Littell's Living Age, Volume 286Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1915 - Literature |
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... kind from her , so he pursued rather hesitatingly : " Well ... . One can't deny that you have made a masterpiece of her . " And he raised his glasses again and contemplated the marble figure in silence . A few moments later Maryvonne ...
... kind from her , so he pursued rather hesitatingly : " Well ... . One can't deny that you have made a masterpiece of her . " And he raised his glasses again and contemplated the marble figure in silence . A few moments later Maryvonne ...
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... kind of woman . The man you ought to love and marry ought to be a very intellectual man , with a strong character - like yourself . I do not think that you could be happy with a weak - minded individual · a silly , feckless thing of my kind ...
... kind of woman . The man you ought to love and marry ought to be a very intellectual man , with a strong character - like yourself . I do not think that you could be happy with a weak - minded individual · a silly , feckless thing of my kind ...
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... kind . Pomm and his adopted daughter had decided to stay till over Christmas in London , in spite of the failure of the original object of their visit . They both declared themselves entirely de- lighted with their London stay , and now ...
... kind . Pomm and his adopted daughter had decided to stay till over Christmas in London , in spite of the failure of the original object of their visit . They both declared themselves entirely de- lighted with their London stay , and now ...
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... - stinct has turned against making chil- dren a party to secrets of any kind . They are a burden peculiarly unfitted for children . These are special cases . With most persons the art of keeping a secret is at a 54 Secret Communications .
... - stinct has turned against making chil- dren a party to secrets of any kind . They are a burden peculiarly unfitted for children . These are special cases . With most persons the art of keeping a secret is at a 54 Secret Communications .
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... kind - that is , Italy could not al- low any other Power to occupy it with- out running the risk of having in the Lower Adriatic a situation similar to that in the upper part of that sea . Consequently , at the present juncture , it ...
... kind - that is , Italy could not al- low any other Power to occupy it with- out running the risk of having in the Lower Adriatic a situation similar to that in the upper part of that sea . Consequently , at the present juncture , it ...
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Page 444 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a lamb.' So I piped with merry cheer; 'Piper, pipe that song again.
Page 444 - I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not...
Page 108 - Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Page 600 - Privateering is and remains abolished; 2. The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4.
Page 401 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Page 388 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law — Tho...
Page 297 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Page 607 - March would constitute, were its provisions to be actually carried into effect as they stand, a practical assertion of unlimited belligerent rights over neutral commerce within the whole European area, and an almost unqualified denial of the sovereign rights of the nations now at peace.
Page 444 - Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped: he wept to hear. "Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!" So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. "Piper, sit thee down and write In a book, that all may read.
Page 6 - No. 100, of 1863 (Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field), and to have been decided in favor of the permanency of these regulations.