A Bubble Fortune

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J.B. Lippincott Company, 1896 - English fiction - 319 pages
 

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Page 279 - Schiller, is not to be extinguished by the reputable but contracted ideas of a limited portion of society. God has not made it sweeter to weep with those who weep, than to rejoice with those who rejoice, for no purpose. Look at the Arabs, as they cluster round the story-teller who charms the groups of Yemen, 'or the knots of delighted faces which surround the Polchinello of Naples, and you will see how universal is the passions in mankind for theatrical representations.
Page 120 - Nonsense !' says her mother peevishly. 'You ought to know what I mean. Your manners are so boyish ; you have no repose, no accomplishments, or anything.' ' " Her manners have not that repose Which marks the caste of Vere de Vere, " ' interposes (sotto roce) Edward, who is the book-worm of the family.
Page 245 - I think the best thing will be for you to go back to your two-dozen wives, you must be missing them by this time.
Page 11 - ... that an affection for these things chokes the seed of the kingdom, and separates from the presence and approbation of God, whom thou, O man and woman, art required to love with every faculty of thy soul. But if people love not the world, nor the things that are in the world — the lust of the...
Page 243 - Miles, in consideration of a certain sum of money, paid down to him, relinquished the small interest he had held in the Red Rock Falls property.
Page 215 - He was not paying any attention to the direction in which he was going. His mind was full of the threatened changes.

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