Innocents from Abroad

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G.W. Carleton & Company, 1878 - 252 страници
 

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Страница 12 - Stay draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views). i .The finest authors of antiquity have taken him on the more advantageous side. They cultivate the natural grandeur of the soul, raise in her a generous ambition, feed her with hopes, of immortality and perfection, and dp all they can to widen the partition* between the virtuous and the vicious, by making the difference betwixt them as great as between gods and brutes.
Страница 12 - I must confess there is nothing that more pleases me, in all that I read in books or see among mankind, than such passages as represent human nature in its proper dignity. As man is a creature made up of different extremes, he has something in him very great and very mean. A skilful artist may draw an excellent picture of him in either of these views.
Страница 178 - Ye are the salt of the earth ; but if the salt has lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted ? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Страница 178 - The rich man clothed in purple and fine linen, and faring sumptuously every day, was in worldly prosperity, and Lazarus at his gate full of sores was in adversity.
Страница 163 - You should have told me you were coming and I would have sent the launch for you.
Страница 204 - At the head of the stairs they separated, each going to the proper dressing-room.

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