Two generations, or, Birth, parentage, and education, Volume 1; Volume 251 |
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Page 47 - I have set the LORD always before me : because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth : my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell ; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life : in thy presence is fulness of joy ; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Page 173 - To make us truly blest; If happiness hae not her seat And centre in the breast, We may be wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest : Nae treasures, nor pleasures, Could make us happy lang : The heart aye's the part aye That makes us right or wrang.
Page 273 - Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And " Dust to dust
Page 148 - I've nothing to reproach or to request. Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence ; man may range The...
Page 3 - Car Dieu mit ces degrés aux fortunes humaines. Les uns vont tout courbés sous le fardeau des peines Au banquet du bonheur bien peu sont conviés ; Tous n'y sont point assis également à l'aise. Une loi, qui d'en bas semble injuste et mauvaise, Dit aux uns : Jouissez!
Page 82 - By education most have been misled ; So they believe, because they so were bred. The priest continues what the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
Page 49 - Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave. ' The good die first, And those whose hearts are dry as summer dust, Burn to the socket !
Page 217 - C'est ma bonne qui m'a coiffée, et pas maman, Parce qu'elle lisait dans un livre. JULIEN, à part. \ Un roman ! CAMILLE. Pourquoi faire lit-elle après qu'elle sait lire ? JULIEN. Ma foi, je serais bien en peine de le dire, Car elle a constamment ouvert devant les yeux Le livre le plus pur et le plus gracieux Que poète ait jamais tiré de sa cervelle...
Page 264 - It is a point out of doubt with me, that the ladies are most properly the judges of the men's dress, and the men of that of the ladies.
Page 67 - I think it not impertinent sometimes to relate such accidents as may seem no better than mere trifles ; for even by trifles are the qualities of great persons as well disclosed as by their great actions; because in matters of importance they commonly strain themselves to the observance of general commended rules, in lesser things they follow the current of their own natures.