The Pardoner's WalletHoughton, Mifflin, 1905 - 287 pages |
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... difference in reading the serial whether I begin with Saturday's chapter and read back- ward toward Monday , or should the tale be read as the chapters appear ? " The editor assures his subscriber that the story is of such uniform ...
... difference in reading the serial whether I begin with Saturday's chapter and read back- ward toward Monday , or should the tale be read as the chapters appear ? " The editor assures his subscriber that the story is of such uniform ...
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... difference . It is just this difference which the majority of people will not see . They make no distinction between one who deliberately of- fends against the eternal verities and one who accidentally tramples upon a temporary verity ...
... difference . It is just this difference which the majority of people will not see . They make no distinction between one who deliberately of- fends against the eternal verities and one who accidentally tramples upon a temporary verity ...
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Samuel McChord Crothers. so differed from them that they loved him amidst the differences . He was a peaceable man and promoted Peace . ” It was in 1773 that this good man died in the odor of sanctity . It is quite incidentally that we ...
Samuel McChord Crothers. so differed from them that they loved him amidst the differences . He was a peaceable man and promoted Peace . ” It was in 1773 that this good man died in the odor of sanctity . It is quite incidentally that we ...
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... difference not to be arbitrated by reason . If the Emperor could not understand the gastronomic limitations to the Chancellor's patriotism , neither could the Chan- cellor enter into the Emperor's anxieties , as he economized for the ...
... difference not to be arbitrated by reason . If the Emperor could not understand the gastronomic limitations to the Chancellor's patriotism , neither could the Chan- cellor enter into the Emperor's anxieties , as he economized for the ...
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... difference between the Stoics and the Epicureans . The Stoics were described succinctly as " those who denied the liberty of the will . " Just what this might mean was not clear , but it had an ugly sound . The Stoics were evidently ...
... difference between the Stoics and the Epicureans . The Stoics were described succinctly as " those who denied the liberty of the will . " Just what this might mean was not clear , but it had an ugly sound . The Stoics were evidently ...
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Popular passages
Page 131 - And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould ; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
Page 166 - The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble.
Page 57 - When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
Page 279 - The lion would not leave her desolate, But with her went along, as a strong guard Of her chaste person, and a faithful mate Of her sad troubles and misfortunes hard; Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward; And, when she waked, he waited diligent...
Page 138 - I have felt with my native land, I am one with my kind, I embrace the purpose of God, and the doom assign'd.
Page 137 - Why do they prate of the blessings of Peace? we have made them a curse, Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own; And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone?
Page 250 - I sat down by the wayside of life, like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees, until no exit appeared possible, through the entangling depths of my obscurity.
Page 174 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Page 175 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Page 123 - And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable ; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.