion lasts .
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MY DEAR MITCHELL — Nothing could exceed my pleasure at receiving your obliging and entertaining , though laconic epistle . I hope , however , I need not tell you that the foolishness of your letter was not the cause of my long silence .
MY DEAR MITCHELL — Nothing could exceed my pleasure at receiving your obliging and entertaining , though laconic epistle . I hope , however , I need not tell you that the foolishness of your letter was not the cause of my long silence .
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MY DEAR BOB — Your letter of the 31st May gave me a great deal of pleasure . I had heard a sort of vague account that you were sick ; and I had formed the project of coming up to condole with you , when it seems ) you had so much need ...
MY DEAR BOB — Your letter of the 31st May gave me a great deal of pleasure . I had heard a sort of vague account that you were sick ; and I had formed the project of coming up to condole with you , when it seems ) you had so much need ...
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Give my best respects to Mr. and Mrs. Duncan , and mention that I intend to have the pleasure of seeing them in a short time . I cannot come first Saturday for many reasons . I cannot come the next Saturday , for then is Mr. Glen's ...
Give my best respects to Mr. and Mrs. Duncan , and mention that I intend to have the pleasure of seeing them in a short time . I cannot come first Saturday for many reasons . I cannot come the next Saturday , for then is Mr. Glen's ...
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affectionate already answer appears become begin believe Brother called character comfort considerable continue dear doubt Edinburgh engaged expect Father fear feel give hand happy head hear heart hope hour interest Irving Jack John Johnstone keep kind late least leave less letter live London look Mainhill matter means mind Miss WELSH Mitchell months morning Mother nature never night once pass perhaps person pleasure poor present printed reason received respect rest seems sent short soon soul speak spirit STREET suppose sure talk tell thank things THOMAS CARLYLE thought tion translation true truth turn week whole winter wish worth write written wrote
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Страница 66 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Страница 263 - ... part of England: but he does hinder that it become, on tyrannous unfair terms, a part of it; commands still, as with a god's voice, from his old Valhalla and Temple of the Brave, that there be a just real union as of brother and brother, not a false and merely semblant one as of slave and master. If the union with England be in fact one of Scotland's chief blessings, we thank Wallace withal that it was not the chief curse. Scotland is not Ireland: no, because brave men rose there, and said, 'Behold,...
Страница 227 - French author, d'Alembert (one of the few persons who deserve the honourable epithet of honest man), whom I was lately reading, remarks that one who devoted his life to learning ought to carry for his motto, ' Liberty, Truth, Poverty,' for he that fears the latter can never have the former.
Страница 26 - JUSTUM et tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida, neque Auster, Dux inquieti turbidus Adriae, 5 Nee fulminantis magna manus Jovis : Si fractus illabatur orbis, * Impavidum ferient ruinae.
Страница 180 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Страница 25 - Justum et tenacem propositi virum, Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida . . . Si fractus illabatur orbis Impavidum ferient r1linse.
Страница 303 - I know you •will read it with attention and pleasure. It contains nothing that I know of but truth of fact and sentiment ; and I have always found that the honest truth of one mind had a certain attraction in it for every other mind that loved truth honestly. Various quacks, for instance, have exclaimed against the immorality of Meister ; and the person whom it delighted above all others of my acquaintance was Mrs. Strachey, exactly the most religious, pure, and true-minded person among the whole...
Страница 160 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.