An "attic" PhilosopherCurrent Literature Publishing Company, 1923 - 306 страници |
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... remained mute and motionless . Those who passed him took no notice of the beggar , who sat in silence and darkness ! They had been so lucky as to escape complaints and importunities , and were glad to turn [ 37 ] AN " ATTIC " PHILOSOPHER.
... remained mute and motionless . Those who passed him took no notice of the beggar , who sat in silence and darkness ! They had been so lucky as to escape complaints and importunities , and were glad to turn [ 37 ] AN " ATTIC " PHILOSOPHER.
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... remained motionless , confounded , and amazed , his eyes wide open , and his hands clasped . Rousseau , who had shuddered on hearing his name spoken , turned toward him : " You see , " said he , with the bitter misanthropy which his ...
... remained motionless , confounded , and amazed , his eyes wide open , and his hands clasped . Rousseau , who had shuddered on hearing his name spoken , turned toward him : " You see , " said he , with the bitter misanthropy which his ...
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... remained silent . The joiner pre- tended he needed a tool , and left me . Poor father ! Ah ! I know those moments of tempta- tion when virtue has failed to reward us , and we regret having obeyed her ! Who has not felt this weakness in ...
... remained silent . The joiner pre- tended he needed a tool , and left me . Poor father ! Ah ! I know those moments of tempta- tion when virtue has failed to reward us , and we regret having obeyed her ! Who has not felt this weakness in ...
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... remained entire in the half- destroyed covering . The fortress is a little damaged , as Father Chaufour says , but the garrison is quite hearty . Decidedly , the more I think of this excellent man , the more I reproach myself for the ...
... remained entire in the half- destroyed covering . The fortress is a little damaged , as Father Chaufour says , but the garrison is quite hearty . Decidedly , the more I think of this excellent man , the more I reproach myself for the ...
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... remained fixed in my memory . But one day I found him quite grave . " Jerome , ' said he , ' do you know what is going on on the frontier ? ' " No , lieutenant , ' replied I. " Well , ' resumed he , ' our country [ 123 ] AN " ATTIC ...
... remained fixed in my memory . But one day I found him quite grave . " Jerome , ' said he , ' do you know what is going on on the frontier ? ' " No , lieutenant , ' replied I. " Well , ' resumed he , ' our country [ 123 ] AN " ATTIC ...
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Страница 39 - Duval wore one of those fanciful children's dresses which are expensive as well as in good taste ; his coat was skillfully fitted to his figure, his trousers came down in plaits from his waist to his boots of polished leather with mother-of-pearl buttons, and his ringlets were half hid by a velvet cap. The appearance of his guide, on the contrary, was that of the class who dwell on the extreme borders...
Страница 40 - The countenances of the two children were not less different than their dresses. That of the first was delicate and refined; his clear blue eye, his fair skin, and his smiling mouth, gave him a charming look of innocence and happiness ; the features of the other, on the contrary, had...
Страница 38 - Duval — there are twelve hundred Duvals in Paris." " Then he does not know in what part of the town he lives?" I should think not, indeed ! Don't you see that he is a gentleman's child ? He has never gone out except in a carriage, or with a servant ; he does not know what to do by himself." Here the mason was interrupted by some of the voices rising above the others. " We cannot leave him in the street,
Страница 107 - ... his shoulders stooping, his legs shrunken and slightly bent. There seems a sort of weight in his whole being. His very features have an expression of sorrow and despondency. He answered my questions by monosyllables, and like a man who wishes to avoid conversation. From whence is this dejection, when one would think he had all he could wish for ? I should like to know ! Ten o'clock. — Michael is just gone down-stairs to look for a tool he has forgotten.
Страница 41 - I recognized them at first sight; they were the child who was found near the parapet of the Louvre, and his young guide. But the dress of the latter was greatly changed: his blouse of gray cloth was neat, and even spruce, and was fastened round the waist by a polished leather belt; he wore strong shoes, but made for his feet, and had on a new cloth cap.
Страница 31 - Stay here forever with thy charming sisters, Pity, Patience, Sobriety, and Solitude ; be ye my queens and my instructors ; teach me the stern duties of life ; remove far from my abode the weakness of heart, and giddiness of head, which follow prosperity. Holy Poverty ! teach me to endure without complaining, to impart without grudging, to seek the end of life higher than in pleasure, farther off than in power. Thou givest the body strength, thou makest the mind more firm ; and, thanks to thee, this...
Страница 110 - ? But if virtue is only a word, what is there, then, in life which is true and real ? No, I will not believe that goodness is in vain. It does not always give the happiness we had hoped for, but it brings some other. In the world...
Страница 110 - We always consider life as a fairy tale, in which every good action must be rewarded by a visible wonder. We do not accept as payment a peaceful conscience, self-content, or a good name among men — treasures that are more precious than any other, but the value of which we do not feel till after we have lost them ! Michael is come back and returned to his work. His son had not yet arrived. By telling me of his hopes and his grievous disappointments, he became excited; he unceasingly went over again...