The GentlemanTicknor and Fields, 1863 - 159 страници |
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Страница 87 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Страница 55 - Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall : for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law...
Страница 56 - Then said Paul. I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
Страница 56 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no ^ flesh while the world standeth, * lest I make my brother to offend.
Страница 159 - tis the soul of peace : Of all the virtues, 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit : The first true gentleman, that ever breathed.
Страница 38 - Lamb ; and I know certain cases in which he was concerned — cases which it is difficult to publish with any regard to the feelings of persons now living, but which (if published in all their circumstances) would show him to be the very noblest of human beings. He was a man, in a sense more eminent than would be conceivable by many people, princely — nothing short of that in his beneficence. Many liberal people I have known in this world — many who were charitable in the widest sense — many...
Страница 87 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Страница 95 - This man (pointing to him I looked at) I take to be the honour of our house, Sir Humphrey de Coverley; he was in his dealings as punctual as a tradesman, and as generous as a gentleman. He would have thought himself as much undone by breaking his word, as if it were to be followed by bankruptcy. He served his country as knight of this shire to his dying day.
Страница 57 - Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. 29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Страница 156 - The gentleman is never unduly familiar ; takes no liberties ; is chary of questions ; is neither artificial nor affected ; is as little obtrusive upon the mind or feelings of others as on their persons; bears himself tenderly towards the weak and unprotected ; is not arrogant ; cannot be supercilious; can be self-denying without struggle ; is not vain of his advantages, extrinsic or personal ; habitually subordinates his lower to his higher self ; is, in his best condition, electric with truth, buoyant...