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... WINCHESTER Bearing Witness of her Grace and Beauty - And of how she is Beloved by her Sons - My Friend Lionel Johnson and his Influence 60 71 79 87 CHAPTER XIII BALLIOL Telling of my Grievous Sorrow in leaving vi Contents.
... WINCHESTER Bearing Witness of her Grace and Beauty - And of how she is Beloved by her Sons - My Friend Lionel Johnson and his Influence 60 71 79 87 CHAPTER XIII BALLIOL Telling of my Grievous Sorrow in leaving vi Contents.
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... friend of my father's , and devoted to my mother . Indeed from letters which he has recently thought fit to publish it appears that he had the good taste to be in love with her , a condition of things which I am sure never gave my ...
... friend of my father's , and devoted to my mother . Indeed from letters which he has recently thought fit to publish it appears that he had the good taste to be in love with her , a condition of things which I am sure never gave my ...
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... friendship with Sanderson . I doubt if he enjoyed his school life . I don't think at any time of his life he quite got over the P. L. manner , the combination of shrinking and assertiveness , due to nervous self - consciousness , and a ...
... friendship with Sanderson . I doubt if he enjoyed his school life . I don't think at any time of his life he quite got over the P. L. manner , the combination of shrinking and assertiveness , due to nervous self - consciousness , and a ...
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... friend of John Stuart Mill , an early pioneer of Woman's Rights , in touch with Mrs. Wolstenholme Elmy , and occasionally spoke at meet- ings . Incidentally also cheering up Sanderson and preventing him making love to her . I do not ...
... friend of John Stuart Mill , an early pioneer of Woman's Rights , in touch with Mrs. Wolstenholme Elmy , and occasionally spoke at meet- ings . Incidentally also cheering up Sanderson and preventing him making love to her . I do not ...
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... friend of my youth - Maria , the severe pre- ceptor - capable of writing an improper book ! the thought was annihilating . No doubt in later years my regard for Maria Edge- worth would have been increased by this circumstance , but at ...
... friend of my youth - Maria , the severe pre- ceptor - capable of writing an improper book ! the thought was annihilating . No doubt in later years my regard for Maria Edge- worth would have been increased by this circumstance , but at ...
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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...