Delphine, Volumes 1-2

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E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1896
 

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Page 158 - The man that hath no music in his soul, And is not moved by concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are as dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted ! ' ' This is not always so, hence the injunction imperative is unkind.
Page 9 - Freemasonry, which has for its principles the existence of a God and the immortality of the soul...
Page 12 - Fama di loro il mondo esser non lassa, Non ragioniam di lor ; ma guarda e passa...
Page 51 - Lord Halifax was strangely ignorant of what was happening to the Jews of Germany. During the St. James Conference he came up to me and said: "I have just received a letter from a friend in Germany, who describes some terrible things perpetrated by the Nazis in a concentration camp the name of which is not familiar to me," and when he began to grope for the name I realized it was Dachau he was talking about.
Page 7 - French, the mind is excited by new combinations, and the imagination is animated by the bold flights it con•leinns as much as by those it approves. In studying these works, our authors might succeed in adapting to the French taste, which is perhaps the purest in the world, some original beauties which would give to the literature of the nineteenth century a character entirely its own.
Page 47 - I will endeavour, as far as I am able, to give you the results of my experiments upon sewage, and the plan which I think most likely to accomplish the object desired in respect thereto. When I tried the ordinary method of filtering through sand, charcoal, gas lime, black earth, fine ashes...
Page 59 - I might be permitted to pass with you without remorse ; but what gives me strength to disdain all appearances, and raise myself even above public opinion, is the certainty that I have done no wrong : I do not fear men while my conscience reproaches me with nothing.
Page 191 - what has occasioned your illness : the last time I had the pleasure of seeing you, you were quite well. There must be something else, that you conceal from me ; pray let me know what it is.
Page 28 - Her beauty, which is perfect, will not involve her in any danger; for her virtue will always be supported by the unalterable austerity of her principles. She...
Page 213 - Will not the sentiments of religion be gradually cooled in your breast — the exalted sentiments of a religion which subsists on credulity and enthusiasm...

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