會話作文和英中辭林

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Ikubunsha, 1904 - Japanese language - 1180 pages
 

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Page 373 - WE, by the Grace of Heaven, Emperor of Japan, seated on the Throne occupied by the same Dynasty from time immemorial, do hereby make proclamation to all Our loyal and brave subjects...
Page 88 - The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.
Page 91 - At the foot of these fairy mountains, the voyager may have descried the light smoke curling up from a village, whose shingle-roofs gleam among the trees, just where the blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green of the nearer landscape.
Page 662 - ... a perfect union of wit and judgment is one of the rarest things in the world.
Page 59 - Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.
Page 61 - waited at Suez many days, wondering -why Ali did not come; and then, thinking there had "been some mistake, determined to return home with the caravan which was starting for Gaza. We need hardly describe the joy of "both father and son at thus meeting, nor the pleasure with which the father listened to the history of all the fears and dangers to which his young son had been exposed. He "was glad, too, that their precious Meekeye had been saved.
Page 492 - Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion ;' ie the first of the yeomanry rather than the last of the gentry.
Page 682 - I think, madam, I cannot be mistaken; it is a long time since I had the pleasure of seeing you, but is not your name Allen?
Page 1102 - Sir, are quite out of fashion! Our taste has gone back a whole century; Fletcher, Ben Jonson, and all the plays of Shakespeare are the only things that go down.
Page 851 - Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another's feet For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

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