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... called the front of the house . On the first floor the room immediately above and corresponding to the drawing - room was my father's study ; above the dining - room was the principal bedroom , in which I also slept for several years ...
... called the front of the house . On the first floor the room immediately above and corresponding to the drawing - room was my father's study ; above the dining - room was the principal bedroom , in which I also slept for several years ...
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... called " Read- ing Without Tears , " which certainly did not justify its title . How- ever , he has made up for it since . I have been told by my Aunt Maude that I could read at five , and I do remember as a fact that I had read the ...
... called " Read- ing Without Tears , " which certainly did not justify its title . How- ever , he has made up for it since . I have been told by my Aunt Maude that I could read at five , and I do remember as a fact that I had read the ...
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... called in the family ) is a subject of which I shall have a good deal to say later when I had the misfortune to be ex- posed to its full force . For our present purposes I may sum up by saying that it was timid , shrinking , that of a ...
... called in the family ) is a subject of which I shall have a good deal to say later when I had the misfortune to be ex- posed to its full force . For our present purposes I may sum up by saying that it was timid , shrinking , that of a ...
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... called Fenella , and I remember that I used to ride her bareback . I have a distinct recollection of setting out for a ride one day on my bareback pony in a snowstorm clothed literally only in a shirt and a pair of trousers , for one of ...
... called Fenella , and I remember that I used to ride her bareback . I have a distinct recollection of setting out for a ride one day on my bareback pony in a snowstorm clothed literally only in a shirt and a pair of trousers , for one of ...
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... called Argus which used to accompany us on our walks , and which had the extraordinary and unusual accomplish- ment of picking ripe bilberries off the bilberry bushes and eating them . There was also a large black dog called Bosun ...
... called Argus which used to accompany us on our walks , and which had the extraordinary and unusual accomplish- ment of picking ripe bilberries off the bilberry bushes and eating them . There was also a large black dog called Bosun ...
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Page 264 - And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee ; then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided ? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Page 337 - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself. Why should I wish to see God. better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name...
Page 251 - I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will support, protect and defend the Constitution and government of the United States, and the Constitution and government of the State of , against all enemies, whether domestic or foreign ; and that I will bear true faith, allegiance and loyalty to the same, any ordinance, resolution, or law of any State, Convention or Legislature, to the contrary notwithstanding...
Page 337 - That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms...
Page 337 - I do not despise you priests, all time, the world over, My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths, Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern...
Page 251 - I will support, protect and defend the Constitution and government of the United States against all enemies, whether domestic or foreign, and that I will bear true faith, allegiance and loyalty to the same, any ordinance, resolution or law of any State convention or legislature to the contrary notwithstanding ; and, further, that I do this with a full determination, pledge and purpose, without any mental reservation or evasion whatsoever ; and, further, that I will well and faithfully perform all...
Page 337 - Why should I wish to see God. better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go, Others will punctually come for ever and ever.
Page 337 - And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God, For I who am curious about each am not curious about God, (No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and about death...
Page 340 - In this lies Man's true freedom; in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good, to respect only the heaven which inspires the insight of our best moments. In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellow men, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.
Page 20 - Countless errors are involved in his first eight propositions. That is to say, not only is it doubtful whether his axioms are true, which is a comparatively trivial matter, but it is certain that his propositions do not follow from the axioms which he enunciates. A vastly greater number of axioms, which Euclid unconsciously employs, are required for the proof of his propositions. Even in the first proposition of all, where he constructs an equilateral triangle on a given base, he uses two circles...