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الصفحة 180 - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die. who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid : as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground ; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
الصفحة 24 - The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen, which, I thank God, has befallen me ; and though among the follies of my life, building and planting have not been the least, and have cost me more than I have the confidence to own ; yet they have been fully recompensed by the sweetness and satisfaction of this retreat, where, since my resolution taken of never entering again into any public employments, I have passed five years without ever once going to town, though I am almost...
الصفحة 231 - A GARLAND OF COUNTRY SONG: English Folk Songs with their Traditional Melodies. Collected and arranged by S. BARING-GOULD and HF SHEPPARD. Demy 4/0. 6s. SONGS OF THE WEST: Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall. Collected from the Mouths of the People. ByS. BARING-GOULD, MA,and H.
الصفحة 25 - When all is done (he concludes), human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
الصفحة 47 - ... his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk: he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, all covered with powder, that never grew on his head ; but now should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of those birchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, though the sweepings of the finest lady's chamber, we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity.
الصفحة 138 - Positive and over-bearing, Changing still, and still adhering; Spiteful, peevish, rude, untoward, Fierce in tongue, in heart a coward ; When his friends he most is hard on, Cringing comes to beg their pardon ; Reputation ever tearing, Ever dearest friendship swearing ; Judgment weak, and passion strong; Always various, always wrong ; Provocation never waits, Where he loves, or where he hates ; Talks whate'er comes in his head, Wishes it were all unsaid.
الصفحة 240 - SELECTED POEMS. Oscar Wilde. SEVASTOPOL, AND OTHER STORIES. Leo Tolstoy. Two ADMIRALS. Admiral John Moresby. UNDER FIVE REIGNS. Lady Dorothy Nevill. VAILIMA LETTERS. Robert Louis Stevenson. VICAR OF MORWENSTOW, THE. S. BaringGould. Books for Travellers Crown Svo.
الصفحة 158 - ... break their eggs at the smaller end. Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy; but the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments. During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefuscu did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the...
الصفحة 76 - Know you what it is to be a child ? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters, of baptism...
الصفحة 155 - Language. The Emperor had a mind one day to entertain me with several of the Country Shows, wherein they exceed all Nations I have known, both for Dexterity and Magnificence. I was diverted with none so much as that of the Rope-Dancers, performed upon a slender white Thread, extended about two Foot and twelve Inches from the Ground.